Bill Moggridge |
Bill Moggridge is the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Bill designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.
A Royal Designer for Industry, Bill pioneered interaction design and is one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. He has been a trustee of the Design Museum in London, Visiting Professor in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art and Consulting Associate Professor in the design program at Stanford University. He served as Congress Chair for CONNECTING'07, the Icsid/IDSA World Design Congress held in San Francisco in October 2007. He was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Awards in 2009. His first book Designing Interactions tells the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives.
