Media: InfoDesign talks to Lou Rosenfeld

"Louis Rosenfeld: The InfoDesign interview" by Dirk Knemeyer finds Lou bullish in spite of the challenges facing information architecture: 'when we're feeling our most frustrated with our clients, our bosses, our colleagues and peers, and the economic harshness of recent years, we have to remember that this is all new, that levels of consciousness are rising, things are getting better, and that it remains an extremely exciting time to be working as a designer of any stripe.'

And he covers a wide range of topics, including how conferences serve the design community. 'Every year, I encounter more and more people who vent their frustration with the traditional array of professional conferences, many of which seem to be settings for the same people having the same old discussions. More and more designers are instead attending new, cross-disciplinary events, like DUX and DIS. And these are the same people who are organizing local cocktail hours and reading groups that cast the net widely at a local level. If you've seen list postings with subject lines that start "IA/UE/UX/ID cocktail hour in Hoboken this Friday", you know what I mean.

'So whatever you call it, this interdisciplinary movement is growing organically and often locally. I'm hopeful that the traditional professional associations will encourage and participate in it, rather than see it as a threat. DUX and DIS are symbols of that participatory spirit for which we should all be thankful.'

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