The Home Bar Accessories

Multiple Accessories for The Home Bar

2019 For Drinkworks

Based After successfully launched The Home Bar, Drinkworks wanted to develop The Home Bar accessories which can improve single serve cocktail experience even better.

They wanted to develop three different accessories based on consumer needs from their marketing team’s research. They were: 1. Pod storage 2. Short glass stand 3. Child lock.

Exploring outstanding supporters for The Home Bar.

First of all, I explored what these new accessories should bring for better single serve cocktail experience and defined two main subjects for the design direction:

1. They should have easy, simple, and intuitive usability for the universal users as outstanding supporter for The Home Bar.

2. They should have aesthetical relationship with The Home Bar as one family.

Overall design development proceeded focused on these subjects.

Fabricating prototypes to evaluate usability and aesthetic.

After Drinkworks down selected leading design concepts, I fabricated 3D printed prototypes to evaluate scale, form, and usability. I proceeded appearance model fabrication of each accessory with refined design based on prototype evaluation feedback to evaluate overall product design even more detailly including CMF.

Organizing your pods in one place with The Home Bar Pod Storage.

Drinkworks marketing team’s report shows that many users are complained organizing pods from large pod size. With The Home Bar Pod Storage, you can now store up to 20 pods in one place which is same number of pods from The Home Bar party pack.

The Home Bar Pod Storage designed following with The Home Bar’s design details. Overall shape and CMF matched with The Home Bar to create aesthetical relationship. This approach provides perfect visual harmony with The Home Bar when you place Pod Storage next to The Home Bar as one family unit.

 You can see stored pods without open The Home Bar Pod Storage door through tinted door. It is designed matching with The Home Bar’s tinted external water tank to create even more visual relationship with The Home Bar.

 You can enjoy even better single serve cocktail experience without pod organizing stress with The Home Bar Pod Storage.

Fit any height of glass with The Home Bar Glass Stand to avoid splash on your Home Bar.

The Home Bar was designed with martini glass as default glass height since martini glass was the tallest glass for the cocktail. According to Drinkworks marketing team’s report, People are using various height of glass and that caused splash issue from distance between pouring nozzle and glass. To avoid splash issue with various height of glass, you can use the Home Bar Glass Stand with three different ways to match with your glass heights: 1. Use bottom part only. 2. Use top part only. 3. Use assembled part.

The Home Bar Glass Stand designed following with The Home Bar’s design details. Overall shape matched with The Home Bar’s tower to create aesthetical relationship as well as guide user where to place The Home Bar Glass Stand intuitively.

You can now fit any height of glass with The Home Bar Glass Stand without splash concerns.

Avoid accidental use of The Home Bar from your kids with The Home Bar Child Lock.

After launched The Home Bar, people claimed child safe feature since it doesn’t have any physical or digital child safe feature. Drinkworks wanted to satisfy this user needs with simple way as possible.

With The Home Bar Child Lock, you can now physically lock The Home Bar. The Home Bar Child Lock has simple, but stable gear mechanism that can physically lock your Home Bar through blocking pod insert area. Once you lock your Home Bar with The Home Bar Child Lock, it is impossible to remove The Home Bar Child Lock without key.

The Home Bar Child Lock designed following pod shape to fit it to The Home Bar. Taller overall height with keyhole aesthetically differentiates with pod. Simple intuitive label also visually differentiates it with the pod.

The Home Bar Child Lock helps you to aware from any accidental use from your kids and give you peace of mind from any potential accidental use.

Enjoy even better “Home Bar” experience with the Home Bar accessories.

The Home Bar accessories were developed based on different user needs. However, they have same genuine purpose which is improving “Home Bar” experience even better as outstanding supporters.

Let’s enjoy even better “Home Bar” experience with The Home Bar accessories!

Official Website: www.drinkworks.com

Design Team: Joongoo Lee (Industrial Design Lead) and Philip Leung (Project Manager) at Accenture Industry X. Boston.

Mechanical Engineering Team: Lee Powers (Mechanical Engineering Lead for The Child Lock) at Accenture Industry X. Boston.

Design Credit: Drinkworks / Accenture Industry X

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