The Best Shampoo Bottle Ever! At #OYO

Have you heard of OYO ? It is a start up from Haryana, India. They were valued at USD$5billion in September 2018 and raised USD$1billion in the same year. OYO is a website that runs booking for budget lodging. Check Wikipedia about OYO here.

I thought Air BNB has nailed it but with OYO, I learned there’s always opportunities to those who keep looking for problems to solve. Good job to OYO teams globally. I had my first OYO recently in Penang, Malaysia.

I concluded that OYO has the best shampoo bootle I have ever seen in hotels! See below, aren’t they practical? The screwcap top is flat so it can stand firmly. Wide based. What makes it special?

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I used to work in hotels around 25 years ago. I’ve seen hundreds if not thousands of shampoo bottles in hotels. They look nice sitting pretty, but after you use the shampoo you find it hard to stand the bottle on the strainer / soap holder near the shower or WC top. Worse you can’t lie the bottle down because it will drip. With your soapy hands, it is challenging to put them to sit straight, the bottles somehow “prefer” to lie down. When it lies, the dripping makes me feel guilty – such a wasted shampoo. 

With OYO, the bottle design is good. It has flat design with 45 degree (about that) sides slant until the bottle tip. The cap is flat too, thus to stand it will be quite stable. However, again during shower and to put them on the holder, the best position for the bottle is the lying down. See picture below.

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This time with OYO shampoo bottle, no dripping!! I was surprised and quickly took note of the bottle. Not a drop goes to waste while showering. There was only one problem, see my drawing below. 

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OYO’s shampoo bottle is straight cut. Just like straight cut jeans, it tends to slip easily. When holding the bottle it slips to the ground very fast because it is a straight cut. Having learned design thinking & user experience, I attempted to redesign the experience of OYO shampoo bottle without the hassle of any technical drawings or codings for that matter. 😉

The shampoo bottle will do a great service in users experience with some curves on the side of the bottles. Check above. With these curves (or just curve on one of the bottle), the shampoo bottle will hold tighter and prevent it from slipping. Just like your bathing soap block, it has that curves on both sides? To grip better!

Other than that, OYO’s shampoo bottle is the best in the world!

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