Bill Moggridge

William Grant Moggridge, RDI (25 June 1943 – 8 September 2012) was a British industrial designer and co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO. He helped design what was arguably the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass. He was in favour of user-centered design process in product development cycles and also worked towards popularizing interaction design as a mainstream discipline.

Moggridge was the author of Designing Interactions, published in October 2006. 

He was also involved in design education in the United Kingdom and the United States; teaching at the Royal College of Art, the London Business School and Stanford University.

References

 Designing Interactions  - book home page
 Talk at the Innvovationsforum Interactiondesign,  Germany 2007

Category:1943 births
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Category:British designers