Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a book-signing event at Adaptive Path's UXWeek 2006. The book was very well-received, and I met a lot of great people, all with interesting perspectives on documentation. I did a 45-minute presentation on Tuesday to provide an overview of the book.

This week, an excerpt from Communicating Design appears in Digital Web magazine. If you're thinking about buying the book, take a look at the excerpt, which is from the chapter on competitive analyses. It does a good job illustrating the kind of discussion in the first half of each chapter.

More than two months after the original ship date, Communicating Design will finally be on shelves the last week in August.

When I received my advance copy, eagle-eye Becky Melzer noticed that page 248 had been swapped with one of the index pages. I mentioned this to the publisher, and they ordered another print run. It was clearly the printer's fault, because the proofs did not contain this error.

The printer, however, has taken a month and a half to fix the problem. I reported the issue via email to my publisher on July 13. This whole business has me wondering if I should have reported it in the first place: somehow, I think my audience would have been fine downloading a PDF of the missing page. It would have been in their hands a LOT faster. In this day and age, it seems like it's more important to get it out there with a few dots missing from the I's.

I'm grateful to all the people who have emailed me to tell me they're excited for the book to come out. Thank you for your patience and your support.