Designing Interactions

Bill Moggridge, one of the founders of IDEO and designer of the first laptop computer (the GRiD Compass, 1981) spoke as part of the Design Thinking Series at the Rotman School of Management.

Moggridge presented from Designing Interactionsand discussed some of the projects IDEO has worked on and the need for interdiscplinary teams as you move up the hierarchy of complexity but he also strongly urged people to "forget [their] discipline when [they] are in the project room." This serves to free people from relying solely on their usual way of thinking and enables a more open compilation of ideas among collaborators.

For more about the book and to see some of the supporting interviews, please see the Designing Interactions Site.