Monday, May 23, 2011

Bruce Tognazzini

Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini was Apple employee #66, has been designing software for more than 30 years, and holds nearly 50 US patents in computers and aviation.

Tognazzini is a principal with the Nielsen Norman Group. He was lead designer at WebMD, a start-up founded in February, 1996 by Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape. Before that, Tog was Distinguished Engineer for Strategic Technology at Sun Microsystems. During his 14 years at Apple Computer, he founded the Apple Human Interface Group and acted as Apple's Human Interface Evangelist.

Tognazzini has published two books, Tog on Interface and Tog on Software Design, and was co-author as well as contributing author of numerous other books. He has also
published dozens of papers and articles on computer design. He is currently publishing the free webzine, "AskTog."
(Based on AskTog Website, adapted)

Bio: www.asktog.com/tog.html

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