Dibsy
Dibsy is a product design concept which aims to tackle the problem of helping families and friends in distributed locations coordinate and buy meaningful gifts for each other in a secure and satisfying way.
The Challenge
The growing number of distributed families and friends has put distance between people more than ever. This distance makes knowing what someone wants for that special occasion increasingly challenging and creates a myriad of problems ranging from the awkward “what do you want for [insert occasion]?” conversations to the surprisingly common double purchase scenario.
Dibsy is a product that aims to solve this challenge by bringing the best of gift giving into one easy-to-use place. Most gift registries focus on a specific event and typically cater to that registries promoted inventory of products. This insight helped to identify an opportunity to help “receivers” curate a list of gifts they actually want while helping “gift-givers” to coordinate gifts within groups (for a diverse set of event types).
Better Gifts
Dibsy is designed to strategically improve gift-giving through the following feature sets:
- Multiple state monitoring (Claiming/Reserving & Purchased)
- ACL-based commenting infrastructure for “spoil-free” communication
- Notifications (price, purchase updates, new gifts added…etc.)
- Locked/Queue list options
- Gift preferences/vitals to reduce returns
- Sorting (by price, user…etc.)
