Listen to Harold Hambrose as he discusses concepts from the book with Traders Nation host Kurt Schemers. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Table of Contents
July 27th, 2009
Take a peek at the Table of Contents from Wrench in the System: Check back next week for an excerpt from Chapter 1, It’s Just a Product!
Advance Praise from Denise Scott Brown
July 10th, 2009
“Making computer information easily available to people in their work can help organizations meet their most important goals. This book recommends adopting traditional methods and procedures of design to do so, and suggests that turning data into accessible information could be a high calling for designers now. I wish we designers were as wise asRead More »
Advance Praise from Tony Pizi
July 9th, 2009
“During the short history of computing, interface design has usually been neglected, resulting in software that is cumbersome and counter-intuitive. In this book, Harold Hambrose calls for design where “Help” is helpful and where clutter is eliminated. He describes a set of common-sense principles and asserts the essential place of design in superior products. TogetherRead More »
Advance Praise from Alan Siegel
July 8th, 2009
“Look to Harold Hambrose to make significant contributions to safer health care records through interface design, product design, and data visualization. Wrench in the System should be the bible for corporate executives striving to gain a competitive advantage in these trying times.” — Alan Siegel / Chairman and CEO, Siegel+Gale
No matter how you cut it, an assembly of displays presenting data and application features represents a product. As a product, SaaS (Software as a Service) applications possess a certain physical form that either enhances or inhibits a human end user’s ability to perform a certain task.
A Call for Participation
July 7th, 2009
I just want to put out a quick call for participation to everyone. I am going to be posting my thoughts about design and business to this site periodically, in hopes of starting a conversation about the topics in the book. But the beauty of a blog is that it needn’t be one-sided. I hopeRead More »
Foreword by Dan Boyarski Professor, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University 256 pages, plus Index Illustrated with 150 photographs and diagrams, including more than 100 in full color ISBN 13: 978-0-470-41343-2