Bill Moggridge is a cofounder of IDEO, a global design consultancy, creating impact through design. 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 design program at Stanford University. He served as Congress Chair for CONNECTING’07, the Icsid/IDSA World Design Congress held in San Francisco in October 2007.

His book, DVD and website Designing Interactions (www.designinginteractions.com) tells the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives; it is available from The MIT Press. He is currently working on another book, Designing Media, which examines the connections between traditional mainstream media and the emerging digital realm. In 2009 he won the National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York