Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge founded his design firm in 1969 in London and added a second office a decade later in Palo Alto, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. He designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass, and pioneered interaction design as a discipline. In 1991, he merged his company with those of David Kelley and Mike Nuttall to form IDEO.
Bill has been active in design education throughout his career, notably as a visiting professor in interaction design at the Royal College of Art in London and a consulting associate professor in the design program at Stanford University. He is most interested in what people want, who they are, and how they interact with other people, things, and places. His book, Designing Interactions, is available from The MIT Press and was named one of the 10 Best Innovation and Design Books of 2006 by BusinessWeek.
Bill is currently the Director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York.
Speaking engagements:
July 2009, Bill Moggridge received a National Design Award, sponsored by the Cooper-Hewitt. His lifetime achievement award was presented by Michelle Obama at a White House luncheon.
July 2009, "The Future of Technology and Sustainability," (with Design Mind winner Amory Lovins) Design X Tomorrow: The Future of Technology and Sustainability, Washington D.C.
September 2008, PICNIC Green Challenge, juror
July 2008, “Design Research for Sustainability” at the “Changing the Change” conference in Turin, keynote
July 2008, “Designing Media,” Stanford Professional Publishing Course, faculty member and speaker
June 2008, CNBC TV Interview, London
May 2008, Swiss Silicon Valley Association Tour, guest speaker
May 2008, “Play” at Nexon, Seoul
May 2008, “Reaching for the Intuitive,” International Design Culture Conference, Seoul, keynote
May 2008, “Innovation through Design,” Korean Society of Science of Design, Seoul
April 2008, “Innovation by Design,” Creative Company Conference, Amsterdam
April 2008, IDSA RISD lecture, Rhode Island, lecturer
March 2008, Service Design Symposium, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, keynote
March 2008, “Design Research,” Design Academy, Eindhoven
March 2008, “Design Research,” Politecnico di Milano
March 2008, Meet the Media Guru lecture series and Executive Lunch and Round Table, Mediateca, Milan
March 2008, “Complexity,” Danmarks Designskole
February 2008, “Complexity,” Design Indaba conference, Capetown
February 2008, HP CIRCLE Awards, judge
December 2007, “Culture of Innovation,” Projecting Design 2007, Santiago
December 2007, “Design Thinking,” University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
November 2007, “Design Thinking,” Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver
October 2007, Chair and MC of “Connecting’07,” Icsid/IDSA World Design Congress, San Francisco
August 2007, “Design Thinking,” Image Space Object conference, Denver
July 2007, “Design Thinking in the Business World,” Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Seattle
June 2007, Presentations about Apple design at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, moderator
June 2007, “The Design of Business” Innovation Forum, London
June 2007, “Designing Interactions,” Said Business School, Oxford
June 2007, “Breakfast discussion at the DBA,” Design Business Association, London
June 2007, “Designing Interactions,” RSA (Royal Society of the Arts), London
June 2007, Interaction design discussion with Gillian Crampton Smith, Design Museum, London
June 2007, “Design Thinking,” Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
June 2007, “Sustainable Housing & Water,” World House Interdesign, Toronto
May 2007, “Designing Interactions,” Universidad Bonatera Innova Conference, Aguascalientes
May 2007, “Design Methodology and the User Experience,” Korea Global Marketing Conference, Seoul
April 2007, “Ease of Use,” SmartSilvers Alliance, Palo Alto
April 2007, “Designing Interactions,” eBay Speaker Series, San Jose
April 2007, @issue Conference, San Francisco, guest speaker
April 2007, “Reaching for the Intuitive,” CHI2008 (Computer/Human Interaction) Conference, San Jose, keynote
March 2007, “Future of Design,” GD@40 UArts, Philadelphia
March 2007, “Design and Intuition,” MIT Media Lab, Cambridge
March 2007, “Invention and Innovation,” MIT HCI Seminar, Cambridge
March 2007, “Designing Interactions,” Innovation Forum, Potsdam
February 2007, “Designing Interactions,” Stanford Computer Science Seminar
February 2007, Laudatio for Dieter Rams, Recipient of German Design Award, Frankfurt
February 2007, ID Magazine Award Issue, New York, judge
February 2007, HP CIRCLE Awards, Palo Alto, judge
January 2007, “Designing Interactions,” Oracle speaker series, San Mateo
January 2007, “Technation” Public Radio Interview
December 2006, “Integrating Ergonomics for Successful Design Innovation,” National Ergonomics Conference, Las Vegas
December 2006, Business Week Podcast, Interview with Jessie Scanlon
December 2006, Design Council Round Table, London
December 2006, “Designing Interactions,” Microsoft Research visiting speaker series, Redmond
November 2006, “Designing Interactions,” Taipei Design Center
November 2006, “The Power of Design,” Advantech, Taipei
November 2006, “It’s Getting so Complicated,” Georgia Tech, Atlanta
November 2006, “People & Prototypes,” Business of Design Week 2006, Hong Kong, keynote
November 2006, “People & Prototypes,” China Industrial Designers Association, Shanghai
October 2006, “Simplicity,” Yahoo, Sunnyvale
September 2006, “Strategic Innovation,” Stanford Center for Professional Development
September 2006, “The Human Element,” IDSA Conference, Austin
July 2006, “Design in the Retail Sector,” Centro Metropolitano de Disegno Conference, Buenos Aires
May 2006, Swiss Silicon Valley Association Tour, guest speaker
March 2006, ASEE EDI Conference, San Francisco, panelist
January 2006, “Space Matter,” Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
October 2005, Design Biennale, Gwangju, keynote
September 2005, “Industrial Design Heavyweights,” SFMOMA
April 2005, “Two Icons, Two Perspectives, One Conversation: Bill Moggridge and Yves Behar,” San Jose Museum of Art
April 2005, UpNext, Art Center Media Design Program showcase
March 2005, “Technology, Furniture, and Environments,” IIDA Pioneers of the Industry
November 2004, “What Do They Want?” Computer History Museum
September 2004, ASTC Annual Conference
March 2004, International DOM Conference
September 2003, Grand Masters of Design panelist, ICSID Design Congress
August 2003, “Designing Technology for People,” MIT Media Lab
April 2003, AIGA Chicago Incite/Insight series
June 2002, “Interviews with Interaction Designers,” DIS202 Conference, keynote
July 2002, IDSA National Conference
Published works:
April 2008, Webby Award, Designinginteractions.com, Education category
May/June 2007, MIT Technology Review
January 2007, “Of Mice and Multimedia,” Newsweek.com
2006, Designing Interactions, MIT Press
December 2006, “Thoughts of a Design Pioneer,” BusinessWeek
November-December 1998, cover interview, AXIS magazine