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Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69
« on: September 10, 2012, 08:12:16 PM »
Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69; computer used by military, NASA in 1980s
By Associated Press, Published: September 9


NEW YORK — Bill Moggridge, a British industrial designer who designed an early portable computer with the flip-open shape that is common today, has died. He was 69.

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum said Moggridge, its director since 2010, died on Saturday from cancer.

Moggridge is credited with the design of the Grid Compass, a computer that had a keyboard and yellow-on-black display that sold for $8,150 when it was released in 1982. It was encased in magnesium and seen as rugged, and was used by the U.S. military.

The computer made its way into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1985.

Although there were many portable computers being developed around that time, Grid Systems Corp. won the patent for the clamshell design with the foldable screen hinged toward the back of the machine, said Alex Bochannek, a curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

Moggridge pushed for this foldable design when it was realized the flat-panel screen, keyboard and circuitry could all fit snugly together.

“In terms of the industrial design of the enclosure, Moggridge was instrumental in proposing that,” Bochannek said. “He came up with that particular form factor.”

Until that point, portable computers resembled portable sewing machines that weighed more than 20 pounds and had a big handle, he said.

It was after using the machine that Moggridge’s ideas about design began to change, Bochannek said. His work began to focus more on how people interacted with devices, rather than just making sure they were enclosed well.

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Re: Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2012, 08:19:33 PM »




William Grant "Bill" Moggridge RDI (June 25, 1943 – September 8, 2012) was a British-born designer, author, and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National 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 (he is given credit for coining the term). Among his achievements, he designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass, was honored for Lifetime Achievement from the National Design Awards[5], and given the Prince Philip Designers Prize. --Wiki

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Re: Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2012, 08:26:44 PM »
Moggridge draws a fascinating parallel between design and science, echoing the idea that intuition is essential to both scientific discovery and creativity:

Every scientist is an intuitive person, and most ‘ahas’ come from intuition anyway. And we all know that we fall in love with things and that we’re interested in subjective qualitative values. It’s just whether you recognize it as having something that you can use in a respective environment or a respectable sense.

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« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2012, 08:27:09 PM »
Ultimately, and perhaps precisely because it requires this kind of abstract knowledge and combinatorial creativity, Moggridge frames design as a form of intelligence:

I really don’t think you’re going to understand design and art until you understand intelligence [and how the brain works]. So you can dent it, you can sort of make things so there are interesting insights and will help people, and you can explain process, but you can’t really, truly expect to explain design unless you explain intelligence.

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Re: Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2012, 08:28:00 PM »
He leaves us with a seemingly simple but infinitely important reminder, wrapped in a hope for better design writing and education:

So few people seem to realize that everything’s designed. And until we get some good people telling the story, that’s probably going to continue to be the case. So I’d love it if there was a consciousness in the public mind that mathematics and reading and writing is not enough — you also need to learn how to do design. Because everything is designed, and the way our world exists around us depends on how well it’s designed. -- http://www.brainpickings.org/

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Re: Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69
« Reply #7 on: September 10, 2012, 08:34:51 PM »
hi hubag  :-*

Greetings, my esteemed friend.

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Re: Early laptop designer Bill Moggridge dies at 69
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2012, 09:32:53 PM »
After laptop, what will come next?

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