Bill Moggridge

Bill Moggridge at CIID in June 2010

William (Bill) Moggridge, an industrial and interaction designer, is co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO and the current director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. He designed what was the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass. He advocates applying a user-centered design process in product development cycles and also works towards popularizing interaction design as a mainstream discipline.

In 1969 in London, he founded his design firm with a second office in Silicon Valley in 1979 in Palo Alto. In 1974, he advised the British government on design education. He designed the first laptop computer in 1980. In 1991, he created a company called IDEO, Inc., a subsidiary of Steelcase Inc. with David Kelley and Mike Nuttal. Since 1988, he is a Royal Designer for Industry. From 1992 to 1995, he was a trustee of London's Design Museum. In 1993 at London's Royal College of Art, he was a visiting professor. In 2003, he was in Ivrea, Italy as a Steering Committee member for the Interaction Design Institute. Beginning 2005, he is an associate professor at Stanford University in their design program. In 2007, he was the chair for CONNECTING '07 World Design Congress that was held in San Francisco. He was honored with the lifetime achievement award at the National Design Awards at the White House in 2009.

Moggridge is the author of Designing Interactions (ISBN 0-262-13474-8), which was published in October 2006 and named one of the 10 Best Innovation and Design Books of 2006 by BusinessWeek magazine.

He has also been involved in design education internationally; he has taught at the Royal College of Art, the London Business School and Stanford University, and sits on the board at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

Notes

Bill was also awarded the 2010 Prince Philip Designers Prize for his design of what was arguably the first laptop computer, known as the Grid Compass which used the Grid-OS operating system. The Grid Compass was first released in 1982 at a cost of $8,000 and was used on the space shuttle.

References

• Designing Interactions - book home page
• Bio: Bill Moggridge - from the Stanford University Center for Work, Technology & Organization
• Talk at the Innvovationsforum Interactiondesign, Germany 2007
• Members of the Board at CIID
• The RSA: Current Designers for Industry
• National Design Awards 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award