Writing about model

January 15, 2010

Starbucks Barista as Interface

Much like the IBM punch card machines that begun an era of computing, the baristas take a command from a customer, translate it to a language the system can understand, and produce another form of output at the end: a beverage. To articulate this process, I created a distillation diagram to show that plain English is translated to Starbucks short-form, which acts as a set of instructions for the production of physical output.

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