Gillian Crampton Smith is a British educator, interaction designer, and a pioneer of computer desktop publishing.

Since the early 1980s she has developed several academic graduate programs focused on digital graphic design, typesetting and human-computer interaction, notably at Saint Martin's School of Art, the Royal College of Art (1992-2000), Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (2000-2005) and Iuav University of Venice (2006–2014).

[1] She is an Honorary Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and an advisor at the MIT Senseable City Lab.

[3] In 1989 she moved to the Royal College of Art where she built the Computer Related Design (CRD) program.

The CRD program later achieved an international reputation as a leading centre for interaction design.