Peter Morville
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Peter Morville is author of Ambient Findability (ISBN 0-596-00765-5, AKA "the Lemur Book"), co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (ISBN 978-0596527341, AKA "the Polar Bear Book"), and principal of Semantic Studios.
Peter was also a co-founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute.[1]
[edit] Biography
Peter Morville was born in Manchester, England.
He has a graduate degree in Library and Information Science, and built on the organization of information practices of this domain, going beyond it to find a way to put some useful order in Web sites.
In December 1993 he graduated from the library school at The University of Michigan.
Together with Louis Rosenfeld he headed Argus Associates, the consulting firm which was at the forefront of the nascent field of information architecture until its demise following the Dot-com bust of 2001.
Peter Morville is now President and Founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture, user experience design, and findability consulting firm.
Peter teaches at the University of Michigan.
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[edit] External links
- Peter Morville — Userati
- Semantic Studios (Morville's consulting firm)
- Interview with Peter Morville (2005)
