WHAT’S MINE IS
Y OURS
Final Year Project 2016 Diploma of Experience & Product Design
SHARING IS THE NEW BUYING It used to sound absurd to sleep in a stranger’s apartment, but now, it has become the most authentic way to experience a city. It previously felt strange and unsafe to hitch a ride from an unknown driver, but now, it may be the fastest way to get to your destination. Unused or unwanted goods are usually thrown or donated, but now, anyone can be a seller, gaining some value back from those goods. Airbnb, Uber, ZipCar, Taskrabbit and locally Carousell have led a new and promising model of consumerism. Traditionally, consumers purchase their goods and services from businesses through monetary exchange. In recent years, consumers found better deals by transacting peer-topeer instead. It is what the Sharing Economy is about. ‘Things’ are now often shared, subjecting themselves to ‘usership’ rather than exclusive ‘ownership’, so that they can be utilized with greater productivity, minimizing the amount of stuff sitting idle. Hence, what’s mine is now yours/ours. * In this Final Year Project, we explore the nature and practice of sharing, bartering, lending, trading, renting, gifting, swapping etc. We investigate what, why and how we do and don’t share, based on the trust and readiness of consumers in the local context. Is Singapore truly ready for the Sharing Movement? If not, how can we design collaborative sharing services with better trust and adoption mechanisms, empowered by the Internet, mobile technology and social media?
* Title of studio from book by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
PROJECTS SHARING
PROJECT
DESIGNER
THINGS
SOUNDCHECK
Muhammad Redza
EAZZY RENT
Kaera Chen
BOOKS & TALK
Syamimi Mokhsin
SPLITCART
Dawn Ang
SPOCKET
Muhammad Mubeen
THE FINESSE
Yap Yan Chuan
CELEBRATE
Bernice Teo
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
Nur Syahirah
GOOD SHEEP
Amanda Leow
NEIGHBOURLY SG
Gladys Toh
O’HAI
Yeoh Xueting
ALGO
Goh Jee Yan
LATCHGO
Seamus Chng
MONEY
SKILLS & RESOURCES
KNOWLEDGE
SHARING
THINGS
SHARING
MUSICAL EQUIPMENT MUHAMMAD REDZA
SOUNDCHECK A platform for musicians to share their equipments.
SHARING
MUSICAL EQUIPMENT
Alternatives provided for budding musicians Soundcheck is a peer-to-peer equipment sharing application that allows users to rent and lend their musical equipment like effect pedals, cymbals and other smaller accessories.
It helps users look for equipment at a lower cost, as compared to purchasing brand new ones, and also find rare accessories that are no longer available in the market.
While sharing equipment, Soundcheck builds a community of music lovers among the youths, where they exchange knowledge and experiences among themselves to ultimately become better musicians.
SHARING
EQUIPMENT KAERA CHEN
EAZZY RENT A renting platform for people to earn and save money by renting of items
SHARING
EQUIPMENT
Renting is the new buying Eazzy Rent is an app that allows people to
So Eazzy Rent is both a money saving and
post their rarely used items for rental. People,
money earning app that facilitates peer-
who do not wish to buy a brand new product
to-peer renting, instead of buying in the
and use it only for a short period of time, can
marketplace, which creates unnecessary
find a fellow renter, who wishes to earn back
new waste in the ecosystem.
some quick cash through these items that they seldom use.
SHARING
BOOKS
SYAMIMI MOKHSIN
BOOKS & TALK Share, loan and trade books with readers, book lovers, and bookworms alike and make friends!
SHARING
BOOKS
Options of book transactions for readers
Books & Talk supports the reading community in Singapore by offering an online platform to loan, share and trade books.
Users can simply upload a picture of their bookshelves, select if they are open for loan, share or trade and start having access to any genres you may think of.
Additionally, the community of readers can form smaller groups with different reading interests to discuss deeper or discover new books!
SHARING
MONEY
SHARING
SHIPPING FEES
DAWN ANG
SPILTCART An app that allows online shoppers to save money on shipping fees by splitting it with one another.
SHARING
SHIPPING FEES
Shipping fees shared among shoppers Have an item from a website you want but not willing to pay an extra USD$30 for shipping?
No worries, Splitcart brings together a pool of buyers to combine all purchases while splitting the shipping fees. The more shoppers there are, the cheaper shipping gets!
SHARING
DEALS
MUHAMMAD MUBEEN
SPOCKET The pocket deal maker
SHARING
DEALS
Deals just became even better
The Spocket app is a pocket deal maker that helps you split offers and deals with others so that you can save more. Simply just snap a pic, set a deal, and let Spocket find you someone to share the deal!
Now sit back and watch your wallet grow!
SHARING
SKILLS & RESOURCES
SHARING
SKILLS YAP YAN CHUAN
THE FINESSE Sharing skills and companionship in a community
SHARING
SKILLS
Everyone can become a skill-sharer The Finesse is a skill-sharing platform where teachers provide modular classes for learners to build skills of any kind. Ranging from martial arts to cooking, the Finesse believes that everyone possesses a skill or knowledge that they can share with others. The Events section also encourages users to connect and find people of the same interest to create a passionate community. At the same time, it yields opportunity for them to keep on striving and refining their skill sets.
SHARING
CRAFT SKILLS BERNICE TEO
CELEBRATE See your dream party come to life through the creative hands of crafters.
SHARING
CRAFT SKILLS
Party products readily available
Crafters provide customised services
Celebrate is a party decoration marketplace
Crafters can also tag their photos to
where users and crafters can interact to
showcase how their craft items will look like
make their dream party come true.
when assembled together in a party setting.
Visually loaded with party inspirations, users
Using Celebrate, everyone's dream party can
can view the party products readily available
come to life in uniquely customised ways
or contact suitable crafters to custom make
through the nifty hands of the crafters!
their items.
SHARING
AMONG NEIGHBORS
NUR SYAHIRAH
NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR Building a sharing community among neighbors
SHARING
AMONG NEIGHBORS
Neighborly issues in one place
The Neighbor to Neighbor app brings people
In addition, the app also recommends you
living nearby together by providing all the
neighbours whom you can request for help
neighborly information in one place.
or borrow items from.
It contains a feed which allows neighbors
By facilitating communication among
to notify one another of any events
people behind closed doors, Neighbor
(e.g. renovations) happening to seek for
to Neighbor aims to promote a sense
kind understanding.
of inclusiveness and belonging in the neighborhood.
SHARING
TIME SKILLS RESOURCES AMANDA LEOW
GOOD SHEEP A collaborative help-giving platform for busy Singaporeans to reach out to those in need by creating low commitment events/tasks to accommodate their schedules.
SHARING
TIME SKILLS RESOURCES
Dividing the help needed to make volunteering easier Singaporeans wants to help but are too
Logistics needed for the event are
busy to do so. ‘Good sheep’ initiates
also neatly segregated for volunteers
the first step by identifying and
to contribute what they can.
suggesting voluntary organizations and events which you are most passionate
By embracing the power of the crowd,
to help in. Event durations are broken
‘Good sheep’ makes volunteering feel
down to blocks of two hours so that
manageable and enjoyable!
you can provide short helps, creating a low commitment approach.
SHARING
KINDNESS GLADYS TOH
NEIGHBOURLY SG A volunteering application enabling Singaporeans to lend a helping hand to their elderly neighbours at one’s convenience.
SHARING
KINDNESS
Flexible volunteering opportunities
Volunteering becomes spontaneous and
On your way home from work? Why not
flexible with Neighbourly SG.
help an elderly buy a packet of dinner? Have a car and 30 minutes to spare?
Instead of being assigned to tasks, this app
Why not fetch an injured neighbour to
lets you choose volunteering opportunities
the nearby clinic for her appointment?
based on your own schedule and routine. Once you are done, share your story on Neighbourly SG to inspire others to volunteer more!
SHARING
KNOWLEDGE
SHARING
T R AV E L EXPERIENCES YEOH XUETING
O’HAI Share an experience, meet a new friend, travel like a local
SHARING
TRAVEL EXPERIENCES
Personalized travels O’HAI is a travel application specially designed to shape personalized traveling experiences. You can ask for a unique itinerary, created by a local, to avoid tourist traps and discover hidden gems that only true locals know about.
For deeper appreciation and exploration of the destination, you can also engage your itinerary creator as a personal guide for a day or for the entire trip!
O’HAI forges friendship among the wanderlust by helping them share their love for traveling.
SHARING
GOALS
GOH JEE YAN
ALGO Keeping and achieving goals with the help of an encouraging and experienced community
SHARING
GOALS
Making goals seem attainable Everyone has different personal goals but yet people are inspired by one another’s goals through social media. ‘I want to look like her!’, ‘I want to have a bedroom like this next time.’, ‘Maybe I want to try her diet plan!’
Algo recognizes this need for people to share their goal experiences to motivate one another to achieve their goals.
Simply publish your desired goal on Algo, break it down into smaller milestones, and gather a community to inspire you to become a better you!
SHARING
EVENTS SEAMUS CHNG
LATCHGO An mobile application to facilitate the creation and sharing of events across the entire school campus
SHARING
EVENTS
Crowd-sourced event creation LatchGo begins at event creation. Anyone on
LatchGo also allows other school events to be
campus can post his/her idea of an event,
publicized so that users can share deals, look at
check its popularity, crowdsource fellow
who else is going and also create reminders in
organizers, invite friends, collaboratively
their own calendars to not miss any event again!
discuss and vote for things to do with the event. The success of every event is thus shared by all participants and organizers.
Acknowledgments
As a studio, we would like to thank all friends and family members who have generously shared their thoughts, time and spontaneity with the designers during concept testing, usability testing and video-making. Thank you to all other lecturers for listening and providing valuable advice as well.
Studio Lead
Yian Ling Cheong
Designers
Muhammad Redza Kaera Chen Syamimi Mokhsin Dawn Ang Muhammad Mubeen Yap Yan Chuan Bernice Teo Nur Syahirah Amanda Leow Gladys Toh Yeoh Xueting Goh Jee Yan Seamus Chng