Louis B. Rosenfeld (born c. 1965) is an American information architect, consultant, author and publisher, known as co-author of ''Information Architecture for the World Wide Web''.
Biography
Rosenfeld earned his B.A. in history from the
University of Michigan
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in 1987, and his Master's in
library science
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from the
University of Michigan School of Information
The University of Michigan School of Information (UMSI or iSchool) is the informatics and information science school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It offers baccalaureate, magisterial, and doc ...
in 1990.
Along with
Peter Morville
Peter Morville is president of Semantic Studios, an information architecture and findability consulting firm. He may be best known as an influential figure and "founding father" of information architecture, having coauthored the best-selling book ...
, he was the co-founder of Argus Associates, one of the first firms devoted exclusively to the practice of information architecture. With
Christina Wodtke
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, Rosenfeld founded the
Information Architecture Institute
The Information Architecture Institute (IA Institute or IAI) was a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to advancing and promoting information architecture. The organization, originally known as the Asilomar Institute for Information Archite ...
in 2002 and is a member of its Advisory Board. In 2005 he founded
Rosenfeld Media, a
user experience publishing house. He was also co-founder of the User Experience Network (UXnet)
User Experience Network
(UXnet)
Selected publications
Books:
* Louis Rosenfeld, Morville, Peter, and Jorge Arango. ''Information architecture for the World Wide Web: For the Web and Beyond''. O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2015.
* Louis Rosenfeld. ''Search Analytics for Your Site: Conversation With Your Consumers''. 2011
* Morville, P., Janes, J., Rosenfeld, L., Candido, G. A., Rosenfeld, L. B., & Decandido, G. A. (1999). ''The Internet Searcher's Handbook: Locating Information, People, and Software''. Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc..
Articles, a selection:
* Rosenfeld, Louis.
Moment Prisons, and How to Escape Them
" ''Medium'' (2019).
* Rosenfeld, Louis.
Seeing the Elephant: Defragmenting User Research
" ''A List Apart'' (2013).
* Rosenfeld, Louis. "Information architecture: looking ahead." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science and technology'' 53.10 (2002): 874-876.
* Janes, Joseph W., and Louis B. Rosenfeld. "Networked information retrieval and organization: Issues and questions." ''Journal of the American Society for Information Science'' 47.9 (1996): 711-715.
References
External links
Rosenfeld's personal site
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Information architects
Web developers
Computer programmers
American technology writers
University of Michigan School of Information alumni
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni