Lou Rosenfeld

Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant, and founder and publisher of Rosenfeld Media, a publishing house focused on user experience books. He has been instrumental in helping establish the fields of information architecture and user experience, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within those fields.

Lou served as Argus' president from 1994-2001. Named a "Technology Pioneer" by Crain's Detroit Business, Lou has consulted for such organizations as Accenture, AT&T, Caterpillar, the Centers for Disease Control, Ford, and Microsoft.

With Peter Morville, Lou co-authored the best-selling book,Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (O'Reilly, 1998; second edition, 2002; third edition, 2006), Amazon.com's "Best Internet Book of 1998." With over 100,000 in sales, it has been acclaimed as a classic and is used as a standard text in many graduate-level classes. Lou has contributed regular columns for CIO, Internet World and Web Review magazines, and has written and edited numerous other books, chapters, and scholarly articles.

Lou has participated heavily in efforts to coalesce the information architecture and user experience communities. He is co-founder and past board member of the IAI, the Information Architecture Institute, the sole professional organization of information architects. Lou played a leading role in organizing and programming the first three information architecture conferences (the 2000 and 2001 ASIS&T Summits and ACIA 2000) and continues to serve on the Summit's program committee. He is co-founder and current president ofUXnet, an organization that supports cooperation and collaboration among UX-related organizations and individuals. And Lou serves or has served on advisory boards for theContent Management Professionals group, the AIGA Experience Design Community, and the Interaction Design Association, andUX Matters magazine.

Lou holds a Masters in Information and Library Studies and a B.A. in History, both from The University of Michigan. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Mary Jean Babic, and their children, Iris and Nate.