Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Silver A' Design Award in Home Appliances Design Competition Category.
SilverHome Appliance· 2023
Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker
by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
Client: Segnoinverso
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Home Appliance Category
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About Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker
The design is a specialty coffee machine for drip coffee. It has an automated movement of the parts to collect ground coffee and move, with a rotation, to the water outlet position. One button and it's done! The user can modify or pre-set the details of grinding, temperature, and volume of water. The state-of-the-art machine is designed to brew the favorite blends to perfection, with precise temperature control and customizable settings.
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About the Silver A' Design Award
Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Wsd Speciality Coffee Maker is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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Your innovative fusion of futuristic architecture and automated technology in the WSD Speciality Coffee Maker has redefined the coffee brewing experience - could you share the journey that led to this unique design approach?
The journey behind the WSD Specialty Coffee Maker was about blending innovation with the art of coffee brewing. We wanted to elevate the experience by combining cutting-edge automation with user-friendly design, creating a unique futuristic way to prepare your coffee. Inspired by futuristic architecture, we focused on sleek, minimalist design while integrating smart technology like precision temperature control and personalized brewing profiles. Our goal was to enhance the coffee-making process without sacrificing the tactile, hands-on connection users have with their coffee. The result is a machine that’s both technologically advanced and intuitively delightful to use.
The WSD Speciality Coffee Maker's automated movement system represents a significant advancement in drip coffee preparation - what inspired you to develop this rotational mechanism, and how does it enhance the brewing process?
It was designed with the goal of enhancing extraction uniformity and providing a more consistent, balanced coffee profile. Inspired by professional drip coffee techniques, this system replicates the manual pouring action often used in high-end pour-over brewing. By mimicking the rotational and steady pour patterns, the coffee maker ensures that water is evenly distributed across the coffee grounds, maximizing extraction.In traditional drip machines, water can sometimes concentrate in one area, leading to under- or over-extracted coffee. The rotational movement of the WSD mechanism prevents this by creating a gentle and consistent saturation of the grounds, leading to a balanced flavor. Additionally, the automated feature makes it easy for users to achieve barista-level precision with every brew, regardless of experience, which aligns with the brand’s mission of democratizing specialty coffee.
The touch interface and magnetic knob of the WSD Speciality Coffee Maker create an intriguing balance between high-tech functionality and minimalist design - how did you arrive at this specific combination of user interaction elements?
The combination of a touch interface with a magnetic knob in the WSD Specialty Coffee Maker was guided by two main design principles: intuitive control and aesthetic simplicity. Our goal was to create a machine that is approachable, easy to use, and visually appealing, without sacrificing precision. Inspiration was from induction cooking plates.The touch interface provides a modern, streamlined look that’s easy to clean and minimizes the number of physical buttons, which aligns with a minimalist aesthetic. Users can select and customize their brewing preferences quickly, making the machine accessible for both casual coffee drinkers and enthusiasts.The magnetic knob adds a tactile element to the experience, giving users fine control over specific settings, such as brew time and water temperature. This was inspired by the desire to give users a sense of craftsmanship and control. By pairing these elements, we’ve created an interface that balances high-tech convenience with a satisfying, hands-on feel—enhancing both usability and the emotional experience of making coffee.
Behind the Design
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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Specialty coffee machine for drip coffee has an automated movement of the parts to collect grinded coffee from the upper container and move, with a rotation, to the water outlet position, in the front. One button and it's done! The user can modify or pre-set with a knob the details of grinding, temperature, and volume of water. Our state-of-the-art machine is designed to brew your favorite blends to perfection, with precise temperature control and customizable settings.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Dimension are 310 x 267 x 340h - Power 60hz 220v -Heating up to 99°C - Grinding selection from 0.75 to 0.1 mm - Water tank 1L
- Tags
- coffee, machine, beans, espresso, drip, kettle, automated
- Production Technology
- Different materials are involved due to the complex nature of the structure. ABS for plastic parts, Glass for the flat base with touch interface and the kettle, Metal for the funnel and mechanical parts that allow the automatic movement of the funnel. There is a coffee beans grinder with conical burr in order to have a perfect grinding, touch buttons to make the outlook clean and simple and a led display to feedback the user about the status and changes.
- Design Challenge
- Expert in espresso, fully automatic and capsule machines, we started to drink a lot of drip coffee, also to stay awake and design. We tried to put some tech innovation ( automated movement, touch buttons and magnetic knob) avoiding a colorfull display, cause we don't like everything in our kitchen to become a display.
- Research
- Deep expert in the Eruopean coffee products and business, we started a journey in the drip coffee that is not that common in our own countries. This was the new challenge we accepted : Make a eycatching, modern and easy to use drip coffee machine. The team was of the two old friends and designers that have designed lots of coffee machines.
- Inspiration
- Futuristic architecture was the inspiration starting point as this is a coffee station more than a coffee machine, as well as, Robots and A.I. on the other side, due to the automation of movements and the limited need for interaction from the user.
- Project Duration
- The project was developed in Italy with the constant update by internet with the client and the manufacturer. It took around six months totally to finish the project while the working prototype phase took around two months. After almost nine months the project reached the production phase.
- Operation Flow
- Super easy operated by the user pressing one button after selecting by the knob, the grams of coffee and the temperature and volume of water. Refilling of water and beans is easy by the top lid of the two containers.
- Team Members
- Nicola Zanetti, Federico Gonzales Bosque
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