It’s prettier than I thought it would be. Holding the book in my hands is a little surreal. It’s not totally unlike seeing some software product you have worried and slaved over finally shipped in shrink wrap and sitting on a shelf. The more I think about it, the more excited I am.
I talked with Armando Roggio at Practical Ecommerce today about the purpose of the book and some of the ideas that are in it. He’ll be posting an article and even some audio about that discussion. E-commerce and online travel is where I cut my teeth as a designer. I think that there are a lot of parallels between application design and what needs to happen on an e-commerce site in order to achieve better user experience.
Check out the article, complete with an audio interview.