The first copy of Designing the Moment has just been delivered into my very eager hands!

If you haven’t yet ordered a copy, now would be a great time to do so, because copies should be on their way to the Amazon warehouse any minute now, able to be delivered to you very soon.

In case you miss the acknowledgments, I’d like to take a moment to thank my amazing editor, Wendy Sharp. Wendy is an absolute genius and it has been a great honor to work with her on not one, but two books. And, of course, thanks so much to the New Riders team, who is always extremely supportive and wonderful to work with. I’m already looking forward to the next book!

Buy Designing the Moment from Amazon today!

Be the first kid on your block to read an excerpt from my newest book, Designing the Moment.

For your enjoyment, I’ve posted a PDF (487kb) that includes the Introduction, Table of Contents, and chapter 13, “Nailing Form Layout”.

Just go here and click “Download the sample chapter!”

This is officially the first time anyone outside of New Riders has been able to read any part of the book, so I can’t wait to hear your feedback. If you like it, drop me a line. If you don’t, tell me that, too.

I look forward to hearing from all of you!

Amidst all the April Fool’s Day fun, which has involved a boatload of rickrolling, you may have missed an important (and legitimate) announcement from my company, Miskeeto.

Specifically, Jakob Nielsen—the man, the myth, the legend—recently joined forces with the Miskeeto team to conduct a research project that has culminated in the seminal report, “Web 2.0: 99% bad”.

As designers, researchers, and usability professionals, we have grown increasingly distraught over the blatant misuse of otherwise wonderful web technologies to emulate the richness of the desktop in interactions ranging from drag-and-drop to entire single-screen applications.

Find out why the rush to go Web 2.0 has led Fortune 500 companies and start-ups alike to break from all practical wisdom and create some of the worst web interfaces in Internet history.

Have you fallen prey to the hype?

Find out if your company made the list. Download the report now (PDF, 1.3MB).