Vertuo World Coffee Curator

What you watch, as a coffee order, designed and built by Alec Kunkel, design technologist.

  • Client: Nespresso
  • Role: Design Technologist
  • Year: 2026
  • Category: AI/ML

The pitch: what you watch says something about how you take your coffee. The Vertuo World Coffee Curator reads your Prime Video habits and picks a Vertuo Up pod for you. It launched alongside Nespresso’s new ambassador, Dua Lipa.

My contribution

  • Led development of the custom Brand Store, using each customer’s Prime Video watch history as the input for the whole experience.
  • Built the personalization logic: 50+ viewing insights, each tied to a coffee personality, all narrowing down to one Vertuo pod.
  • Owned the front-end build (responsive and accessible) and worked with design to get it out the door in time for the Dua Lipa launch.

Services

Technology
AI recommendation engine, Prime Video data integration, Custom Brand Store, Personalization

Tags: Brand Stores, AI, Prime Video, Fire TV