The folks at Kent State know where to get top notch talent: north. Despite calling Ohio home these days, the good professor (we've not yet confirmed if he's nutty) hails from Canada. Given his research into the messiness of information in every day life, we'll be sure to print all the conference signage in our finest block letters so as to avoid becoming a case study.

Karl Fast

Karl Fast is a professor of User Experience Design at Kent State University. He studies how we think by interacting with the world around us, and what this means for designing the digital future. He is a founding member of the Information Architecture Institute.

web: about.me/karlfast
twitter: @karlfast

Stay tuned for further announcements about additional speakers and details of Karl’s session at Fluxible.