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Bill Moggridge

1943 - 2012

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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 a mainstream design discipline (he is given credit for coining the term). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bill Moggridge has received more than 123,357 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Bill Moggridge is the 84th most popular designer (up from 126th in 2019), the 4,157th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,886th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Designer.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among DESIGNERS

Among designers, Bill Moggridge ranks 84 out of 86. Before him are Philipp Plein, Marc Davis, Tony Esposito, Robert Kalina, Sandy Powell, and Max Miedinger. After him are Matthew Carter, Yvonne Blake, Luc Luycx, Fumito Ueda, Abdulaziz al-Omari, and Jenny Beavan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Bill Moggridge ranks 494. Before him are Shinobu Sekine, David Clennon, Leslie Uggams, François Mazet, Zvonimir Vujin, and Nancy Greene Raine. After him are Daniel Brandenstein, Charles H. Bennett, Kaoru Ikeya, Vitaliy Khmelnytskyi, Ingrid Gulbin, and Marita Lange. Among people deceased in 2012, Bill Moggridge ranks 339. Before him are Patricia Medina, Valeri Vasiliev, Clive Dunn, Viktor Kosichkin, Ruth Barcan Marcus, and Tibor Csernai. After him are Ralph McQuarrie, Corrie Sanders, Heino Kruus, Margaret Osborne duPont, Susan Tyrrell, and Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bill Moggridge ranks 4,157 out of 7,765. Before him are Maisie Williams (1997), Allan Williams (1930), Jimmy Johnstone (1944), Samantha Morton (1977), Meave Leakey (1942), and Keir Starmer (1962). After him are Benjamin Glazer (1887), Alexander Wood (1907), William Dobson (1610), William Michael Rossetti (1829), Christian Coulson (1978), and Kathryn Beaumont (1938).

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Among DESIGNERS In United Kingdom

Among designers born in United Kingdom, Bill Moggridge ranks 14. Before him are John Baskerville (1706), Paul Smith (1946), Storm Thorgerson (1944), Laura Ashley (1925), Jony Ive (1967), and Sandy Powell (1960). After him are Matthew Carter (1937), Yvonne Blake (1940), and Jenny Beavan (1950).

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