The designer of the first modern laptop, Bill Moggridge, died Saturday in the U.S. city of San Francisco, at age 69, following his cancer.
The British industry, currently head of the National Design Museum Cooper-Hewitt in New York, was the creator of the current opening as laptops. The first computer of its kind designed by Moggridge in 1982, Grid Compass, incorporated a yellow keyboard characters on a black background and an Intel 8086.
Grid Compass was coated magnesium and was considered a strong computer, with a memory of 340 kb and a price of more than $ 8,000 (6,260 euros). Moggridge's machine was used by the U.S. Army NASA and included it in his race into space aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1985.
Moggridge developed the new design to fit a more compact piece keyboard and screen shots. So far, laptops looked more like that of a sewing machine and could weigh nine kilos.
The British industry was also the co-founder of the design consultancy Ideo, born in 1991 and worked as an associate professor of design at Stanford University (California) from 1983 to 2010. Moggridge was also visiting professor of interaction design at the Royal College of Art in London and until now held the position of associate director of the National Design Museum Cooper-Hewitt in New York.
Moggridge is the author of the book "Designing Interactions" (Interaction Design), including the co-founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and "Designing Media" (Media Design), published in 2010. The British received a recognition award for his career in 2009, during the National Design Awards from the United States, and Prince Philip Design in 2010.
The New York design museum pays homage to its director: "Loved by museum staff and the design community at large, Bill touched the lives of many people through his wise counsel," said Caroline Baumann, associate director of the museum, in a statement. Moggridge leaves his wife Karin, 47, and their two children, Alex and Erik.
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