Peter Merholz

Peter Merholz is a founding partner, board member, and president of Adaptive Path. For more than seven years, Peter has been instrumental in developing Adaptive Path's ability to provide world-class consulting, training, and public events.

Professional Background

At Adaptive Path, Peter began with a focus on information architecture, and over time expanded his knowledge to include product strategy, user research, and practice development. He has worked with a wide variety of clients from large multi-national companies to smaller, avant-garde firms and start-ups. Past clients include Hallmark, Intel, Wells Fargo, United Airlines, Vanguard Financial.

Additionally, Peter has overseen the evolution of Adaptive Path's events line of business, and remains active in programming. UX Week has become the premier user experience conference, attracting attendees from all over the globe. MX filled an unmet need by establishing a community for managers and directors of user experience.

Peter is an internationally recognized thought leader on user experience. His blogs and his essays for Adaptive Path demonstrate his foresight on issues of information architecture, organizational change, and product strategy. Peter's thought leadership is perhaps most dubiously demonstrated in his coining of the term "blog" in 1999 when it was a nascent genre.

Past Appearances

June 15-17
Peter Merholz will be teaching and speaking at UX London in London, United Kingdom.

April 14
Peter Merholz spoke at the Usability Seminar in Sofia, Bulgaria.

October 21-23, 2007
Peter Merholz presented at Adaptive Path's MX East in Philadelphia, PA.

September 5-6, 2007
Peter Merholz attended d.Construct Conference in Brighton, United Kingdom.

August 13-16, 2007
Peter Merholz spoke at UX Week in Washington, D.C.

July 8-9, 2007
Peter Merholz spoke at Web Design World in Seattle, WA.

May 22, 2007
Peter Merholz spoke at CHI Atlanta in Atlanta, GA.

April 18-19, 2007
Peter Merholz attended Gel 2007 Conference in New York, NY.

April 13, 2007
Peter Merholz presented at the CapCHI Workshop on Web 2.0 in Ottawa, ON.

March 22-26, 2007
Peter Merholz presented at IA Summit 2007 in Las Vegas, NV.

March 9-13, 2007
Peter Merholz presented at SXSW, Interactive in Austin, TX.

February 12-13, 2007
Peter Merholz presented at MX San Francisco in San Francisco, CA.

January 22-23, 2007
Peter Merholz presented at UIE Web App Summit in Monterey, CA.

October 23-24, 2006
Peter Merholz spoke at Idea 2006 in Seattle, WA.

October 10, 2006
Peter Merholz spoke at BayCHI on the Panel: Designing Systems with Emergent Behaviros Palo Alto, CA.

September 28-29, 2006
Peter Merholz spoke at SHIFT in Lisbon, Portugal.

August 14-17, 2006
Peter Merholz spoke at User Experience Week 2006, Washington, D.C.

May 17-18, 2006
Peter Merholz, Beyond Usability 2.0, Chicago, IL

March 23-27, 2006
Peter Merholz, IA Summit, Vancouver, BC Canada

March 10-14, 2006
Peter Merholz, SXSW, Austin, TX

October 31- November 1, 2005
Peter Merholz and Jeffrey Veen, Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience, New York, NY

September 15-18, 2005
Jesse James Garrett and Peter Merholz, AIGA Design Conference, Boston, MA

July 19-20, 2005
Janice Fraser and Peter Merholz, Two-Day Seminar , "Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience", Minneapolis, MN

July 15, 2005
Peter Merholz, WebVisions 2005, Portland, OR

March 17, 2005
Peter Merholz, South by Southwest Interactive, "How to Leverage Solipsism," Austin, TX

March 5, 2005
Peter Merholz, IA Summit 2005, "Content Genres: The Hidden Workhorse of Information Architecture," Montreal, Canada

October 13, 2004
Jeffrey Veen and Peter Merholz, UI9 Conference, "Make Your Content Management System Work For You," Cambridge, MA

October 12, 2004
Peter Merholz, UI9 Conference, "Explicit Design: Designing for Expectations," Cambridge, MA

August 16-20, 2004
Adaptive Path Team, Adaptive Path's User Experience Week 2004, Washington, DC

June 23-24, 2004
Jeffrey Veen and Peter Merholz, Adaptive Path Workshops, "Beyond Usability: Designing the Complete User Experience," Amsterdam, The Netherlands

April 26, 2004
Peter Merholz, Exhibit A: The 2004 Interactive Showcase, "The Exhibit A Forum," Minneapolis, MN

February 29, 2004
Peter Merholz, Fifth Annual ASIS&T Information Architecture Summit, "Then A Miracle Occurs...," Austin, TX

October 17, 2003
Peter Merholz, About, With, and For 2003, Keynote, Chicago, IL

October 15, 2003
Peter Merholz and Indi Young, User Interface 8, "From Construct to Structure: Information Architecture from Mental Models", Cambridge, MA

August 21, 2003
Adaptive Path Workshop: Peter Merholz, The Business of User Experience, "Metrics for Success", Washington, DC