Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Moggridge

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British designer Bill Moggridge.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

William Grant Moggridge, RDI was an English 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-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as a mainstream design discipline. Among his achievements, he designed the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass, was honoured for Lifetime Achievement from the National Design Awards, and given the Prince Philip Designers Prize. He was quoted as saying, "If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things."

British - Designer | June 25, 1943 - September 8, 2012

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I like the concept of wearing in instead of wearing out.

Bill Moggridge

The only way to experience an experience is to experience it

Bill Moggridge

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

Bill Moggridge

If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.

Bill Moggridge

I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed--that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed. Even foods are designed now. So in the process of helping people understand this, making them more aware of the fact that the world around us is something that somebody has control of, perhaps they can feel some sense of control, too. I think that’s a nice ambition.

Bill Moggridge

If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.

Bill Moggridge