As a young industrial designer working for a firm called ID TWO, Bill asked me one day “Phillip, do you want to design a user interface?” I said that I had never designed for computers before and in fact didn’t even know how to use them very well. He said “Perfect!” and in that instant, my design career switched from plastic to pixels, and the first user interface I worked on was something called MacWrite II.
In this and in many more ways, Bill had a fundamental impact on my professional life and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to know and to work for him. I’ll endeavour to keep passing on the grace, consideration, and spirit of curiosity that were amongst the many things I learnt along the way.
Thank you Bill.