Director-at-Large, Peter Morville
Peter Morville is widely recognized as a founder of the information architecture field. His best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (co-authored with Louis Rosenfeld) has sold over 120,000 copies and was named “Best Internet Book of 1998” by Amazon. Peter’s latest book, Ambient Findability explores search, wayfinding, literacy, authority, and culture at the crossroads of ubiquitous computing and the Internet.
As Chief Executive Officer of Argus Associates (1994-2001), Peter helped build one of the world’s most respected information architecture firms, serving clients such as AT&T, California Digital Library, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Vanguard and the Weather Channel. As President of Semantic Studios, Peter continues to consult with corporations, libraries, universities, and nonprofits to improve the information architecture of their systems.
Peter is a founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute, a professional association serving 1400 members in 80 countries. Peter has served on several advisory boards including the group charged with revising the ANSI/NISO Z39.19 standard for monolingual controlled vocabularies. In 2007, Peter was honored by AIIP with the Roger Summit Award for inspiring work in the information industry.
Since 1994, he has delivered over 150 seminars and keynotes at conferences in Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America, and has lectured at leading institutions including Harvard Business School and Denmark’s Royal School of Library and Information Science. Peter’s work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The Economist, NPR, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter holds a master’s degree in library and information studies from the University of Michigan’s School of Information.