Her impact continues through the International Design Expo, which she created over 20 years ago to challenge the next generation of interdisciplinary graduates.
Joy Mountford is a leading designer who is in human-computer interface, user experience, and interaction design. She had work in a lot of big companies before like Honeywell, Apple, Yahoo….. and a lot of different places. And she is currently the “global lead interaction designer” of Ford.
Joy is interested in many different kinds of industries, and she is willing to take the challenge. By look at her experience, she makes interface design from real-life products like a toy, electronic, computer, to even airplane and car; she also does design for internet products like websites. She believes that ”The principles of creating quality designs are similar between technology uses, and the user’s capabilities do not change.“
The name Joy Mountford maybe is not non by everyone, however, her design and product she had worked on effect our daily life. Most of the art school students are using Apple’s laptop or MacOS right now. However, she used to be ahead of Apple’s human interface group, everyone knows that the interface of Mac OS now matter or previous is amazing, compare to Window it is much easy to use and understand, everything is more intuitive, clear, and the visual design is still balance. And this idea and structure of design are still on today’s Apple device.
Good knowledge and understanding of human interface help designers to create good designs on products. And this does reflect on the Joy Mountford case. She can design interface for Apple computer those are heavy on software, or something like electronics, airplane, and car which are focused more on hardware. So she is a real success and lead of this human-computer interface, interaction design, UX industry.
Biography:
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“Ubiquity: S. Joy Mountford on Interface Design.” Edited by UBIQUITY STAFF, Acm, 2004, ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1022351.
Joy Mountford, www.joymMoggridge., Bill. “Joy Mountford.” Designing Interactions, 2006, www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/JoyMountford.ountford.com/.
