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Business ThinkTank No.46 - Tinitell

2014-11-30T18:53:00.000-08:00

Innovation can derive from combination. Good design can derive from removal of things that's not necessary. This is the device that good innovation and good design meet. Tinitell.

Tinitell is a watch equipped with the phone function for kids. Tinitell will link to their parent's phone to connect them together seamlessly. Parents can track their kids because the device is composed of GPS equipment. Design attracts kids to wear it. It seems they are playing toys and willing to wear it as a cool gadget.

This is not new thing but it's a new way to present the concept to the individual target group. It's answered by Family. Success.

http://www.tinitell.com/

Business ThinkTank No.46 - Digital Touch Micro Donation

2014-11-30T18:45:00.001-08:00

At London subway, you can donate your tiny amount of money left in the subway card by touching the device attached on the subway. I may call it 'Micro Donation'. The money of cents can be donated to the box and people might not think lots and perceive it's very small things to give that.

If this concept applies to Thailand, I'll make a device that can deduct the last digit of Rabbit cards and put that amount to the charitable association. Or we join with companies that have their own deposit cards like Starbucks, mPay, TrueMoney.

Micro donation is the area we should consider. Think small doesn't mean Small Money :)

Business ThinkTank No.45 - Solar Cell Phone Booth

2014-11-30T18:37:00.000-08:00

The public telephone booth is now obsolete because of the advent of mobile phones. In London, they turn unused telephone booth into solar cell booths to be a beacon for charging devices.

We have look for the unused inventory and try to exploit them somehow. Definitely, in Thailand we have many phone booths standing without utilizing them lots like previously. In addition, we also have taxi stations built but not used. If we can turn these assets into something that can be benefits to people even though it's not free, if really useful they are willing to pay for it!

Remember, remember. No asset values 0!

Business ThinkTank No.44- Sell things in Taxi

2014-01-09T19:09:00.000-08:00

The number of taxi prevails in Bangkok and you can ride on anywhere you are. In taxi, you may accidentally find that some cabs offer you free candies or newspaper. What if it turns into business or additional services rather than just taking you to destination.

Let's imagine. You get on a taxi, spend a boring time in there. Activities you seem to have are sleeping, or sitting and watching outside. But if there are things you can do more inside like buy goods or read books, trips and those offerings can charge you some amount of money. That's possible and sounds interesting?

People love shopping, and well when they're retained in the small space and nothing to do. If we provide more activities they can do. That must be great and profitable! See?

Business ThinkTank No.43- Night Deliveries

2013-12-26T18:52:00.002-08:00

Night seems less activities, less traffic. And less opportunity to do business? If you think so, it is- however nothing is wasteful in the business world.

UseLuna - Moonlight Deliveries - is a start-up company to offer sending things to customers during night period. What is beneficial? Yes, no traffic jam, well-weather, and romantic.

Day or night. New or old. Black or white. The difference doesn't matter but when you see the opportunity at one side. Definitely, there is a great big chance at another opposite side waiting you catch the golds.

Good luck and Happy new year 2014.

Business ThinkTank No.42- iQueue

2013-06-13T04:01:00.001-07:00

I'm very irritated to restaurants where their customers have to do long queues for many minutes. While waiting, if good management, there will be someone who are responsible to jot down your queue and announce when your turn is there. The time gap is going waste if restaurants don't offer any value, like order food beforehand. And here is our opportunity to solve it.

For popular food restaurants, iQueue app is the right mate to place into their work process. The app can provide many benefits to waiting customers to not get bored and leave before their turn by allowing them to play games or do some activities relating to restaurants' food or brands. Fairer, the longer they wait, the more they gain points and use points to exchange valued-items when reach some amount designated.

Great idea? Need someone initiate and act. Please.

Business ThinkTank No.41- Time-Related Advertisement

2013-06-13T03:49:00.002-07:00

Nowadays, Ad agenaycy has many methods to pl with audience. The social marketing/ viral communication is pervasive among all ages. While things mentioned exist digitally, another physical view is also rather more interesting when we borrow the power of time.

Time can deal with Sun and Moon. Both yield lightness and darkness as well as limitation in terms of day and night span. During days, we're hit by sunshine and sky. On another flip, we face moonlight and nightfall. If we consider time's characteristics clearly and have insights on it, we're capable to exhibit advertising media sounding distinctive.

Like in Korea, a company employes sunlight to form a QR code shadow. The crafted object must be touched the light with the right time and angle so as to produce particular shadow according the shape of the object. When the time comes, e.g. about 14.00 PM when the sun is diagonally on heads of us, the QR code appears perfectly. People will scan the code to get discount coupons and keep them into their mobile phones or using immediately.

In Chicago, the ad billboard, among sun dominance, doesn't display anytime. But when the sky goes dark, the picture is attractively revealed to the hangouts within that art frame.

There are many applications to deal with time-engaging communications however it still depends on how well you pick up contexts to express messages.

Sharp Idea 2

2013-01-23T02:50:00.000-08:00

I like collecting the good statements quoted in the books. And the sharp ideas below derive from:
Source: ราคาคือของจริง, วรากรณ์ สามโกเศศ

Here they are:

Inflation is one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation: Milton Friedman
We make ourselves rich by making our wants few: Henry David Thoreau
Debt is the worst poverty - M.G. Lichtwer
Happiness is not perfected until it is shared - Jane Porter
Not to know is bad. Not to want to know is worst - African Proverb

Business ThinkTank No.40- Books and Toys

2012-10-11T20:16:00.001-07:00

When you were a child and read the fantasy book, had you ever imagined that magical objects or fairy-tale character could be touchable. GoldieBlox is the initiator upon this thought.

The company provides a book that instructs girls many ways in constructing toys. This toy is designed to promote favor in engineering to girls. Together with a book, toy can encourage girls to play it with fun and passion to pursue engineering-education path. Of course, the book is not a normal one. It's written as a story telling about a girl who loves invent things. In this way, girls can enjoy reading and playing as well as ingraining their engineering-oriented mindset.

So, I believe we can copy and develop this excellent concept from this case to other areas. We may offer painting kit to let children draw high-profiled artist paintings in correspondence of storytelling in the book. To wrap it shortly, build passion, let it drive action. ;)

Business ThinkTank No.39- Bundle Sells

2012-09-13T04:33:00.002-07:00

Selling each may cost you more than offering in bundles. And people sometimes don't want to waste time to buy a single item in a particular purpose.

I found the medicare website sets the product for cancer patients who face difficulty to keep their life in safe by using the aiding equipment. New patients usually have no awful experience what they are coping with, thereby lacking of necessary things to ail pains occurred.

The point of this business is to go for niche markets and provide groups of things to customers who hardly use them but become very essential when bad situation comes or special events approach.

Sets could be: medical box, adventurous tools, survival equipment, flood-fighter package, etc.

Yet not easy, you have to study lots to collect right items and encapsulate them into one chuck.

Business ThinkTank No.38- Up-To-You Donation

2012-08-15T19:58:00.000-07:00

On our ways towards somewhere, we often meet street musicians conducting themselves amongst flowing stream of crowd. If content to performance, we just admire in mind and give a little money to them.

In the era of web2.0, audiences are centrally attentive to service offers. Thus, business changes and donations either.

From now on, we can choose one of the music we would like to listen to by putting pennies into one of the bottles which are labelled in front of it about genre of music. Like a jukebox ;)

Voila, the example is this.

Remember, let users create their own product. They will be happy and you too ;D

Design Library

2012-08-07T21:09:00.001-07:00

This post is dedicated to displaying design examples and manners across the globe.

1. Road Tripper - Plan and manage your trip
Design subject: Patterns and Interface for map application

2. Stanley Piano - Play songs according to Twitter
Design subject: Page transition, and graphical menu

Frint in Japanese

2012-08-06T20:08:00.000-07:00

When I experienced the Japan internship, I wrote the Japanese blog at http://ameblo.jp/piyawits/. Here I expressed and shared my what's-going-on matters to AIESEC members and those who were interested in.

Throughout the blog, you could see my vision upon Japanese society and notions of comparison between my original stereotype and the contrast. I pointed out difference and similarity I faced on culture, norms, language, and attitude.

I've got Japanese name from AIESEC help and feel warmer because of inner heart touching family-like care. Finally I decide to stay in my own country, even if I love this fresh-air and blue-sky country. Because I was ingrained the patriot soul someday I can do gratitude to my country.

Well, find me more via the blog as mentioned above,

And call me Furinto, if you see me in Japan.

;)

Ja mata ne.

Business ThinkTank No.37- Money Credit

2012-07-11T21:17:00.002-07:00

Money doesn't only exist in formats of coins and banknotes, but also it's available in virtuality-money credit.

To receive money credits, user may have to invest upon somethings like hard exercise, long-distance running, in turn, get the points. The business should establish a platform to let users spend their credits earned. Auction stages, discounting stores, premium shops are the examples in this regard.

In summary, let users exchange their efforts with virtual money and an enterprise provide places to allow them to spend money credits. Victory. Both!

App- Alarm Clocks

2012-06-24T19:54:00.003-07:00

The iPhone app is very pervasive. There are many sorts of app invented diversely. Alarm clock function seems to have less attractive to developers since provided as built-in app.By the way, if have creativity, distinction still exists.

The airline company released the alarm clock app with gift offering. If users guess correctly the city where voice is belling while alarming for a few minutes, they will get an air ticket to that city for free of charge.

In Japan, the alarm ring will be tailored corresponding to weather.

Even though the functionality is limited like alarm clock, let's attempts to get out limitation with Valuation.

Business ThinkTank No.36- Free Inventory Stocking Shop

2012-06-24T19:38:00.002-07:00

Many business may sometimes cope up with high cost of inventory storing. The unsold products are burden to the company's balance sheet and difficult to manage. Is there a solution to eradicate this cost out from the business? Unfortunately, no.

However, according to this circumstance, if there are someone offering you to help sell your products but in exchange you have to let them take a picture of your products and input to their e-commerce websites. Your products will display on the websites for free and you get the nice images of the products. As such, you have more selling channels and no cost of distribution. Your partners doesn't need to bear inventory cost because of merely pictures. A thing you do is to wait orders from partners. Fasten inventory stream and increase turnover rate. Win-win scenario.

Business ThinkTank No.35- Street Show in the City

2012-06-24T19:26:00.001-07:00

Often I extract the business idea from Springwise.com. One article narrated about the very creative tourism in New York. You can ride on the city tour bus and see the live dancers along the streets you pass. The stage is moved out to outdoor and invite audience to their show without reserving any seats or buy tickets. Just sit and see on the bus. The show will become more fantastic when happens at night time.

Think out the box, show off the hall. Street performance!

Business ThinkTank No.34- To-do-list for My Business

2012-06-24T19:12:00.004-07:00

I run my click and mortar business for a year and a half. The shop sells musical instrument- in particular- guitar. I put forth the lessons studied from both school and real life to this business. I created the business cards that were printed at the back with the fundamental chord guitar.

I designed the board telling about the website URL and social network contact. Besides, launch continuous promotion and discount since it has opened. But not sufficient. I should do

- Acquire the multimedia presentation and place in front of the shop. In such way, I may buy one TV and DVD player, let it play the musical tutorials. Customers enjoy lessons, meanwhile increase possibility to sell goods and business brand.

- Produce freemiums like free download guitar chords which help the website obtain good pagerank scores effectively.

- Establish the bill board set up on the facade of the shop. The message should give the business persona in quick glance along with the web address.

- Product tag and indicator display like hot sale, recommend. Among products, customers have no time to consider all, why not tag the products which are high pop. Reduce time of searching and increase profitability.

- Hire musical teachers and let him/her give easy tutorials to customers.

- Establish platforms for young musician and if possible, build up music streets.

-Free beverage and candies.

Business ThinkTank No.33- Name Card after Meals

2012-06-24T18:50:00.001-07:00

I once went to a nice and sweet Thai restaurant at Sathorn. The menus are quite delicious. Till the end of the meal I learnt many good practice from this restaurant considerably.

The restro shows the actual look of dessert, particularly-cake, to sweet hungers.
In the sum-bill folder, there is a name card put inside. Calling customers come again.
All staff offers good manner and care.

Despite high price, I'm willing to pay for it. Worthily.

Font Archive

2012-06-04T19:37:00.002-07:00

In a designer's life, I have to invent shapes, lines, layouts, styles and themes by combining to colors, shadows, textures, lighting, and all relevant composition. To express the message of the artwork, I can lend the power of aesthetic menus as mentioned above but I have the shortcut to make a job done. Seek a proper font!

Typography or fonts are potential gadgetry arm for designers to construct an artwork storytelling an objective along with emotional felling. Each font owns particular characteristic that indicates habitual look. The designer's job is to discover one or a few of thousand fonts to put into the artwork. I thus choose and collect promising fonts to ensure I will have a great font matching to my artwork perfectly.

Here are my free font websites using:
Thai fonts: http://www.f0nt.com
Free fonts: http://www.fontsquirrel.com
Freefonts: http://www.dafont.com/
Web fonts: www.google.com/webfonts

Make your font collection and try, type, dont' be tired to take trails!

Business ThinkTank No.32- Free goods for good commitments

2012-03-28T20:39:00.002-07:00

http://www.anthonberg.com/ is a source idea of this business Think Tank.

The shop gives chocolates to customers as freemiums, no any money paid!

What customers have to do is to put their promises to Facebook and try to succeed it!

Nice, generous, it really works.

Business ThinkTank No.31- Discounts directly sent to members

2012-03-28T20:24:00.002-07:00

Fresh food, or expirable products are posing large lump of losses to our mankind's limited resources. Biodegradable food/beverage should be consumed at maximum in an ideal model. So means impossible? No, not that so. We can approach that goal by connecting stores and consumers each other and pursue the following business idea.

When foods or any products come close to expiration, stores will distribute information of those products together with discount alluring to customers. Members have got the message via the designated channels like iPhone app, or email and get enticed by super discounting price. They hurry up to the stores and put the nearly-expirational products into their carts. Perfect.
Win-win.

No waste, no loss, just betters and winners.

Business ThinkTank No.30 - Karaoke Loader

2012-03-25T19:52:00.001-07:00

When we live in Karaoke chambers, what we do firstly is to select and create song lists. This step shorten our happy time around 15-30 mins. Suppose we have a platform like web services to form up our music series before entering the room, it would be better?

TED-Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School

2011-12-29T21:40:00.000-08:00

Offer the concept of attractive schooling for teenage, the Studio School, where students learn by doing, working in teams, turning texts into practical matters. And they are FUN.

Business ThinkTank No.29 -LittleMoneyToDonation

2011-12-29T21:29:00.000-08:00

I came across the idea of brilliant donation. The MetroChange proposes the simple and effective method of supporting charity funds by little amount of money left in the card.

We frequently own cards containable monetary credits like Metro cards, ATM cards, and the like. On one day, we would most probably like to abandon these cards while few balance still remaining by doing nothing.

Better, if we have a machine which you can wipe out all the money credits from the cards, then transfer the benefits to the charitable organizations and finally throw your cards away in the proper bins, it must be a smart possibility. It has so far existed. Wait to spread the idea to wider continents.

I adopt. Please come in.