Andy is an Associate Professor and co-director of the Interaction Research Studio, based at Northumbria University's London campus. He is a designer and maker, who over the past twenty years has developed a practice-based approach to the production of interactive research devices and design-led methodologies for user studies. A co-founder of the Studio, he has helped it grow into an internationally recognised team of multi-disciplinary designers and technologists. His work centres on the design of research products that offer an alternative present for how technology is produced, distributed, and used, ranging from highly finished prototypes for long-term field studies to self-build designs that anybody to make at home.