Norm Cox

Norman Lloyd "Norm" Cox (born December 3, 1951) is an American interaction designer best known for inventing the hamburger icon.

Impact on interaction design

Norm Cox is most known for his design of the Hamburger button, a stack of three horizontal black lines. These lines resemble a list of items, which serve as a visual reminder of menu lists. In his free time, Cox enjoys fly fishing, playing bluegrass music, creating art and woodworking.

Education Cox pursued his undergraduate study at Louisiana State University, where he majored in Architecture. In 1975 Norm met Robin Kinkead, manager of Xerox's Industrial Design and Human Factors department, whose group needed a graphic designer to develop printwheel and display fonts for the typewriters.

Awards and patents Norm Cox is named as inventor on 29 invention and design patents relating to UI design for his clients through his personal consulting firm, Cox & Hall. He has also received numerous design awards, including the Xerox Opie award, IBM's Thomas J. Watson Design Excellence Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Design Thinking from the Dallas chapter of the Usability Professionals Association, and numerous industry awards for traditional graphic design.