OVERVIEW

Larry Constantine is a designer and design methodologist who is happiest when he is pushing the boundaries of the possible. He likes to think of himself as a problemsolver who brings to his work a mix of engineering discipline and creative passion, blending bold departures from convention with dogged attention to detail. An awardwinning designer, he prefers collaboration to isolation and is a true believer in the power of interdisciplinary teamwork. His forte is producing breakthrough designs under pressure, particularly for complex, critical applications, such as medical informatics, industrial automation, and programming tools, where dependable and efficient user performance is absolutely essential.

An innovative thinker who has been questioning received wisdom and challenging standard operating procedure since his student days at M.I.T., he has contributed original concepts and techniques in both software engineering and user interface design and holds numerous patents. Drawing on an eclectic background in management, psychotherapy, and software engineering, he has spent most of his career working in the borderlands between disciplines where the people and the technical issues commingle in messy combination.

Although he is a prolific author with over 150 papers and 17 books in several disciplines to...