Bill Moggridge

Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge at CIID in June 2010
Born
William Grant Moggridge[1]

(1943-06-25)25 June 1943[1]
London, England
Died8 September 2012(2012-09-08) (aged 69)[2]
San Francisco, California, US
NationalityEnglish
Alma materCentral Saint Martins College of Arts and Design
Occupation(s)Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Cofounder and Fellow, IDEO
Years active1965–2012
SpouseKarin Moggridge[3]
ChildrenAlex Moggridge and Eric Moggridge[3]
RelativesHenry William Lawrence Moggridge (great nephew)[3]

William Grant Moggridge, RDI (25 June 1943 – 8 September 2012) was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO[4] and was director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.[5] 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). Among his achievements, he designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass,[6] was honoured for Lifetime Achievement from the National Design Awards,[7] and given the Prince Philip Designers Prize.[8][3] 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."[9]

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