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Month: October 2008

Posted on October 27, 2008

Gordon Ramsay as a Role Model

It seems that many UX designers, consultants and specialists see Gordon Ramsay as an appropriate role model of what they do. At least for Patrick Kennedy and Todd Hoff.

Posted on October 3, 2008

Why information architects are needed in the kitchen

Based upon the restaurant metaphor with a front stage (dining room) and a back stage (kitchen), the authors advice information architects and other user experience professionals to apply their thinking to the area of content management in the back stage as well.

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  • Synaesthesia: The multisensory dining experience
    Paper from Charles Spence, the authority on designing food and dining experiences in the International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science 18 (2019). Abstract “The phenomenon of synaesthesia has undoubtedly proved a great inspiration to a number of artists, designers, and marketers for more than a century now. In fact, novelists, poets, composers, and painters, […]
  • Multisensory Experiences: A Primer
    From the primer: “We present a primer on multisensory experiences, the different components of this concept, as well as a reflection of its implications for individuals and society. We define multisensory experiences, illustrate how to understand them, elaborate on the role of technology in such experiences, and present the three laws of multisensory experiences, which […]
  • Food & Eating Design
    Or how designers and design thinking could add value to the food industry at large. “The Food & Eating Design Lab (director Rick Schifferstein) brings together designers and researchers with stakeholders in agriculture, the food industry, the hospitality sector, health professionals and any others who try to improve people’s interactions with their daily foods. (…) […]
  • Now We’re Cooking With Lasers
    “Researchers at Columbia Engineering have digitised food creation and cooking processes, using 3D printing technology to tailor food shape and texture and lasers of various wavelengths to cook it.” (Source: CACM) – I wonder what that does to the experience of dining.
  • Back from hibernation since 2010
    Coming back from 11 years of hibernation (2010-2021) means we’re trying to collect, integrate and update FoodUX with previous and recent pointers.
  • Gastronomy: A source of inspiration for UX design
    MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!! Today, I delivered my presentation at the EuroIA 2010 in Paris on the relation between my two passions: gastronomy and user experience design. FoodUX served its purpose as a collection of background materials for the presentation. In future times, I will keep maintaining @CompCook as much as possible. So, keep tuning in once […]
  • And What About Taste?
    Taste is a very important driver of the eating experience and a complex human phenomenon. It has been a topic of scientific research and philosophical discussion. Research on Taste The mission of the Taste Science Laboratory in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University is to elucidate the nature and impact of individual differences […]
  • Concepts for a dynamic, multi-sensorial eating experience
    Just when Catalonian chef Ferran Adrià announced that his world famous restaurant El Bulli will be closed permanently, another Spanish chef takes center stage. During the 8th international gastronomy summit, MadridFusión, world renowned Michelin star chef Juan Mari Arzak of the famous Arzak restaurant in Spain and Philips Design presented a series of concepts intended […]
  • Anybody Can Do It
    Recently, Jakob Nielsen published one of his Alertbox posts with the title Anybody Can Do Usability. In this post, he made a comparison between cooking and usability. According to Jakob, usability is like cooking dinner: Everybody needs the outcome; Anybody can perform the most basic activities; Anyone can learn these basics pretty quickly; There’s a […]
  • Harmony and Balance as High-Order Design Principles
    Two high-order qualities of compelling user experiences revolve around the principles of harmony and balance. People feel at ease experiencing these. Unfortunately, high-order principles aren’t discussed in the user experience domain extensively. Reading this article by Jennifer Farley (Sitepoint) on balance as a design principle and finding this blogpost on Washoku cooking and design by […]
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