Day's Espresso & Coffee
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Day's Espresso & Coffee

Cozy, characterful site for a long-running Highlands coffee house — an interactive “Pick My Drink” quiz, a house-creations menu, and live hours.

Studio Concept

Day's Espresso & Coffee is a demonstration build we designed and produced in-house to show our approach for this kind of business. The demo runs live, but it is not an operating business site: ordering, booking, and checkout flows are for show, and nothing placed through them is fulfilled.

1The Brief

A neighborhood coffee house that has poured from the same corner for three decades competes on atmosphere and regulars, not novelty. Most café sites throw that away — a logo, a PDF menu, and none of the couch-and-board-games warmth that makes the place worth sitting in. The brief for this concept: put a thirty-year coffee house's character on screen, and give a first-timer a reason to walk in and something to order.

2The Build

We set a warm, lived-in art direction — couches, art on the walls, the same corner since 1994 — and made the menu personable. The centerpiece is a “Pick My Drink” quiz that matches a visitor to a real item in four questions and about thirty seconds, pastry pairing included. Around it sits a structured menu across house creations, espresso, whole-bean roasts, the tea wall, and pastries, with the signature Spicy Mocha leading. The “why the neighborhood stays” section, a live open-now status, and visit details round out the build.

3What It Shows

The demonstration turns ambiance and a long history into something interactive rather than nostalgic. The quiz-to-menu pattern removes the blank-stare moment at the counter and generalizes to any café, bar, or menu-driven shop that wants a low-pressure way to turn a browser into an order.

Process

How We Built It.

1

Concept & Art Direction

Set a warm, lived-in tone — couches, art on the walls, thirty years on the same corner — with editorial type that feels like the room.

2

Pick My Drink Quiz

Designed and built the four-question quiz that matches a visitor to a real menu item in about thirty seconds, pastry pairing included.

3

Menu & Beans

Structured the menu across house creations, espresso, whole-bean roasts, the tea wall, and pastries, with the Spicy Mocha leading.

4

Visit & Deploy

Added the live open-now status, location, Instagram, and newsletter, then deployed the demonstration to its live environment.

Tech Stack

Next.js
React
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
Railway

Gallery

Day's Espresso & Coffee screenshot 1