Duncan Brooks has been working in the design profession for over 40 years. He worked full time in the global automotive industry for fifteen years before coming into higher education and gradually establishing his own design research consultancy company. This on-going research and development experience greatly informs his teaching practice. During his industrial design career Duncan Brooks has worked with, managed and consulted design research and development groups in American and Europe. The overall context of Duncan’s industrial design consultancy is varied but relates importantly to the process of innovation, invention and product design development leading to high volume production in the areas of automobile, truck and tractor design and production. Continuing to practice as an industrial design consultant in this area, Duncan Brooks has designed for and advised many well- known, globally based automotive and truck manufacturers. His design approach originally stems from a user-centred participatory standpoint and is currently concerned not exclusively with the design of automobiles but additionally with the area of interactive user-centred sensory environments. This now encompasses contract seating, environmental design and immersive sensory spaces. Research interests include designing and making products, the design process, human factors user centred design and design for high volume industrial production.