Bill Moggridge
William (Bill) Moggridge (born June 25, 1943 - † September 8, 2012 ), British industrial and interaction designer , was co-founder of IDEO , which executives voted for one of the most innovative companies in the world. Since 2010 he has been director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Career
Bill Moggridge designed what can be described as the world's first laptop , the GRiD Compass 1100 . He is a pioneer of interaction design and one of the first to incorporate human factors into the design of software and hardware . Moggridge was Visiting Professor of Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, Lecturer in Design at the London Business School and Board Member of the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy. He was u. a. Consulting Associate Professor of Design at Stanford University .
Awards
Bill Moggridge received a red dot design award in 1996 as head of the design team of the year (IDEO).
In April 2009, the Cooper Hewitt Museum honored him with the US National Design Award for lifetime achievement. On November 9, 2010, he was awarded the Prince Philip Designers Prize .
Works
- Designing Interactions (on CD-ROM), The MIT Press (October 30, 2006), ISBN 0-262-13474-8
- Designing Media (with DVD), The MIT Press (October 2010), ISBN 0-262-01485-8 .
Web links
- Designing Media - website for the book
- Designing Interactions - website for the book
- Lecture at the Innovation Forum Interactiondesign, Germany 2007
- Bill Moggridge's biography on ideo.com, accessed September 15, 2011
- Werner Pluta: Laptop inventor dies at the age of 69 , obituary on Golem.de , from September 10, 2012, accessed on September 10, 2012
Individual evidence
- ^ Bill Moggridge Appointed Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
- ↑ We need to keep user needs in mind , Technology Review, Interview with Bill Moggridge, May 21, 2007
- ^ NY Times article on the 2009 National Design Awards, April 29, 2009
- ↑ NY Times “At White House, First Lady Honors Design Innovators” on the presentation of the National Design Awards 2009, July 24, 2009
- ^ Prince Philip Designers Prize ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The MIT Press - Designing Media ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moggridge, Bill |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moggridge, William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British industrial designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1943 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 8, 2012 |