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 1-56592-282-4, AKA "the Polar Bear Book"), and principal of Semantic Studios.

Peter was also a co-founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute (see the founders page).

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Peter Morville was born in Manchester, England.

Basically a librarian, with a graduate degree in Library and Information Science, he 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 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 and user experience consulting firm.

Peter is co-author (with Louis Rosenfeld) of the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, distinguished as the "Best Internet Book of 1998" by Amazon.com and called "The Most Useful Book on Web Design on the Market" by Jakob Nielsen. The book is now in its second edition, having grown from 202 to 461 pages.

Peter writes the Semantics Column, serves as curator of findability.org, teaches at the University of Michigan, and offers seminars and workshops on Information Architecture & Findability.