William Grant Moggridge was an English designer, author and educator who lived from 1943 to 2012, cofounded the design company IDEO and directed the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centered approach in design and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline, and he is given credit for coining the term together with Bill Verplank. Among his achievements he designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass, and he was honored with a Lifetime Achievement award from the National Design Awards.
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William Grant Moggridge, RDI (25 June 1943-8 September 2012) was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.
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he designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass
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