2nd meeting - questions for Kohei

[Nicholas Wang]

So we had our 2nd meeting last night.  A new industrial designer joined us and like every other industrial design I've met, was very interested in CUUSOO.com and its ideas.

Kohei, we had one big question about delivery - how do manufacturers ship products to customers in Japan?  Do they ship directly to each house?  (Obviously this will be a concern for manufacturers here in HK and in China.)

Second - Peggy wants to draw user stories like the girl who created "plastic covers study guide" so she could sell the books after she used them...  Can you give us some more stories in detail?  (One problem with CUUSOO is that it takes time to explain to people what exactly CUUSOO does and how it does it.  Peggy thinks that drawing past success stories will be the best and easiest way to explain CUUSOO to others.)

Charlotte showed us a website - www.jacksonlaw.com.hk
This guy designs, make and sell Chinese style furnitures to Japan.  He says that the Japanese really loves oriental style things... which they can't get in Japan I suppose.  But he's getting so busy making furnitures he has no time to design! (right Charlotte?)  So we were thinking he could use CUUSOO to help him connect with manufacturers.

From the above example, Charlotte thought of those Chinese style lamps - a flat piece of metal with cut out shapes, users can bend and apply to lamps themselves.  They're pretty simple and highly customizable.  We think it will be a good product to put up on CUUSOO.com next.

Finally... Peggy's idea of a seat cover for the Japanese shower.  The stools they use in the shower room is hard and not comfortable.  She thinks a waterproof jelly pad will provide comfort and safety for your buttocks.  I agree!  Who wouldn't want comfort for their buttocks!  Especially for the elderly and skinny people who don't have that natural cushioning down there...  OK... I better stop  :P

Cheers,
-Nick

[Pai Pai]

:p Some additional comments on the bathroom stool cover~~

Actually my original idea was to make a whole half-solid jelly pad stool (and coz it's a jelly pad, you can warm it up a little bit before you sit on it, best when the weather is cold and you don't have to endure that "sudden freeze" when you sit on it!) 

The jelly pad stool is not completely out of shape, it has a certain buttock shape that makes you fit your buttocks well like many chairs we now have. Also, it comes with different designs, so that it suits the tastes of different people!  For example, for the girls, we can have cute designs like cute frogs/ ducklings/ bunnies; for men, we can have cool patterns with cool colors (black and white, gray, checkers...), for basic needs and designers and alike who prefer less and simple, we can have a series of designer colors (like from pantone)! Of course we also have some down-to-earth color for more traditional ppl and the elderly!

Also we can make different sizes just for fun, like a mother duck stool for adults with some duckling stools for the children; or a couple set, or a one size fits all!

Perhaps I should draw the design of the stools if you guys think it's "doable"! lol But the stool cover idea is also great, so perhaps we can do both lol

Peggy

[charlotte chan]

^_^ The jelly pad stool & cover ideas are really great! Let's see what we can come up with our ideas and meet again before Nick leaves for Japan.

Charlotte

2009/6/29 Pai Pai <love...@gmail.com>

[Pai Pai]

Thanks Charlotte for your support :D

FYI if you want to warm the jelly pad a little bit, I guess you can just pour warm water on it (or put it in warm water for a while). Plus the stool will have an anti slip coating at the bottom to prevent the stool from slipping around! :p Especially great for older people and kids.

Like I said before, it's easy to clean for lazy people (unlike normal stools that have different corners to scrub) because the stool is like a round bean seat! So there's no corners or difficult to reach areas when you clean it up!

Back to the comics, any news from Kohei?

Peggy

2009/7/1 charlotte chan <charl...@gmail.com>