A career in one word?

When the DBA asked Bill Moggridge to describe his career in one word he uses the word ‘people’.

Biography

Bill Moggridge is co-founder of IDEO, independently ranked by business leaders as one of the most innovative companies in the world.

A Royal Designer for Industry, Bill designed the world’s first laptop computer, the GriD Compass Computer.

He pioneered interaction design and was one of the first people to integrate human factors in to the design of software and hardware. His telephone and computer designs have been used in countries all over the world.

He has been a trustee of the Design Museum; Visiting Professor in Interaction Design at the Royal College of Art in London, Lecturer in Design at the London Business School and a member of the Steering Committee for the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy.

He is currently Consulting Associate Professor in the Joint Program in Design at Stanford University. His book Designing Interactions(www.designinginteractions.com) tells the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives; it is available from The MIT Press.