Worth-Focused Design, Book 2

Gilbert Cockton is a part-time Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sunderland. He retired as Professor of Design Theory at Northumbria University in 2019, remaining affiliated with NORTH Lab as an Emeritus Professor. His career has balanced teaching, research, and working for and within businesses, government, and the third sector. He has worked in academic computing and design departments since 1984. From 2004, his research has focused on bringing critical creative practice fully and appropriately into software design and evaluation, first through value and worth as centres for design practice, and then through a generous Wo-Fo, progressing design work through balance and integration, developing approaches and resources that support realistic design practice. Gilbert has held leadership roles in HCI groups in the British Computer Society, IFIP, and ACM, as chair of the BCS HCI group, vice-chair of IFIP TC13, programme coordinator for INTERACT90, and general chair for CHI 2003 and British HCI 2000. He chaired ten technical tracks between 1993 and 2012 for INTERACT, British HCI, CHI, and DIS conferences. He was co-editor in chief of ACM Interactions magazine from 2016-2019. He was awarded a SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award in 2020.

Preface.- Acknowledgments.- Wo-Fo Success Needs Appropriate Design Progressions.- Framing Design Purpose as Worth.- Mixing Balance at All Scopes of Design.- Integrating Across Design Arenas.- Supported Case Studies: From Grounded to Worth-Centred Design.- Unsupported and Taught Case Studies: Adding BIG to Wo-Fo.- The Past, Present, and Future of BIG Wo-Fo.- Glossary and Abbreviations.- References.- Author Biography.