Bill Moggridge
Educator, Organization founder
1943 – 2012
Who was Bill Moggridge?
William Grant "Bill" Moggridge, RDI was a British designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO 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. Among his achievements, he designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass, was honoured for Lifetime Achievement from the National Design Awards, and given the Prince Philip Designers Prize. 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."
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1943
London - Also known as
- William Grant Moggridge
- William Grant "Bill" Moggridge, RDI
- Spouses
- Karin Moggridge
(1965 - 2012/09/08)
- Karin Moggridge
- Children
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
Industrial design
(1962 - 1965)
- Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
- Employment
- Co-Founder, IDEO
- Director, Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Died
- Sep 8, 2012
San Francisco
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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