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Karl Fast

Karl Fast

Past roles: speaker and volunteer

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Twitter: @karlfast

Karl Fast is the Director of Information Architecture at Normative, a design innovation studio in Toronto. He specializes in design problems for a world with abundant information, cheap computation, and rich interaction. Karl has been working on internet-based problems and information architecture since 1994 and is a long-time contributor to the IA Summit. He has a PhD in human-information interaction, is a former professor of User Experience Design at Kent State University, and is a founding member of the Information Architecture Institute. He lives with his family in Minneapolis.

Conference talks

  • Designs of the Artificial (2018 Main Conference Talk)
  • Understanding Users through Embodied Cognition (2018 Pre-Conference Workshop)
  • A Tale of Twin Cities: Fireside Chat with Karl Fast and Kristina Halvorson (2015 Main Conference Talk)
  • The Big Challenges of Small Data (2013 Main Conference Talk)
  • Information Overload is an Opportunity (2012 Main Conference Talk)
  • Making Insight: Practical techniques and emerging theories for data analysis (2011 Pre-Conference Workshop)
  • The Architecture of Piles (2010 Main Conference Talk)

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