Hugh Dubberly studied graphic design and received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University.

At Apple Computer for nearly ten years, 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 internet pioneer Netscape for five years, he was Vice President of Design, managing groups responsible for the design, engineering, and production of Netscape’s web services. In 2000, he co-founded Dubberly Design Office, a systems, software, and service design consultancy. Much of the practice focuses on systems that support health and wellbeing, for clients such as Accenture, Alere, Amgen, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and a range of start-up firms.

Dubberly has served on AIGA’s national board, the SIGGRAPH Conference Committee, and chaired ACD’s “Design for the Internet” Conference.

Dubberly 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. He was elected to the ACM CHI Academy; named a Fellow of the AIGA; and nominated for the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum National Design Award three times.