Mike Nuttall is a British

designer A designer is a person who plans the form or structure of something before it is made, by preparing drawings or plans. In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, products, processes, laws, games, graphics, services, or exper ...

who established Matrix Product Design in 1983 in

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. In 1991, his company merged with two other established design firms, David Kelley Design (founded by

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) and ID Two (founded by

Bill Moggridge William Grant Moggridge, Royal Designer for Industry, 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 i ...

) to form the influential design firm

IDEO IDEO () is a design firm, design and consulting firm with offices in the U.S., England, and China. It was founded in Palo Alto, California, in 1991. The company's 500 staff uses a design thinking approach to design products, services, environmen ...

. Nuttall studied at

Leicester College Leicester College is a further education college in Leicester, England. It is one of the largest colleges in the UK, with more than 26,000 students, 1,600 staff, plus an annual budget of over £50million. It has three main campuses in the ci ...

of Art & Design, getting his BA degree in

Industrial Design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in adva ...

. He continued at

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public university, public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City, London, White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design uni ...

in London receiving his MA degree. He moved to the States in 1980. From 1983 to 1991, his firm, Matrix Product Design, won more than twenty design awards. After joining IDEO, he led development efforts resulting in many successful computer, consumer, and medical products with major corporations from the US, Europe and Asia. Among other roles at IDEO, he founded and managed IDEO Ventures, an internal venture capital fund making strategic equity and royalty investments in IDEO's client partners. He has also taught in a number of academic institutions.

Products designed

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IWS computer system (1981) * Convergent Technologies AWS workstation (1981) * Convergent Technologies WorkSlate (1983) * Convergent Technologies NGEN computer system (1984) *

Metaphor Computer Systems Metaphor Computer Systems (1982–1994) was an American computer company that created an advanced workstation, database gateway, unique graphical office interface, and software applications that "seamlessly integrate" data from both internal and ...

workstation (1984) *

AT&T UNIX PC The AT&T UNIX PC is a Unix desktop computer originally developed by Convergent Technologies (later acquired by Unisys), and marketed by AT&T Information Systems in the mid- to late-1980s. The system was codenamed "Safari 4" and is also known as th ...

computer (1985) * AT&T Personal Terminal 510 (1985) * "Dove Bar"

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(1987) * Plus Development Passport removable hard drive (1988) * Apple

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(1990) * Apple

Macintosh Quadra 700 The Macintosh Quadra 700 is a personal computer designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer from October 1991 to March 1993. It was introduced alongside the Quadra 900 as the first computers in the Quadra series, using the Motorola 6804 ...

(1991) * Apple

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(1991) * Apple LaserWriter Select (1993) *

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workstation (1993)

References

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