Bill Moggridge facts for kids
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Bill Moggridge
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Bill Moggridge at CIID in June 2010
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William Grant Moggridge
25 June 1943 London, England
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| Died | 8 September 2012 (aged 69) San Francisco, California, US
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| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design |
| Occupation | Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Cofounder and Fellow, IDEO |
| Years active | 1965–2012 |
| Spouse(s) | Karin Moggridge |
| Children | Alex Moggridge and Eric Moggridge |
| Relatives | Henry William Lawrence Moggridge (great nephew) |
William Grant Moggridge (born June 25, 1943 – died September 8, 2012) was an English designer, writer, and teacher. He helped start a famous design company called IDEO. He also led the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York.
Bill Moggridge was a pioneer in design. This means he was one of the first to use a "human-centred" approach. This idea focuses on how people will use a product. He also helped make "interaction design" a big part of design. He even helped create the term! One of his most famous designs was the first-ever laptop computer, the GRiD Compass. He won many awards for his work. He once said, "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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Early Life and Learning
William Grant Moggridge was born in London, England, on June 25, 1943. His mother, Helen, was an artist. His father, Henry Weston Moggridge, worked for the government.
From 1962 to 1965, Bill studied industrial design. He went to the Central School of Art and Design in London. In 1965, he moved to the United States. He wanted to find work as a designer there. His first job was designing hospital equipment. This was for the American Sterilizer Co. in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1969, Moggridge went back to London. He studied typography and communications.
Designing a Career
Starting His Own Company
In 1969, Bill Moggridge started his first company. It was called Moggridge Associates. He set it up in London, on the top floor of his home. His first product to be sold was a toaster. He designed it for Hoover UK in 1970.
In 1972, he worked on his first computer project. It was a minicomputer for Computer Technology Ltd in the UK. But this computer was never actually made. In 1973, another Hoover UK design, a space heater, was featured on a UK design magazine cover.
Creating ID Two and IDEO
Moggridge moved back to the US in 1979. He opened a new office called ID Two. It was in Palo Alto, California. One of his first big clients was GRiD Systems. For them, he designed what many people call the first laptop computer. It was named the GRiD Compass.
This laptop was special because its screen folded down over the keyboard. This was a new idea that GRiD patented. The GRiD Compass cost about $8,150. It was even used on every Space Shuttle mission from 1983 to 1997!
In 1982, another designer named Mike Nuttall joined ID Two. He worked on another portable computer project. Later, Moggridge also started teaching at Stanford University. There, he met another teacher, David Kelley. David had his own design company.
In 1991, Bill Moggridge became a co-founder of IDEO. This happened when his company, ID Two, merged with David Kelley's and Mike Nuttall's firms. Moggridge worked at IDEO until 2010. After that, he became an IDEO Fellow.
Leading a Design Museum
In March 2010, Moggridge left IDEO. He became the director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. He was the first person to lead the museum without having a background in museums. The Cooper-Hewitt is the only museum in the US focused only on design, both old and new.
Bill Moggridge passed away from cancer on September 8, 2012, in San Francisco.
Teaching and Design Roles
From 1983 to 2010, Moggridge was a professor at Stanford University. He taught in different departments. These included the Product Design Program and the d.school. The d.school is officially called the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.
Moggridge also helped organize a big design conference. It was called CONNECTING'07. This was for the Icsid World Design Congress. He started working on this in 2000.
In 2001, Moggridge joined a committee at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy. He was also a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London in 1993. He was a trustee at the Design Museum in London from 1992 to 1995. He even advised the British government on design education in 1974. He was also a board member at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.
Awards and Honors
Bill Moggridge received many awards for his amazing work:
- In 2014, he was given an AIGA Medal after his death.
- He received an honorary doctorate from CCA in San Francisco in 2012.
- FastCompany magazine called him a "Master of Design" in 2011. They also named him one of the 50 Most Influential Designers in America.
- In 2010, he won the Prince Philip Designers Prize.
- He received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. This was at the National Design Awards. First Lady Michelle Obama presented the award at the White House.
- The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) named Moggridge a Fellow in 2006.
- In 1988, he was named a Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA. This is the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Books He Wrote
In October 2006, Moggridge published a book called Designing Interactions. It was a large book with 764 pages. It introduced and explained the history of interaction design. The book included over 40 interviews with designers and business people. Moggridge did all the interviews himself. He also recorded and edited the videos for the book's DVD. He designed the book and its website too. BusinessWeek called it one of the Best Innovation and Design Books in 2006.
In October 2010, he released another book, Designing Media. This book also had many interviews. He talked to over 35 experts in different types of media. Again, Moggridge did the interviews, wrote the text, and designed the book and its website.
Films and Videos
Moggridge was a main person in a 2009 documentary film. It was about design and called Objectified.
In 2009, Moggridge also directed and produced a short film. It was called Professor Poubelle. The film was about Doug Wilde, a Stanford Professor. Doug started picking up trash on his daily bike rides up a mountain highway.
See also
In Spanish: Bill Moggridge para niños
