I’m not a ra-ra kind of guy, but I’m super excited about this conference.

Information overload is real: we all have too much e-mail, too many websites, and too much information to handle. And the one group of people best suited to help us deal with information overload are designers: the talented people who can make complex things simple, but still powerful.

On Oct 23/24 at the amazing Seattle public library, is a conference about designers succeed at working with complex information spaces, from the web, to software, to museums, to libraries.

Speakers include Bruce Sterling, David Cronin (Cooper), Paul Gould (MAYA), Dan Hill (BBC), Peter Merholz (Adaptive Path), as well as artists, researchers, park rangers (YES!), and more talking about how they do what they do.

It’s a small one track, two day conference at one of most amazing design venues in the world: All for $600. Full Program, Registration, and blog with speaker interviews.

Disclaimer: I’ll be covering the event on my blog and attending as a member of the “press”, as I’ll be interviewing as many people as I can at the conference for the innovation book. Hope to see you there.

(Library photo from Douglas Pearce).