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Peachpit Press’s upcoming book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices by Dan Saffer is due to hit the shelves August 2006. It looks like it’s going to be a great read for both junior and senior-level Interaction Designers and Information Architects.

Here is a nice excerpt that made me chuckle:

Interaction design as a formal discipline has been around for less than two decades. It’s a young field, still defining itself and figuring out its place among sister disciplines such as information architecture (IA), industrial design (ID), communication (or graphic) design (CD), user—experience (UX) design, user—interface engineering (UIE), human—computer interaction (HCI), usability engineering (UE), and human factors (HF).

I like this quote because it demonstrates how confusing things can get with so many titles and acronyms floating around — especially when drafting your resume or conducting a job search.

This book contains a number of interviews with experts from the field of Interaction Design, including Larry Tesler, Luke Wroblewski, and Adam Greenfield. Check out some of excerpts from these interviews on the Designing for Interaction book’s web site.