Favor.it by Stephane Boghossian

Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano Three-year BA Design A.A. 2013-2014 Favor.it ÂŠStephane Boghossian (4934DE) Student Advisor: Niko Koronis

Type in a service

“IN LIFE, MONEY DOESN’T BUY HAPPINESS” Michael Norton. 5

me. www.cargocollective.com/sbdesign stephane.b260893@gmail.com Milan, Italy +393423926693 Beirut, Lebanon +9613313340

Stéphane Boghossian is an Antwerp-born, Beirut-raised aspiring designer with Armenian and jewelry-making family roots. After completing his French baccalaureate in Lebanon, he branched off the popular science-focused education and career track to study Product Design (major) and Interior Design (minor) at Milan’s at NABA. Stéphane has completed internships at design companies such as Tamawa (Jewellery, Belgium), ACID (Product, Lebanon), Saatchi and Saatchi (Graphic, Lebanon) and Rachid Karam Architects (Architecture, Lebanon). He has a passion for luxury product design, and recently won awards for his work for "Luigi Quaglia" and "Design per l’Imprese". He is also a photography aficionado in his spare time.

A special thanks to 8

Student Advisor Lawyer Graphic Design Interior Teacher Interior Design Student Interior Design Student Interior Design Student Design Student Design Student Brothers

Niko Koronis Dana Ward Emre Telli Maurizio Scalzi Giulia Bencini Noemi H R Ida Sofie Grimstad Josephine Visser Francesca Ciuffreda John & Patrick B. 9

INDEX. 10

SECTION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

TITLE INTRODUCTION RESEARCH PROJECT STEP BY STEP WEBSITE RESULT AND FUTURE BIBLIO(WEBO)GRAPHY

PAGE 12 16 56 78 94 104 110 11

INTRO.

WHAT ABOUT HOME AND ITS SURROUNDING ?

The thesis will look into new domestic scenarios and how these can relate to a new kind of domestic situations. The house has been the same for the last hundred years, however current social and economical developments urge us to rethink the character of the domestic environment and its surroundings.

RE SEA RCH.

An article that I read started my research. The revolution of internet improved the way we communicate, meet , buy and pay. In around 90% of the world, people live from what they have, what others sell to them, and what others give away. A simple neighboorhood can be a perfect market and could work standalone through exchange services and time without using money.

ONE

• Hammering Man = Celebration of the worker using his mind and hands to create the world Rise of outsourcing, offshoring and growth of sophisticated supply chains - create opportunities (Service Design) Many more people are involved in different occupations that help to supply it - contribution on the chain • Nanotechnology : new therapeutic substances carrying information on their surface that can be used to direct them to particular cells in body - continuous manufacturing • The boomerang effect: some production is moving back to rich countries Labor represents only a small part of the overall cost of making and selling their product: “candle-maker” • Materials: new game-changing ingredients: new industrial baGery / hybrid / carbon fibre / from what people throw / natural bonding agent extracted from discarded rice husks / nonoscale structure from nature / Viruses / database • Machines are highly automated , humans sits in front of computer while machine does everything Automated milling machines that can swap their own tools, cut in multiple directions and “feel” if wrong

• 3d Printing - build things by deposing materials, layer by layer (additive manufacturing) Smarter and more flexible - mass customization of finished products / weight saving / big saving in material costs / complex designs - Hybrid printing : produce the outline of a shape, saving material which can then be machined for precision. - Do-it-yourself with open-source software - personal manufacturing revolution • All together now - collaborative manufacturing - crowdsourcing (social manufacturing) ex. Quirky – Shapeways Community = sounding board “once in digital form, things become easy to copy Rise of Internet as a tool – online services - digitization • Automation: lights-out manufacturing - ROBOTS Way of doing things - not human, not machines but Micro-organisms that have been genetically engineered Smarter soRware - digitalization in manufacturing • Digital Currencies: new trend on online payments and social network --> “Time Bank is revolutionary but not yet the future”

TWO

INTERNET AS A DISCOVERY The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/ IP) to link several billion devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), the infrastructure to support email, and peer-to-peer networks for file sharing and telephony. Internet is found in every corner of every street in every cities. User uses internet everywhere: in their home, in their office and on the street on their mobile phones. They are constantly connected to the worldwide web.

THREE

SMARTPHONES AS TOOLS A smartphone, or smart phone, is a mobile phone with more advanced computing capability and connectivity than basic feature phones. Early smartphones typically combined the features of a mobile phone with those of another popular consumer device, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA), a media player, a digital camera, or a GPS navigation unit. Modern smartphones include all of those features plus the features of a touchscreen computer, including web browsing, Wi-Fi, and 3rd-party apps. Currently, about 90% of handset sales worldwide are for devices driven by Googles Android and Apples iOS mobile operating systems. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There Will Soon Be One Smartphone For Every Five People In The Worldâ&#x20AC;?

FOUR

SOCIAL NETWORK BECOMES A MUST A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations) and a set of the dyadicties between these actors. Over the past two decades, one of the most dynamic developments related to digital media has been the rise of social network sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram. Since the launch of the first social applications in the late 1990s, they attracted over a billion active users worldwide, many of whom have incorporated digital social interactions into their everyday lives.

Today, social technologies dominate the zeitgeist, spawning new communities, where there were once just distributed individuals, and amplifying the size and significance of various publics. This has set the stage for unprecedented collective mobilisations, protest movements and open-source projects that have left their marks in the brief history of the Internet. Given the current buzz around social media, 2014 is expected to be a critical period for the genre of social network sites, when both users and businesses will have to cope with the challenges posed by the changing nature of social interactions, design choices and privacy norms, as the Internet continues to rewire more and more aspects of our social lives.

FIVE

MEET PEOPLE ONLINE Dating people that you meet online is the new trend of today. A lot of interesting new concepts are coming out in applications for smartphones. One of the most famous at the moment is: Tinder. “Tinder is how people meet. It’s like real life, but better.” Tinder is a mobile app providing location-based service dedicated to social discovery, in order to facilitate telecommunication between mutually interested users. Other applications are available for homosexual, bisexual and milfs like: Grindr, Badoo, Skout, Moonit and much more. (More than 200 apps on the Apple Store)

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Social Fabric by Zooty Lab 2007

INSPIRATIONAL PROJECT: THE REPRESENTATION OF OUR SOCIAL WORLD Idea/problem/context: While tending not to let things slide in professional environments because of the immediate repercussions, we often neglect our personal lives, where the effect of our actions are less apparent. Good at building systems that assist us in structured environments like the workplace, we find it difficult to design for the ambiguous, less tangible nature of our social lives.

How it works: Your phone›s screen shows a crowd of human figures, each an avatar of one of your friends, acquaintances or relatives. The frequency of all digital communications between you and each person, which the system monitors, determines that avatar›s posture: an alert stance indicates frequent recent contact, for example; a lethargic posture or turned back means neglect. You can also register non-digital contacts manually. The avatars can be grouped manually according to sentiment, category, and so on, or programmed to begin clustering together before an upcoming event: your family before a birthday, say.

What it is: The Social Fabric is a representation of your social world, displayed as a single visual array on your mobile phone. It does not replace your address book or calendar but keeps you subtly informed about which relationships are prospering, which you have neglected, and the overall state of your social fabric.

Value/potential: More generally, this project shows how, as well as hard information (amply served by current applications), personal management tools can also record and represent the ‹softer›, more ambiguous, but still central aspects of our lives - and with no less elegance and power.

SEVEN

PAYPAL = A NEW WAY TO PAY PayPal is the faster, safer way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account. PayPal is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders. It is subject to the US economic sanction list, and subject to other rules and interventions required by US laws or government.

PayPal is an acquirer, performing payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users, for which it charges a fee. It may also charge a fee for receiving money, proportional to the amount received. The fees depend on the currency used, the payment option used, the country of the sender, the country of the recipient, the amount sent and the recipientâ&#x20AC;şs account type.[4] In addition, eBay purchases made by credit card through PayPal may incur extra fees if the buyer and seller use different currencies. On October 3, 2002, PayPal became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay. Its corporate headquarters are in San Jose, California, United States at eBayâ&#x20AC;şs North First Street satellite office campus. The company also has significant operations in Omaha, ScoGsdale, CharloGe and Austin in the United States; Chennai in India; Dublin in Ireland; Kleinmachnow in Germany; and Tel Aviv in Israel. From July 2007, PayPal has operated across the European Union as a Luxembourg-based bank.

EIGHT

BITCOIN: THE NEW CURRENCY IN VOGUE! Bitcoin is a new currency that was created in 2009 by an unknown person using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Transactions are made with no middlemen – meaning, no banks! There are no transaction fees and no need to give your real name. More merchants are beginning to accept them: You can buy webhosting services, pizza or even manicures. Bitcoin can be used to buy merchandise anonymously. In addition, international payments are easy and cheap because Bitcoin are not tied to any country or subject to regulation. Small businesses may like them because there are no credit card fees. Some people just buy Bitcoin as an investment, hoping that they’ll go up in value. Transfers People can send Bitcoin to each other using mobile apps or their computers. It’s similar to sending cash digitally.

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START-UP STORY 1 CHICKEN = 2 COKES (in Vietnam) After 40km of biking in Thai Binh, we stopped at a local house to rest and eat. We all got cokes and sprites as a reward but 2 cokes were missing. So the host took a chicken with him and paid a visit to the neighbors. He came back a few minutes later with the two extra bottles of coke. I was wondering what was going on, so I asked him what happened and he answered: I gave him a chicken, he gave me cokes, this is how it works :)

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TEN

HAPPY DESIGN

= GIVE AWAY THINGS YOU DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T NEED AND OTHERS DO

Barter Quest is an Internet company based in New York City that facilitates the cashless barter of a broad variety of goods, services, and real estate by consumers and businesses worldwide. As a pure trading site, Barter Quest offers as an alternative to buying and selling to receive products without cash. Barter Quest provides a trading platform based on proprietary, patent pending technology that instantly matches users for two parties and multi-party trades.

ELEVEN

DESPERATE HOUSEWIFE NEIGHBOORHOOD = “THE PERFECT NEIGHBOORHOOD SYSTEM”

Desperate Housewives (2004–2012) Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood, after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor. The first scene of the Season 1 Episode 1 starts with a very good example of a neighbor’ s favor. Whenever someone needs something urgently, they only have to knock on your door to ask for it. Borrowing tools and doing favors for each other is the right way to live.

TWELVE

EBAY = BUY NOW OR BIT ? Ebay is an American multinational Internet consumer-to-consumer corporation , headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded by Pierre Omidyar in 1995, and it became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. In addition to its auction-style sellings, the website has since expanded to include â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buy It Nowâ&#x20AC;? standard shopping; shopping by UPC, ISBN, or other kind of SKU (via Half.com); online classified advertisements (via Kijiji or eBay Classifieds); online event ticket trading (via StubHub); online money transfers (via PayPal) and other services.

THIRTEEN

TIME BANKING = I GIVE 1H OF MY TIME, YOU GIVE TOO.

Time banking is a tool by which a group of people can create an alternative economic model where they exchange their time and skills, rather than acquire goods and services through the use of money or any other state-backed value. Everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time is equal no matter what each hour is spent doing! 1 hour of help = 1 time hour.

PROS Time Banks have been used to reduce recidivism rates with diversionary programs for first-time juvenile offenders; facilitate re-entry of for ex-convicts; deliver health care, job training and social services in public housing complexes; facilitate substance abuse recovery; prevent institutionalization of severely disabled children through parental support networks; provide transportation for homebound seniors in rural areas; deliver elder care, community health services and hospice care; and foster women's rights initiatives in Senegal.

CONS (non-theoretical problems) The first is the difficulty of communicating to potential members exactly what makes time banking different, or "getting people to understand the difference between Time Banking and traditional volunteering.

EXAMPLE #1 // Hey, Neighbor!

Hey, Neighbor! is a platform for developing trusted neighbor networks and help each other when required. Concept done originally for the USA, but never realized.

EXAMPLE #2 // Hour Exchange Portland

House Exchange Portland Help your neighbors and earn time credits that can be used to receive services you need from aUser are from Portland only.

EXAMPLE #3 // Time Republik

TIMEREPUBLIK is a global UK community where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to fulfill needs from different variety. Beta Version live now. Working since May 2014 (still legacy problems)

EXAMPLE #4 // Flyplist Flyplist Friends helping friends find trusted businesses “Flyplist is your own world-wide business directory - a private or sharable trusted business list that’s ever-growing and always available anytime, anywhere.” Was available in US but not anymore because of Legacy problems.

EXAMPLE #5 // Ya ka s’aider YaKaSaider is a french platform available only in french. = entraide et échange de services entre particuliers. Le troc de services est facile et gratuit pour consommer malin et faire des économies. // Sharing and exchange of services between individuals. Barter services is easy and free to consume well and save money. It is Bank of time. http://www.yakasaider.fr/

EXAMPLE #6 // Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;accorderie Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Accorderie and Troc-services are two new Canadian services available only in french. One is available in Nille and one in Montreal. The Accorderie is a system of exchange of services between individuals and cooperative education. Welcome to Barter-Services.com, an exchange site completely free services. Available since 2014 http://accorderie.ca/ http://www.troc-services.com/

EXAMPLE #7 // LikeMind LikeMind â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our goal is to provide the best service ever created to meet new people in an easy, fun and safe way.â&#x20AC;? Available in Chicago, Rotterdam, Hague, Amsterdam, San Francisco. Since 2014. From Berlin, Germany.

EXAMPLE #8 // Todoist

Todoist “Achieve more everyday in your work and your daily life” Todoist lets you manage your tasks anywhere. At home. At school. At work. Online. Offline. And on 13 platforms and devices. https://en.todoist.com/ by doist studio

FOURTEEN CASE STUDIES Milan is a busy city. People are in a rush. With the increase of internet flow, smarphones become inivitable. They have a lot of things to do in one day. Hence, they tend to spend time on things that are not necessarily important.

This study was done in 2014 for 5 people with different ages, hobbies, living situations, relationships.

// // // // //

10h

11h

5h Hours stayed on Social Network / Smartphones per day by 5 people.

12 8 Tasks includes: - Supermarket - Kids matter (babysitter) - Cooking - Work - Personal Stuffs

2 5 Number of tasks to do everyday by 5 people

30 25

5 90

Secondary Money includes: - shopping - Supermarket - Drink/Restaurant - Party - Taxi

15 Secondary Money spent in one normal week day (Thursday) by 5 people

PRO JECT.

FAVOR.IT

[ˈFEɪV(Ə)RɪT/ ]

= an online platform and App that builds trusted networks between people living in Milan. It is an easy way to exchange services.

LOGO DESIGN

FAVOR = AN ACT OF KINDNESS BEYOND WHAT IS DUE OR USUAL.

IN ITALY

Color

ORANGE. HEX: #FF6600 RGB: 255,102,0

Font

ASAP BOLD OBLIQUE available download on http://www.google.com/fonts/ specimen/Asap

Giulia babysits Tomassoâ&#x20AC;şs daughter while he is at work.

Giulia joins Favor.it, register her skills and the skills she needs

Noemi has Giulia visit her studio to practice some yoga

Maurizio feeds Giuliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chickens while she is away on holiday

We can make life that little bit easier and more fun for everyone in our community through communication and sharing of our skills.

Stephane installs a new guttering system in Maurizioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house

Tomasso spends an hour helping Lena in her garden

When Ida has to work late, Lena cooks dinner for her and her children

Ida helped Stephane clean his kitchen

FAVOR.IT

USER 1: I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pick up my dress for tonight. USER 2: I do it for you as you need it !

It creates A â&#x20AC;&#x153;digitalâ&#x20AC;? personal wealth / new hobbies It saves Time and Money It can help reduce Poverty in big cities People with low revenue and big number of skills could help other people in need in exchange of medicine, safety and shelter...

See Result and future // section 6

Sustainable medium. market. â&#x20AC;&#x153;walletâ&#x20AC;?. A market that is sufficient by itself based only on the market demand.

See Result and future // section 6

EXCHANGE OF SERVICES

You can’t right now? Others may do it for you!

+ You do me a favor. I do one for you.

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THE NOTION OF VARIABLES People asks service=asker People do a service=doer A, B, C, D are 4 random people.

#HASHTAGS .POINTS *RATINGS BLACK LIST COMPETITION CIRCLE LEVEL UP

70 72 73 74 75 76 77 69

#HASHTAGS A #walkthedog for B. B #cook for C. C #travel with A.

Hashtags are available for research process. Also, a common big database of existing hash tags are available for everybody. If a user needs to add a hash tags, feel free to send a mail to: hashtags@favor.it

A, B, C, D are 4 random people.

#dog #pickup #babysitter #run #travel #visit #help #dance #sing #fixit #cook #cat #design #garden

#shopping #park #eat #drink #party #plumb #sport #teacher #pray #learn #language #drive #bicycle #walk

#photography #run #sport #painkiller

AND MANY MORE... 71

.POINTS =

MONEY (VIRTUAL CURRENCY)

According to the service value, the points can decrease or increase. Every user starts with a fixed number of 25 points. Points are gained when you do a service for somebody else. Points are lost when you ask for services (you give it away to the person who did the service for you). The asker can ask a favor for a fixed number of points or a number of points that can be decided by the doer. In this second case, the asker can decide which doer to pick depending on how many points they are asking for.

*RATINGS = TRUST

A #COOK FOR B A GIVE 5 STARS IF THE SERVICE IS GOOD The rating is available to build a more trusted network of servicers. If the service is well done, the asker will rate the doer between 4 and 5 stars. If the service is not well done, the asker will rate the doer between 1 and 3 stars. The better ratings you have, the more you have chances to be picked again.

BLACK LIST =

LIST OF PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT TRUSTED

People that obtain a profile with minus points (-15 and over) will be listed as in the black list. These people should not be trusted and can not serve anyone anymore. A donation of points could be done from other users in order to come back “alive”.

COMPETITION #COOK FOR D - 10 POINTS MAX A proposes 7 points B proposes 10 points C proposes 5 points D chooses A

Asker can have the choice to propose a maximum value of points on his service. The doer user will propose a number of points. At the end, the asker will choose the person who can do the service. (Approval)

CIRCLE

ONE SERVICE: ARE YOU TRUSTWORTHY OR NOT? Any user will build a circle of trust in order to facilitate his next “askings” and “doings”. Once a doer does for an asker, they will choose if they want to add him in his circle of trust. In you profile, you will have an instant demand of services from your past doer and asker in order to build a certain of trust between users.

LEVEL UP! (1) A IS NEW. (2) B IS INTERMEDIATE (3) C IS EXPERT Profile (4) D IS PRO. complete

Newcomer

Expert

Pro.

50 %

70 %

90 %

Number of ratings

Seniority (month)

Services done

Intermediate

Hashtag allowed

Points gained

STEP -BYSTEP

# On date of the service The choosen one will do the service as asked

Write the service with #hashtags you are looking for or offering to be done. Sign up and Log in Log in or Sign up from any social network account. This will let other people find you

Other people answer People around your area who are interested in your proposal can offer an average of points

When the service is done The doer receives the amount of points agreed

Complete your profile After loging in, complete your profile You rate the doer According to the perfection of the service, you rate the doer as he will gain your trust and gain others trusts

You agree on One You approave the one that you decide is suitable for your service

LOG-IN

SERVICE

Answer the service and the circle continues

Search for services around you or according to your interests

On date of the service You do the service as asked

The asker rates you According to the perfection of the service, the asker rates the doer which improves the latterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s profile and trustworthy

Gain Trust and Points After completing your service you gain points. More points equals trust

When the service is done You receive the amount of points that agreed previously

Level Up! As you gain trust from other, you level up.

SERVICE

RESULT

Type in a service.

HOME SCREEN

Type in a ser vice.

MOVEMENT

Type in a ser vice.

LOG-IN OPTIONS

ENTER INFO

Type in a ser vice.

using face-

using facebook

giulia.bencine@gmail.com

using mail

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create an

create an account

LOG-IN

Message

Menu bar Menu: - Profile - Messages - Offer a service - Find random services - Search around you / by hashtag - Settings - Notifications Log out from your account

Level 2

Profile Message

45 points

Offer

5 stars

Random

Josephine Maurizio

Giulia

2 month

Search Settings

#travel

#dance

#music

#create

Notification

#park

#write

#cook

#dog

LOG OUT

First Screen // Menu

Antonio

Second Screen

INTERFACE

Search Engine

Search distance (Range 5km)

Allow messages from other users Alert when service is done (both users evaluation)

Search Engine

Km Vibrate on Notifications

Vibrate on Notification / messages

Vibrate on Notifications yes

yes

Direct Messages no

Direct Messages yes

Notify me when service finished yes

Notify me when service finished Need help? Contact us yes

no Privacy Policy Terms of Service Log out Delete Account

SETTINGS

Profile picture + Name Level 2 45 points 5 stars Giulia 2 month

#travel

#dance

#music

#create

#park

#write

#cook

#dog

Level Points Ratings Seniority Hashtags

Edit profile

USER PROFILE

POST A SERVICE

What?

HOW IT IS SHOWN

Walk the dog for one hour in the park

Leave for bit Fixed number

Hashtags Where? When?

fix

for 10

max points

Points

GIULIA, 21 #walk the dog for one hour in the park on Saturday 23rd October at 14:00 in Parco Tantardini for max 10 points

#dog, #park

Parco Tantardini

Saturday 23rd October from 3-4pm fix

for 10

max points

Confirm

Propose

56 services

Edit number

WRITE-A-SERVICE

New notification

Maurizio accepted #walk the dog for one hour in the

12 points were received from Antonio ! You have 55+12 points now!

4 people answered for #pickup the

Notification

NOTIFICATIONS

Maurizio accepted #walk the dog for one hour in the

12 points were received from Antonio ! You have 55+12 points now!

4 people answered for #pickup the

CONFIRMATION

NOTIFICATION

Profile picture Name+age Description of service Confirm

MAURIZIO, 33 #print design project at “Stamperia” on May 24th at 14:00 in Zone Centro Storico for 12 points Yes

Chat with Maurizio Add to Calendar

Favor Print at the Stamperia with Maurizio in 2hours

Add to reminder Notify me 2h before

56 services

RANDOM SEARCH (FIXED NUMBER OF POINTS)

MAURIZIO, 33 #print design project at “Stamperia” on May 24th at 14:00 in Zone Centro Storico for max 12 points

PROPOSE

NOTIFY

CONFIRM

MAURIZIO, 33 #print design project at “Stamperia” on May 24th at 14:00 in Zone Centro Storico for max 12 points

Favor Giulia propose 10 points for #print design projet at Stamperia. View to confirm.

Maurizio - 10

Josephine - 11

Shadi - 5

Valentina - 8

No Propose

56 services

Submit

RANDOM SEARCH (MAXIMUM POINTS)

View profile

Maurizio proposed 10 points

CONFIRMATION

MESSAGE POP-UP

CONVERSATION

1 Maurizio Josephine Antonio Chat with Maurizio Add to Calendar

Hey, how are you?

Hey, how are you? Hey, I am good, I have some questions

Hey, I am good, I have some questions yeah sure, ask me.

yeah sure, ask me.

What kind of paper you want?

What kind of paper you want? A4, normal, color

Add to reminder

Notify me 2h before

ok! I will be there at 13:45! There is always many people at lunch

will meet you there at 14:00, have to eat first

Ok! perfect. see you tomorow!

MESSAGE NOTIFICATIONS

MAP VIEW

SEARCH RESULT

Map zoom

#dog

Settings MAURIZIO,33 #walk the #dog in Parco Tantardini Saturday 25th January 2014 from 2-4pm for 13 points

Find me something with #dog

More people Yes Antonio, 13 points

Theo, 15 points

SEARCH BY HASHTAGS

REMINDERS TO GIULIA

REMINDERS TO MAURIZIO

Favor You gave 12 points to Maurizio. You have 45-12 points now! Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to rate him !

Favor 12 points were received from Maurizio ! You have 55+12 points now! He rated you 4 stars.

NOTIFICATIONS

WEB SITE

HOME PAGE

Logo - Log in - Language Small description

How it works in brief

To show how many people use the app

Example of service

Smartphone apps

PROFILE

Profile: Giulia Bencini Evolution of Giulia Level - Seniority - Points - Stars Hashtags Past Services (done/served) Edit - Answer - Rate

Search using # Accept the Service Message Josephine Circle of trust Services around you from your past services / Hashtags (can be shown in List or Map)

Write a service hashtags - Date / Time - Location Maximum Points proposing

100

Search by Hashtags When you click, more info

Write a service

this is how the service will look

101

ANSWER A SERVICE

102

Accept the service Accept to serve Josephine Message Josephine Propose a number of points

103

104

RE SU LT

A N D

FU TU RE

105

RESULT

It creates A â&#x20AC;&#x153;digitalâ&#x20AC;? personal wealth / new hobbies It saves Time and Money It decreases Poverty / Homelessness in big cities People with low revenue and big number of skills could help other people in need in exchange of medicine, safety and shelter... It creates a sustainable Market that is sufficient by itself based only on market demand.

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FUTURE

No need for money, completely sustainable medium Market demand = market supply Sustainable wallet because you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use your money, you save it for something that canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be bought without money. Creation of a new field Tutorials could be a new field of exchange For example: teach a language, how to cook, dance, fix your phone, etc. Extension to other cities People from all around the world can exchange services from one city to the other! For example: car sharing, package delivery, etc.

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THIS COULD WORK ON A GLOBAL SCALE.

Driving people around in many cities (UBER)

Rice plantation in Vietnam

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Shisha delivery in Beirut

“Free hugs with me” in Amsterdam

THIS COULD WORK WITH ANY KIND OF SERVICE.

Services proposed during plane travel (massage)

The woman who charges $60 an hour for spooning in NYC

The company that offers grandmas for rent in Texas

Have your postcard written by professionals

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BIB LIO GRA PHY

A N D

WE BO GRA PHY 111

Bibliography • Design As Art by Bruno Munari • Making Good: Finding Meaning, Money, and Community in a Changing World by Dev Aujla, Billy Parish • Fritz Kahn (English, German and French Edition) by Uta and Thilo von Debschitz • The Economics Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by DK Publishing • Objects of Desire: Design and Society Since 1750 by Adrian Forty • Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by Michael Braungart • Objectified by Paola Antonelli • Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary by Fukasawa, Naoto • The third Industrial Revolution by The Economist

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Webography • http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hey-neighbor • http://www.hourexchangeportland.org/ • http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/time-banking-an-idea-whose-time-has-come • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_currency • http://e-flux.com/timebank/ • http://www.businessinsider.com/15-billion-smartphones-in-the-world-22013-2 • http://zoot.tistory.com/91 -- https://timerepublik.com/ • http://www.barterquest.com/ • http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites • http://money.cnn.com/infographic/technology/what-is-bitcoin/ • http://www.techhive.com/article/199243/a_brief_history_of_smartphones.html • http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Asap • http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2014/01/15/the-evolution-of-social-network-sites-in-2014/

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Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano Three-year BA Design A.A. 2013-2014 Favor.it ÂŠStephane Boghossian (4934DE) Student Advisor: Niko Koronis