A bunch of stuff happening lately, most about the book and its workshops of course.

First off is a podcast of yours truly being interviewed by Brian Oberkirch talking about interaction design and stuff like designing for hackability.

Next up is a panel with Brian, Kit Seeborg, and Jeremiah Owyang about online participation at Webvisions on the 20-21st of this month in Portland, Oregon.

In August, the book comes out, and with it some interviews, including one in AIGA’s Voice and another from Digital Web magazine. If you’re an academic or reviewer and would like a review copy of the book for evaluation or review, please contact me and I’ll arrange it.

August is also UX Week and the debut of two introductory sections of the all-day Designing for Interaction Workshop: What is Interaction Design? and The Elements, Laws, and Attributes of Interaction Design. Use my discount code and get 15% off: FODS.

You can also use that code when registering for the all-day Designing for Interaction Workshop in San Francisco on September 20th.

The following week, I’ll be Down Under in Sydney, first teaching the all-day workshop at Web Directions on the 26th, then leading/participating in OZ IA, the information architecture retreat/conference on the 30th and October 1. It’s my first time in Australia, and I’m thrilled to be going. Should be a blast.

Now that you know my schedule. I hope to see some of you at one of these events shortly!