Every year, Fluxible provides an opportunity to learn from some of the best people in the UX world. They take time away from their daily business of designing, researching, making, and otherwise willing into existence great experiences, and come to Waterloo Region to share their expertise. This year, we’ll be offering learning opportunities of a different kind — more on that in the weeks and months to come — but for our next speaker announcement we have someone who has been teaching design for decades.

Dan Boyarski is professor and former head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where he has been for 35 years. He teaches courses in typography, information and interaction design, and time-based communication at graduate and undergraduate levels. His interests lie in visualizing complex information, interface and interaction design, and how word, image, sound, and motion may be combined for effective communication. Dan started teaching kinetic typography and motion graphics in 1994 and has continued doing so to this day.

Dan has conducted research for organizations like Samsung, IBM, Nortel, Microsoft, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Center for the Future of Work at CMU. He was involved in early interface design work at the Information Technology Center at CMU, where a campus-wide computer network was developed with IBM in the mid- to late-1980s. In the spring of 1999, the Design Management Institute awarded Dan the Muriel Cooper Prize for “outstanding achievement in advancing design, technology, and communications in the digital environment.”

Stay tuned for details of Dan’s session at Fluxible. Then see if you can get his session onto your schedule, even if it means dropping another class elsewhere…

(And thanks to Ashley Deal for the photo.)