Bill Verplank
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William Verplank is a designer and researcher who focuses on interactions between humans and computers. He is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University's CCRMA and is involved in Stanford's D-school. He received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and product design from Stanford, then went on to MIT to complete a PhD in man-machine systems. Together with Bill Moggridge
he coined the term interaction design
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He worked at Xerox
Parc from 1978-1986 refining the design of the original graphical user interface and mouse, in the Xerox Star
. He went on to work with Bill Moggridge, first at IDtwo and then at IDEO
(1986–1992), bringing graphical user interfaces to the world of product design. From 1992-2000 at Interval Research, he directed the design and research for collaboration, tangibility and music. Since then, he was on the steering committee and taught at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
(2000–2005), and has worked at Stanford's CCRMA as a part-time lecturer teaching courses in interaction design and input devices. He also teaches and lectures internationally on interaction design.
An interview and a video of Verplank, featuring his signature sketching while talking, is in the book Designing Interactions, published in October 2006.
Bill Moggridge
William Moggridge, an industrial and interaction designer, is co-founder of the Silicon Valley-based design firm IDEO and the current director of the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York. He designed what was the first laptop computer, the GRiD Compass...
he coined the term interaction design
Interaction design
In design, human–computer interaction, and software development, interaction design, often abbreviated IxD, is "the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services." Like many other design fields interaction design also has an interest in form but its main...
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He worked at Xerox
Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
Parc from 1978-1986 refining the design of the original graphical user interface and mouse, in the Xerox Star
Xerox Star
The Star workstation, officially known as the Xerox 8010 Information System, was introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1981. It was the first commercial system to incorporate various technologies that today have become commonplace in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based...
. He went on to work with Bill Moggridge, first at IDtwo and then at IDEO
IDEO
IDEO is an international design and innovation consultancy founded in Palo Alto, California, United States with other locations in San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Boston, London, Munich, Shanghai, and Singapore, as well as Mumbai, Seoul, and Tokyo. The company helps design products, services,...
(1986–1992), bringing graphical user interfaces to the world of product design. From 1992-2000 at Interval Research, he directed the design and research for collaboration, tangibility and music. Since then, he was on the steering committee and taught at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea
Interaction Design Institute Ivrea was a graduate school in the field of Interaction Design operating in the town of Ivrea, in Italy....
(2000–2005), and has worked at Stanford's CCRMA as a part-time lecturer teaching courses in interaction design and input devices. He also teaches and lectures internationally on interaction design.
An interview and a video of Verplank, featuring his signature sketching while talking, is in the book Designing Interactions, published in October 2006.