Bill Moggridge became the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York at the end of March this year. Bill has many credits to his name: as well as being a Royal Designer for Industry since 1988, he was honored with the lifetime achievement award at the National Design Awards at the White House in 2009.
Among the many milestones in Bill’s career, he designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, in 1980 and co-founded the iconic IDEO in 1991and went on to develop that company’s interdisciplinary design approach globally. Bill advocates the importance of user-centered design and of teaching design to kids from an early age. He is working on a book due out in fall 2010, Designing Media, which examines the connections between traditional mainstream media and the emerging digital realm.
You can read Bill’s full bio here. Visit Bill’s blog at http://blog.cooperhewitt.org/Bills-Blog.
