The Grid Compass is a family of laptop computers introduced in 1982 by the Grid Systems Corporation . The design for the Compass was rendered by Bill Moggridge . Owing to its clamshell design —the first in a portable computer —some historians credit the original Compass as the first ever laptop.
21-474: Moggridge is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Bill Moggridge (1943–2012), British designer, author and educator Hal Moggridge , British landscape architect John Traherne Moggridge (1842–1874), British botanist, entomologist, and arachnologist See also [ edit ] Moggridgea , a genus of spiders Mogridge (surname) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
42-466: A 320 × 240-pixel electroluminescent display , 340- kilobyte magnetic bubble memory , and a 1200 bit/s modem . Devices such as hard drives and floppy drives could be connected via the IEEE-488 I/O (also known as GPIB or General Purpose Interface Bus). This port made it possible to connect multiple devices to the addressable device bus. It weighed 5 kg ( 11 lb ). The power input
63-503: A Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce . In October 2006, Moggridge published Designing Interactions ( The MIT Press , ISBN 0-262-13474-8 ), a 764-page introduction to and history of interaction design comprising 40-plus interviews with designers and entrepreneurs, from Douglas Engelbart to Will Wright to Larry Page and Sergey Brin . Moggridge conducted
84-572: A co-founder of IDEO, with David Kelley and Mike Nuttall, as all four firms merged into one. Moggridge stayed at IDEO until 2010, when he was named an IDEO Fellow. In March 2010, Moggridge left IDEO to become director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City, the first person to do so without a museum background. Cooper Hewitt is the only museum in the US devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Moggridge died of cancer in
105-739: A hospice in San Francisco on 8 September 2012. From 1983 to 2010, Moggridge was consulting associate professor in different departments at Stanford University, including the Product Design Program, the Center for Work, Technology, and Organization, and the d.school (officially the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design ). Moggridge was Congress Chair for CONNECTING'07, the Icsid World Design Congress held in San Francisco,
126-656: 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 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." Bill Moggridge
147-634: A role that began in 2000 as he led the effort to prepare a bid that was presented at the 2001 Icsid Congress in Seoul, Korea. In 2001, Moggridge became a steering committee member at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Ivrea, Italy . In 1993, he was a visiting professor in interaction design at Royal College of Art in London and he was a trustee at the Design Museum in London 1992–1995. He had been an advisor to
168-475: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Bill Moggridge William Grant Moggridge , RDI (25 June 1943 – 8 September 2012) was an English designer, author and educator who cofounded the design company IDEO and was director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. He was a pioneer in adopting a human-centred approach in design, and championed interaction design as
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210-481: The 1101, was introduced in April 1982; The 1100 model designation were never released commercially, but featured in some pre-release marketing material. The computer was designed by British industrial designer Bill Moggridge . The design used a clamshell case (where the screen folds flat to the rest of the computer when closed), which was made from a magnesium alloy. The computer featured an Intel 8086 processor ,
231-568: The 50 Most Influential Designers in America. In 2010, he was given the Prince Philip Designers Prize . Moggridge was given a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009 at the National Design Awards , in a ceremony at the White House, presided over by First Lady Michelle Obama The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) named Moggridge a Fellow in 2006. In 1988 Moggridge was named
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#1732881024236252-568: The British government on design education in 1974, and a board member at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design . In 2014, Moggridge was posthumously awarded an AIGA Medal . Moggridge was given an honorary doctorate from CCA (California College of the Arts) in San Francisco in 2012. In FastCompany 's October 2011 issue, Moggridge was profiled as a Master of Design, and named one of
273-637: The London office and worked on another portable computer project, the WorkSlate, for Convergent Technologies . Because of the potential for conflict of interest, Nuttall left ID Two to form his own firm in Palo Alto, Matrix Product Design. In this period, Moggridge also began teaching in Stanford University 's Product Design Program, where he met fellow teacher David Kelley , who had his own engineering design firm, David Kelley Design. In 1991, Moggridge became
294-862: The interviews, recorded and edited the videos (included with the book on a DVD), and designed the book and the book's website. BusinessWeek named it one of the Best Innovation and Design Books in 2006, and design commentator Don Norman wrote, "This will be the book—the book that summarizes how the technology of interaction came into being and prescribes how it will advance in the future." Moggridge followed this in October 2010 with Designing Media (The MIT Press, ISBN 0262014858 ), another compilation of more than 35 interviews with experts in various media, new and old, including Mark Zuckerberg , Chad Hurley , Tim Westergren , Ira Glass , Craig Newmark , Hans Rosling , and DJ Spooky . Again, Moggridge conducted
315-573: The interviews, wrote the text, and designed the book and the book's website. Moggridge is a central figure in Gary Hustwit 's 2009 documentary on design, Objectified . In 2009, Moggridge directed and produced a short film, Professor Poubelle on YouTube , about Doug Wilde, a Stanford Professor Emeritus who began picking up trash on his daily bike rides up a steep mountain highway. GRiD Compass This original model of Compass lacked an internal battery compartment, requiring AC power from
336-678: The machine, as it could be used by paratroopers in combat. Along with the Gavilan SC and Sharp PC-5000 released the following year, the GRiD Compass established much of the basic design of subsequent laptop computers, although the laptop concept itself owed much to the Dynabook project developed at Xerox PARC from the late 1960s. GRiD Systems Corporation subsequently earned significant returns on its patent rights as its innovations became commonplace. The portable Osborne 1 computer sold at around
357-554: The same time as the GRiD, was more affordable and more popular, and ran the popular CP/M operating system. But, unlike the Compass, the Osborne was not a laptop and lacked the Compass's refinement and small size. The Compass ran its own operating system, GRiD-OS. Its specialized software and high price ( US$ 8,000 – $ 10,000 ) meant that it was limited to specialized applications. The initial model,
378-555: The top floor of his home in London. His first industrial design to reach the market was a toaster for Hoover UK in the year 1970. In 1972, he worked on his first computer project, a minicomputer for Computer Technology Ltd , UK, that was never produced. In 1973, another Hoover UK design, for a space heater, was featured on the cover of a UK design magazine. Moggridge returned to the US in 1979 to open another firm, called ID Two, first located in Palo Alto , California. An early client
399-563: The wall. Grid sold the succeeding model, the Compass II, in 1984 with an optional external battery unit. Grid replaced the Compass with the GridCase line in 1985. Development of the Compass began in 1979, and the main buyer was the U.S. government. NASA used it on the Space Shuttle during the early 1980s, as it was powerful, lightweight, and compact. The military Special Forces also purchased
420-408: Was GRiD Systems , for whom he designed what is widely regarded as the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass . This was the first portable computer with a display that closed over the keyboard, a patented innovation that GRiD licensed for many years. It retailed at $ 8,150 (£5,097) and flew on board every Space Shuttle mission from 1983 to 1997. In 1982, designer Mike Nuttall joined ID Two from
441-722: Was born in London on June 25, 1943, to Helen (an artist) and Henry Weston Moggridge (a civil servant). Moggridge studied industrial design at the Central School of Art and Design , London, from 1962 to 1965. In 1965 he moved to the US to find opportunities as a designer, and landed his first job as a designer for the American Sterilizer Co. in Erie, Pennsylvania , designing hospital equipment. In 1969, Moggridge returned to London to study typography and communications. In 1969, Moggridge founded his first company, Moggridge Associates, in
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