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.