William Grant "Bill" Moggridge was a British designer, author, and educator who co-founded IDEO design company and served as director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He pioneered a human-centered approach to design and is credited with coining the term "interaction design." Some of his accomplishments include designing the first laptop computer, publishing two books on design, and advocating that interaction design be a mainstream design discipline.

1. William Grant "Bill" Moggridge
21.09.2012

2. Key milestones in Bill Moggridge’s life
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
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."

3. Designer and thinker
He 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.”

4. 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

5. The first laptop PC

6. IDEO

7. Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2010