Hugh Dubberly

At Apple Computer (1986 - 1994), Dubberly was a Creative Director, managing graphic design and corporate identity; he also produced the technology-forecast film "Knowledge Navigator" presaging the Internet and interaction via mobile devices. At Netscape (1995 - 2000), he was Vice President of Design managing groups responsible for the design, engineering, and production of Netscape’s web services. He co-founded Dubberly Design Office (2000), a software, system, and service design consultancy, whose clients have included Amazon, Cisco,  Facebook, Google, IBM, J&J, Lilly, Nikon, Samsung, and Visa.

Hugh has served on AIGA’s national board, the SIGGRAPH Conference Committee, and chaired ACD’s “Design for the Internet” Conference. He recently co-chaired a conference on Design and AI at UC Berkeley, "From Interface to Agency."

Hugh has taught design courses at San Jose State, Art Center, CMU, Stanford, IIT/ID, Northeastern, CCA, and UC Berkeley. He edited a column “On Modeling” for the Association of Computing Machinery’s journal, Interactions, and has published more than 50 articles on design  methods. He was elected to the ACM CHI Academy and named a Fellow of AIGA. 

Hugh Dubberly received a BFA in Graphic Design from RISD and an MFA from Yale.