UX Resources

Quick Start

The Barista Hustle sponsored UX event on 30 June 2025 at Prufrock in London showed UX in theory and practice. The obvious question is "What do I do next to explore UX?". Here are our suggestions.

Credits

Thanks to Barista Hustle, Prufrock and Square Mile Coffee for making the event possible.

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Read the Abbott White Paper at Barista Hustle, kindly free from paywall restrictions: The UX Brew Method

Read Jeremy Challender's Blog about it: Three Abbotts and the UX

Watch Seb Abbott’s video on the basic technique: UX YouTube

Run through the presentation given at Prufrock: The UX Method.pdf

Also see the preceding presentation by Dr Anja Rahn on how the 19th century scientist, Count Rumford, had sorted out much of modern coffee science 200 years ago: Elevate Your Brew.pdf. It was Anja's Rumford work which inspired us to create UX.

Getting started

Buy any reasonable low-cost magnetic stirrer from Amazon or equivalent for £30-40, ideally with a digital readout. You do not need a stirrer-hotplate combination, just the stirrer! Also buy a few 3cm magnetic stirrer bars and a magnetic retriever stick.

Buy a borosilicate glass double-walled brewer with a lid. On Amazon the Dopper and EcoBrews are both fine, with the EcoBrew offering both a 350 and 450 ml version. Others are available.

Start with a “medium” grind 15 g of coffee. Get your 250 ml of near-boiling water spinning to a vortex of 1200 rpm with a 3cm stirrer bar. Tip in your coffee, start your timer. Stop stirring at 2 minutes. Allow to settle for 3 minutes, preferably at a Boycott angle of 30 - 45°. Pour through a fine tea strainer. This will be a good cup of coffee. Not great – it's not dialled in – but it will be good. Now start your own journey to your perfect UX setup, exploring Flash UX, UX Cezve and UXpresso according to your coffee preference and sense of adventure.

Lots of coffee apps

Visit the free Steven Abbott coffee apps to explore some more:

  • Settling
  • Coffee-Extraction
  • Coffee-Calculator
  • Coffee-Roasting
  • Grind Size Measurement
  • Basket Holes

    • Share any tips, tricks, problems with Prof Steven Abbott, steven@stevenabbott.co.uk, who will work with Barista Hustle to help UX grow in its ability to deliver great coffee.