[5] David M. Kelley received a Bachelor of Science with a major in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1973.

He is married to Katharine C. Branscomb, a former CEO of IntelliCorp, whom he met through mutual friend Steve Jobs.

Hovey left to pursue other interests and the firm was renamed "David Kelley Design" (DKD).

He also co-founded Edge Innovations, the special-effects company responsible for the whales in the Free Willy movies, among many other film credits.

[9] In 1991, Kelley merged DKD with three other design firms (Mike Nuttall's Matrix Product Design in Palo Alto, ID TWO in San Francisco, and Moggridge Associates in London, the latter two founded by Bill Moggridge) to create IDEO, which he ran as CEO until 2000.

[15] In 2013, David and his brother Tom Kelley published Creative Confidence,[16] which a Forbes review called "an empowering, compelling, relentlessly hopeful and optimistic read.