Louis Rosenfeld
Principal, Rosenfeld Media
Lou Rosenfeld is Rosenfeld Media’s founder and publisher. Like many user experience folk, Lou started somewhere (library science), made his way somewhere else (information architecture), and has ended up in an entirely different place (publishing and conference curation). Lou spent much of his career in information architecture consulting, first as founder of the groundbreaking IA agency Argus Associates and later as an independent consultant, helping clients like Ford, Paypal, Caterpillar, and the CDC untangle their information problems. He co-founded the Information Architecture Institute, the User Experience Network, and a variety of conferences including The DesignOps Summit, Advancing Research, and the Information Architecture Summit. Lou has edited or co-authored five books, including the IA “bible,” Information Architecture for the Web and Beyond, now in its fourth edition.
Rosenverse talks by Louis:

"There were people who had much more complexity than I did to manage."
10 Years of Enterprise UX: Reflecting on the community and the practice
June 18, 2025

"We are attempting to make this smarter while ensuring quality and scope."
GenAI for UXers: A Rosenbot Demo and Discussion
June 11, 2025

"Today we're focused on resilience."
Day 1 Welcome
September 23, 2024

"Designers can visualize important ideas and help communicate the urgency of climate action."
Three Key Climate Initiatives and How You Can Help
September 11, 2024

"This is not perfect, but for UX and product content, this might be the best thing there is at this point."
Coffee with Lou #4: Taking a Peek Under the Rosenbot's Hood
June 14, 2024

"The Rosen bot can give you access to curated content, not garbage from the internet."
The Rosenbot and the Rosenverse: An AMA with Lou Rosenfeld
June 5, 2024

"It's a good thing to ask yourself... am I getting what I want from this conference?"
Day 2 Welcome
June 5, 2024

"We want to create an event where there is connective tissue across those talks."
Day 1 Welcome
June 4, 2024

"A small idea can grow into something larger over time."
Coffee with Lou #3: What Makes for a Successful UX Conference Presentation?
May 2, 2024

"We could not do this conference without our sponsors"
Opening Remarks Day 2
March 26, 2024

"Every talk is gonna have a pinned talk with a person's face on it."
Opening Remarks Day 1
March 25, 2024

"The research we do needs to include how various bots can help each other."
Three Years Out: Perspectives on the Near-Term Future of User Research
March 15, 2024

"There's a need for different perspectives on important topics, even if similar titles already exist."
Coffee with Lou: Should You Write a (UX) Book?
March 7, 2024

"The most interesting things are in the intersections of UX and other fields."
Coffee with Lou
January 11, 2024

"The field has been resilient through these recent years."
Welcome
January 8, 2024

"If you have a question, please push it over into the help channel."
Opening Remarks
November 29, 2023

"Finding a community of fellow travelers can provide support and motivation in climate work."
Do you want to work on climate? (Climate UX Discussion Series)
November 15, 2023

"The next level will be using LLMs to interpret existing documentation and serve it up meaningfully."
How AI will Change DesignOps Tooling
October 3, 2023

"It's important for you to put your question in the thread associated with the talk."
Opening Remarks
October 2, 2023

"We are all better together"
Welcome / Housekeeping
June 7, 2023

"Together, you might manage to get that very large stone up and over the steep hill."
Welcome / Housekeeping
June 6, 2023

"If you have been to all four conferences, why don't you go ahead and say so in the chat window?"
Opening Remarks
March 27, 2023

"You'll hear about our team’s 15 year evolution from employing UX as a new process to making it central to product development"
Founder’s Welcome
December 6, 2022

"My advice? Pace yourself; it's not as fast as you think it is."
Becoming a Civic Designer: Making the Move from Private to Public Sector
November 17, 2022

"Civic design is really just a highly polished snapshot of a conversation that a community of practice is having."
Opening Remarks
November 16, 2022

"You are 613 people from so many parts of the planet that it's astounding."
Welcome
September 8, 2022

"{"quote":"Look, this is what the data is indicating."}"
The Bigger Picture: A Panel Discussion
October 23, 2019

"In design, conflict needs to be facilitated safely to draw out diverse perspectives."
Discussion: What Operations can teach DesignOps
November 6, 2017