Marney Morris, through her work as an interactive designer, designs to engage people, so that they can enjoy using computers.

Making a Mark In 1984, Morris founded Animatrix, the first interactive design company. Animatrix has shipped over 300 projects. In the early years, these included product launches for most of the PC industry, including Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Director, Microsoft Excel, and Word, Hewlett Packard’s first printers, and the Apple Macintosh (over 40 projects including the first Guided Tour). Morris shares the patent for the onscreen TV Guide. In the last decade, Animatrix has focused on building corporate internets and internal projects designed to deliver efficient value to users. New territory In 1997 Morris launched Sprocketworks, a reality-based, interactive learning experience. Topics include music, space, flight, and chemistry. Honors & awards In 2000, Morris was named one of the Top 25 Women on the Web. Opinion Computer interfaces should be self-explanatory. And simple. And they could be. Off hours When she’s not blazing trails in the digital world, Morris teaches interaction design in the Engineering Department at Stanford University.