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William Moggridge, interior decorator of the modern laptop

Wiliam "Bill" Moggridge is the military personnel responsible for designing the folding screen and clamshell intent of the modern laptop.

The pioneering industrial fashion designer passed away last weekend at the age of 69.

Moggridge invented the belief of (and coined the term) interaction design—the approximation that computer software and hardware and other products should be designed to satisfy people's needs and desires.

Atomic number 2 also co-based the renowned interactive pattern firm IDEO, which continues to champion human-centred design. "If there's a simple, easy principle that binds everything together," Moggridge says, "it's probably about starting with the people."

Background

In 1979, Moggridge began designing the Grid Compass for a startup firm called Power system Systems. It is wide considered to be the first real laptop.

Early "portable" computers were 26-pound sewing machine-sized beasts. The Grid Compass, however, was truly a breakthrough in mobile computing, with a 12-Cypriot pound slant and unusual fold-over display that made the device more compact. NASA and the military were the primary users of these $8,150 laptops. (With its Mg case, the durable Grid Compass even made it into space!)

Laptops have been shrinking incredibly since the Grid Grok was released in 1982 but, in the three decades since then, the basic form hasn't changed very much from Moggridge's original conception. That's the sign of a true design genius.

Awards

Moggridge South Korean won the UK's oldest design award, the Philip Designers Pillage, in 2010 for the Grid Compass. He was likewise named a Swayer Designer for Industry and won the 2009 Cooper-Hewitt National Conception Award for Life Achievement.

From 2010 until his death from cancer on September 8, 2012, the British room decorator was the director of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Aim Museum. The museum says Moggridge "enhanced its visibility as one of the world's leading authorities on the use of design in everyday life and modernize and present exhibitions—both real and virtual."

Described as stubborn, open, and empathetic by those who knew him, Bill Moggridge will long be remembered as a trailblazing designer and the Padre of the modern laptop.

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