23 Facts About Bill Moggridge

Bill Moggridge was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline.

William Grant Bill Moggridge was born in London on June 25,1943, to Helen and Henry Weston Bill Moggridge.

Bill Moggridge studied industrial design from 1962 to 1965 at the Central School of Art and Design, London, in 1965, he went to the US to find opportunities as a designer and landed his first job as a designer for the American Sterilizer Co.

In 1969, Bill Moggridge returned to London to study typography and communications.

In 1969 in London, Bill Moggridge founded his first company, Bill Moggridge Associates, in the top floor of his home.

Bill Moggridge's first industrial design to reach the market was a toaster for Hoover UK in the year 1970.

Bill Moggridge returned to the US in 1979 to open another office, called ID Two, first located in Palo Alto, California.

In 1991, Bill Moggridge became a co-founder of IDEO, with David Kelley and Mike Nuttall, as all four firms merged into one.

Bill Moggridge stayed at IDEO until 2010, when he was named an IDEO Fellow.

In March 2010, Bill Moggridge left IDEO to become director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, the first person to do so without a museum background.

Bill Moggridge died of cancer in a hospice in San Francisco on 8 September 2012.

Bill Moggridge was Congress Chair for CONNECTING'07, the Icsid World Design Congress held in San Francisco, a role that began in 2000 as he led the effort to prepare a bid that was presented at the 2001 Icsid Congress in Seoul, Korea.

In 2001, Bill Moggridge became a steering committee member at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy.

Bill Moggridge had been an advisor to the British government on design education in 1974, and a board member at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

Bill Moggridge was given an honorary doctorate from CCA in San Francisco in 2012.

In FastCompany's October 2011 issue, Bill Moggridge was profiled as a Master of Design, and named one of the 50 Most Influential Designers in America.

Bill Moggridge was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 at the National Design Awards, in a ceremony at the White House, presided over by First Lady Michelle Obama.

In 1988 Bill Moggridge was named a Royal Designer for Industry by the RSA.

Bill Moggridge conducted the interviews, recorded and edited the videos, and designed the book and the book's website.

Bill Moggridge followed this in October 2010 with Designing Media, another compilation of more than 35 interviews with experts in various media, new and old, including Mark Zuckerberg, Chad Hurley, Tim Westergren, Ira Glass, Craig Newmark, Hans Rosling, and DJ Spooky.

Again, Bill Moggridge conducted the interviews, wrote the text, and designed the book and the book's website.

Bill Moggridge is a central figure in Gary Hustwit's 2009 documentary on design, Objectified.

In 2009, Bill Moggridge directed and produced a short film, on YouTube, about Doug Wilde, a Stanford Professor Emeritus who began picking up trash on his daily bike rides up a steep mountain highway.