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Bill Moggridge will present a public lecture, Thursday, November 8, 2007, at 7pm in the Lecture Hall 301 SB.

Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer, is co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm 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. He pioneered interaction design and is one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. 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 tells the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives; it is available from The MIT Press.

Official Website: http://www.eciad.ca/node/1007

Added by jmv on October 18, 2007