William Grant "Bill" Moggridge

21.09.2012

He was quoted as saying, "If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things."

Inventions & achievements• William Grant "Bill" Moggridge was a British designer, author and

educator who cofounded the design company IDEO with David Kelley and Mike Nuttall, as all four firms merged into one and was director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York

• He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline (he is given credit for coining the term)

• He designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass 1101

• In October 2006, Moggridge published Designing Interactions. He followed this in October, 2010 with Designing Media, another compilation of more than 35 interviews with experts in various media, new and old, including Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Tim Westergren, Ira Glass, Craig Newmark, Hans Rosling, and DJ Spooky

Key milestones in Bill Moggridge’s life

Designer and thinkerHe was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline

“Our intuition, our ability to feel, our ability to

understand without being able to explain. All of

those things are relatively subjective in

subconscious. And what design does is to harness

those attributes in the process.”

Bill Moggridge’s influence – The Communicator

In addition to teaching

undergraduate courses in the

Mechanical Engineering

Department's Design Division, Bill Moggridge was a popular mentor and adviser to

graduate students

The first laptop PC

IDEO

Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2010