David Farkas presented on using mixology and cocktail design as an analogy for interaction design. Mixology involves experimenting with ingredients and recipes to create new cocktails, similar to how interaction designers iterate on a design by testing with users. Farkas discussed how the process of learning mixology through education and practice is comparable to learning design and provided several examples of original cocktail recipes he created with different flavor combinations and ingredients. He argued that mixology serves as a useful metaphor for interaction design processes like user validation, iteration and designing experiences that are intuitive to users.
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Interaction Design Through Mixology
1. Interaction Design
Through Mixology
David Farkas
Electronic Ink, Philadelphia PA
@dafark8
#DTDD
MidwestUX 2012
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2. What is Mixology?
Mixology is the study and practice
of mixing alcoholic beverages;
experimenting and creating new
cocktail recipes similar to the way
a chef creates a new dish
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_mixology
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20. Mixology is IxD
http://survivingtheworld.net/Lesson1225.html
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21. Mixology is IxD
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cqjAhdk4iTQ/TwuNv22thtI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/QYbBEwmk-ko/s1600/Table%252Bof%252BAlcohol.png
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22. Resources
My Recipes: http://bit.ly/DTDD_MUX
Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/dafark8/mixology/
Liqurious: http://liqurious.notcot.org/
Home Bar Basics: http://www.homebarbasics.com/?cat=5
Wrench in the System: http://wrenchinthesystem.com/
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23. Interaction Design
Through Mixology
David Farkas
Electronic Ink, Philadelphia PA
dafark8@gmail.com
@dafark8
#DTDD
MidwestUX 2012
@dafark8 #DTDD #MWUX12