Colleague and friend Christian Crumlish publishes a nice review in Extra! Extra!, his company's blog. The review is balanced, leveling a well-deserved critique at my last chapter. For those of your thinking about buying the book (which you should regardless), Christian's review provides a great overview. Excerpt:

I probably learned the most from his discussion of concept models, because I have the least amount of experience preparing these types of documents and I’ve always found them to be somewhat intimidating. He explains how to build them up from granular bits and also helps clarify a number of different approaches to connecting the nodes in such documents. He also includes as an illustration a version of Bryce Glass’s after-the-fact Flickr user model, an instant classic of the form.

Several readers have emailed, asking when I will turn CommunicatingDesign.com into a more comprehensive documentation resource. The answer: SOON! This is, in fact, one of my new year's resolutions, right between drinking less coffee and keeping my closet tidy.

Fortunately, CommunicatingDesign.com did not make Wired's annual vaporware review, but rest assured that I intend to have something up and running in the next couple of months, before the IA Summit in March.

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