Hmm hmm hmm.

Are we we're not allowed to dim the lights so people can see that a bit better?

Yeah.

Okay, that's fine. Am I supposed to be standing up there? Okay.

So we've got both of these clipped on? She gonna answer me or not?

Yeah, I've got.

Right, both of them, okay.

Yes.

God.

Jesus, it's gonna fall off.

Okay. Yep, yep. Okay. Tu tu tu tu

Okay. Hello everybody.

Hi, good morning.

Um I'm Sarah, the Project Manager and this is our first meeting, surprisingly enough. Okay, this is our agenda, um we will do some stuff, get to know each other a bit better to feel more comfortable with each other. Um then we'll go do tool training, talk about the project plan, discuss our own ideas and everything um and we've got twenty five minutes to do that, as far as I can understand. Now, we're developing a remote control which you probably already know. Um, we want it to be original, something that's uh people haven't thought of, that's not out in the shops, um, trendy, appealing to a wide market, but you know, not a hunk of metal, and user-friendly, grannies to kids, maybe even pooches should be able to use it. Okay, um, first is the functional design, um this is where we all go off and do our individual work, um what needs need to be fulfilled by the product, um what effects the product has to have and how it's actually going to do that. Um, conceptual design, what we're thinking, how it's gonna go and then the detailed design, how we're actually gonna put it into practice and make it work.

'Kay.

Okay, right. We're gonna practice with the pens and draw our favourite animal on the white board, I'll go first, and um sum up the characteristics of that animal.

So.

Oops.

Okay, I'll leave space for everyone else. Um What's missing? We're running out of blue. Okay. I'm not gonna ask you to guess, I'm going to tell you that's supposed to be a tiger.

Mm.

And I see them as majestic, and independent, and proud.

Oh sorry. Mm-hmm.

Now, who would like to go next?

Yeah, me.

'Kay.

Cat. Where did this come from?

Is that your lapel then?

Uh, yep.

There you go.

Thank you. Uh, maybe you can guess what I'm trying to make?

A kind of dog?

Yep. It's actually sitting, so.

It's sitting down.

Sorry?

it's sitting, it's not standing.

Uh.

Okay, I see it as one thing it's very supportive. It's your best friend and your you can talk to a dog, it can be your best friend, it doesn't discriminate between you, based on what you are. Second it's loyal and third thing it's got intuition. dogs can som sometimes can make out between a thief and a person

Mm-hmm.

so basically these are the three unique features I think belong to a dog.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah I'll have a go.

Okay. Sorry.

Thanks.

Please, please leave me a space at the bottom, I'm little,

Alright, okay.

you can get to the top, with standing on a chair.

Well since you guys have chosen the ones I wanted to do, I'll have to have to go for something a bit random.

Does it look like a dog actually?

Okay.

And also, my drawing skill isn't that great so, yeah.

Well, as you can see, the quality of the work today is um.

Mm.

I think it's outstandingly good..

Okay, now I'm gonna have to change what is was originally gonna be

because that looks like a beak now, so. Yeah, it can be a crocodile, it can be a crocodile.

Crocodile?

Gonna be a bird. Is it gonna be.

Well it was it was an at first.

it's gonna be a bird.

firstly it was an attempt at a T_ Rex and then it sort of changed into a pelican

O

but it can be a crocodile now actually.

That's lovely.

Yeah and uh I'll have to think on the spot of uh things that it is. Um

Beauti that's.

uh scary, uh strong, yeah that's about it I think.

Okay it's fine.

Okay. Um, I'm very impressed with your artistic skills,

Uh uh.

mine's are dreadful. Oops this is now coming apart, let me just put the top in.

Wo.

I hope that clicks in, I'll just I'll hold it on, okay.

Oops, oh dear, what happened there?

Technical help.

Hmm.

Hopefully that'll stay on, two-handed version.

Okay.

Okay, uh Again this is off the top of my head, I was gonna do a big cat too, um.

Uh.

Hmm.

Oh dear, it doesn't look what like what I want it to be.

S Uh.

Uh.

It's not a vampire bat honestly.

Okay, yeah.

Uh and somewhere there's a body behind.

Okay, some sort of bird.

That's my dreadful that's the worst yet, that's it's meant to be an eagle.

A seagu

Eagle, okay.

right,

Ah eagle, right okay.

not a seagull.

you can tell it's a flying animal could have been a seagull, I never thought of a seagull. An eagle, um again I'm thinking on my feet goodness. I suppose they're all so independent, I'd put that one down again. Da dum um.

They're good at golf.

Indepen independent, right, did you say they're good at golf?

Eagle.

Yeah, no yeah,

Are they?

an eagle.

Oh. Oh right, okay,

I'm not good at golf.

I'd say they're quite free-spirited, flying around everywhere, doing their own thing. And uh, birds of prey aren't they,

Mm-hmm.

oh dear, intrepid. I'll put that, intrepid.

There we go,

That's lovely.

hope that pen's gonna be okay.

Whoops.

Okay. That was fun, right. Um finance-wise, we've got a selling price at twenty five Euros, which I don't actually know what that is in Pounds, at all. Any ideas?

It's about.

One point four or something like that.

mm, mm yeah.

Seventeen.

One point four Euro would make a Pound or something like that.

Yeah, yeah, something like that,

Yeah.

so that.

D fifteen?

yeah about seventeen, seventeen Pounds, something like that.

Seventeen.

Seventeen Pounds.

Okay, that's expensive.

Should we be making notes of this? We can just refer to this later can't we?

I think so, I think so,

But.

I'll be able to um pull it up,

Yeah, okay.

or I could put it in the shared folder or something.

Havi having said that though, if you wanna get one of those the the ones on the market at the moment they're s they're about twenty pounds anyway.

Okay.

So, it'd still be.

Really?

Right.

yeah, we had to buy one.

So

Mm. I think.

so I suppose later it depends if we want to undercut the price, we d or or is it going to make our product look a cheapie-cheapie option?

Yeah, um production cost's at twelve fifty, so

Hmm.

Okay, pretty huge margin.

half of the selling price is taken up by building it.

Yeah.

Mm.

Um, and profit aim is fifty million Euros,

Mm-hmm.

which is uh.

In our first year?

Yi yes, um yeah, I presume so. Um.

Mm-hmm.

So then.

You've got market range international and you did say earlier it's got to be a um accessible and usable by sort of all age groups

Mm-hmm.

just t we're not focusing on business market, any particular thing, it's everyone

No, yeah.

user-friendly to everyone. Okay.

So.

Big target group.

yes, yes, I don't think we have to I don't think it's a case of worrying about different languages and things like that, um making that a key point,

No.

just that it's going to be in the international market like Australia, America, things like that.

Mm.

Okay. What are your experiences with remote controls? I mean I've got we got um we had three videos, a T_V_ and a sort of amp thing all set up

Mm-hmm.

so we got one of the universal remote controls, um that you programme each of your things into,

Yeah.

Yeah,

Yeah.

Alright.

that c

but that kept losing the signals so we'd have to re-programme it every now and again. I think it was quite a cheapie as well, so that might have had something to do with it,

Yeah uh.

Mm-hmm.

but that was quite good, the fact that you could You didn't have six remote controls sitting in front of you.

Use all the ones at the same time.

Right.

Okay, you wanna integrate everything into one like.

Yeah,

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

'cause you.

My experience has only been being given the remote control with the object I buy, not doing any tampering with it and programming, using it to programme T_V_ and uh uh videos and things. But basically on, off, volume up and down, channel one, two, th that basic functions,

Mm.

I don't think I could go any further with it than that, so, I suppose it's got to be something usable by someone like me as well.

Yeah, the main that's the main stuff anyway, I mean

Mm-hmm.

and you don't want to I hate I hate looking at a control and seeing a million tiny little buttons with tiny little words saying what they all do

Mm.

and just sitting there searching for the teletext button or something like that.

Yeah.

Mm. And symbols that you don't necessarily understand,

Yeah.

symbols you're meant to understand that you don't.

So simplification of symbols you could think of.

Um. When they're when you've got the main things on the front of it and a section opens up or something to the other functions where you can do sound or options kind of recording, things like that inside it.

Oh yeah. Mm-hmm.

'Cause it doesn't make when you pick it up it doesn't make it really complicated to look at,

Mm.

it's obvious what you're doing, um.

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Actually that just raises a point, I wonder what our design people think, but you know on a mobile phone, you can press a key and it gives you a menu, it's got a menu display,

Mm-hmm. Menu, alright.

I wonder if incorporating that into the design of a remote control might be useful,

Yeah.

Uh uh.

so you've got a little L_C_D_ display.

Right, I was thinking on the same lines you, instead of having too many b buttons and make it complicated for the user, may h maybe have an L_C_D_ di display or something like that, like a mobile, yeah and with menus.

With menus, yeah, yeah.

And if it's s somewhat similar to what you have on mobile phone, people might find it easier to browse and navigate also maybe.

Yeah.

What about the older generation? What about granny and grandads?

You mean to save it lesser number.

Um, my grandad can answer his mobile phone, but he couldn't even dream of texting or something like that.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Can he programme his remote control or is it basic with that too?

Right.

I don't think they tape things,

Yeah, my grandad's actually better than me at using teletext, so.

I don't think they use.

Right. Right. So that's a problem regardless of of any design modifications you you come up with,

Yeah.

that's gonna be a problem anyway with the older generation perhaps,

Mm, yeah, the age gap.

Yeah, what it just needs to be as long as it's sort of self-intuitive and you can can work out what everything's doing,'cause I mean, menus on sort of new phones now they've sort of got all these pictures and stuff which makes it fairly obvious what you're trying to do.

Mm.

Mm-hmm.

I don't know, I d

But I don't know how.

I don't like the, you know the new phones that have kind of got a Windows-based running system.

Oh yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I find it really confusing, I kept getting lost in the phone, I di I've not got a new one but uh my friend got a new one

Right.

and I was trying to do things with it and I just kept getting lost, but that's just me.

Yeah, I don't I don't know how for twenty fi, or twelve Euros fifty how much of a excellent screen you could get,

Yeah.

you'd you'd have to sort of keep it down to a black and white L_C_D_ thing anyway, I'd assume.

Mm-hmm. Is it possible that that for the older generation you could have like an extra button that you press for large print like you do in large print books?

Okay.

Teletext has got that option as well.

Obviously it displays less on the screen, it displays less on the screen but as long as they can read it that's the main thing.

Yeah. Or what about kind of a dual function? In that you've got the basic buttons just for your play, volume, programme things

Mm-hmm.

and also and then a menu to go into with obvious pictures, obvious symbols and that's where you control recording and things like that.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm. The other thing is, just ch chucking into mobile phone f design features again, it could have a flip top remote control so that when you flip over the top, your screen is you can have a bigger screen in the the flip over.

Mm-hmm.

Mm, okay. S

I think that's a cost thing, I don't I don't know how much we're gonna know about.

Y

It might

Yeah?

it might save a b bit of space, it's i instead of looking bulky, it might look small.

Mm-hmm.

Yes, no that's important.

But it might have its cost implications.

Yeah.

Yeah, like smaller.

Okay.

And there's no reason we need to make it look as fashionable and stylish as a mobile phone, it can still be lightweight plastic, you know?

Mm.

Right.

Something that's easily moulded and produced.

Yeah.

Sorry I'm treading on your territory guys..

Um, right, okay

No uh uh.

we've got half an hour before the next meeting, so we're all gonna go off and do our individual things. Um I think that's probably about it and then we'll come back and liaise again and I get to do another fantastic PowerPoint presentation.

Yeah. Just just a quick thing about the um.

Sure.

about what you're saying about the uh does does it need to be fashionable? The sort of I I had a quick look at the company website and it's like the the uh we put the fashion into electronics, so I think think the whole design thing might be qui

Ah right.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

I mean you don't you you can still have plastic

Sure b y yeah.

and it'd look quite good but.

But yeah, I mean it doesn't have to be that, you know th that was my main point,

Yeah.

we don't have to use metal, I don't know if using plastic does make it cheaper,

Mm.

I presume it would.

I would.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

it would probably. I mean there's Sky remote controls and everything. They're kind of moulded and look a bit different, and the Telewest remote controls are silver plastic, which looks a bit smarter,

Right.

so yeah I guess that's stuff we can think about.

Okay.

Okay, so let's break it up there. Okay?

Okay.

'Kay.

So, see you in half an hour.

Do we go back to our room? Yep?

Mm, yeah.

I think so, yeah.

Question: Can you summarize the main points of the discussion on remote control design?

Response:
Here are the main points of the discussion on remote control design:

* The remote control should be user-friendly and accessible to a wide range of users, including older adults and children.
* The remote should have a simple and intuitive design, with clear and easily recognizable buttons.
* The remote could have a combination of physical buttons and an LCD display with menus for additional functions.
* The remote could have a flip-top design to save space and provide a larger screen for the LCD display.

Question: Besides the design, were there any other aspects of the remote control that were discussed?

Response:
Yes, other aspects of the remote control were discussed, including:

* The importance of making the remote control affordable to produce, with a production cost of around twelve pounds fifty.
* The target market for the remote control is international, with a profit aim of fifty million Euros in the first year.
* The remote control should be able to integrate multiple devices, such as TVs, amplifiers, and DVD players, into one device.

Question: Were there any questions raised during the meeting that were left unresolved or unanswered?

Response:
Yes, there was one question raised during the meeting that was left unresolved and unanswered:

* The participants discussed the possibility of incorporating a larger LCD display with menus into the remote control's design. However, they were unsure whether it would be possible to fit a large and high-quality screen into the remote control while keeping the production costs low.

Question: What did the Industrial Designer recommend doing regarding the size of the LCD display?

Response: The Industrial Designer did not recommend anything regarding the size of the LCD display.

Question: What were the tasks or next steps agreed upon by the participants at the end of the meeting?

Response: The meeting transcript does not contain the answer to this question.

Question: To conclude the discussion, did the participants agree on how to proceed with the project or any specific next steps?

Response: The meeting does not have the answer of this question.

Question: Did the participants agree on a specific type of material to use for the remote control's casing?

Response: The participants did not agree on a specific type of material to use for the remote control's casing. They discussed using plastic, but they did not make a final decision.

Question: What was decided about the main functions of the remote control?

Response: The participants agreed that the main functions of the remote control would include basic controls such as play, volume, and channel selection. They also discussed the possibility of including additional functions such as menu navigation, recording, and sound control.

Question: Can you summarize the key points made by the marketing representative during the meeting?

Response:
* The marketing representative emphasized that the remote control should be user-friendly and accessible to a wide range of users, including older adults and children.
* They suggested incorporating a menu-based system with clear and easily recognizable symbols to simplify navigation.
* The marketing representative also raised concerns about the impact of a larger LCD display on the remote control's affordability.

Question: Besides the discussion on the remote control's design and functionality, were there any other topics or concerns raised during the meeting?

Response:
Yes, the participants discussed the following topics and concerns:

* The importance of keeping the production cost of the remote control affordable, with a target of around twelve pounds fifty.
* The need to ensure that the remote control is accessible to users of all ages, including older adults and children.
* The possibility of incorporating a larger LCD display with menus into the remote control's design, but they were unsure about its feasibility and cost implications.


So, I will open our functional design meeting.

Mm-hmm.

So, I will play role of the secretary. As also Program Ma Manager. So, we will have the three presentations from the In Industrial Designer, User Interface Designer and um

Industrial Design.

Marketing Expert.

What's your talk?

Okay.

Marketing Experts..

Mm.

And after that we uh will have the uh new product requirements, the decision on the remote control functions, and we will close the meetings after. Mm so um I suppose the first to do the presentation will be the User Interface Designer.

Okay.

Um, so you're participant two?

One one.

No no no.

No you're.

One.

No,

Three three, it's three

I'm participant one..

sorry.

I I think I'm a.

Okay, never mind.

Okay.

'Kay, did you save your presentation?.

In one.

In one, sorry.

Yeah.

Isn't that technical functions?

No sure.

So you didn't save it maybe.

Uh

It's mine.

it's David Jordan. Course.

Alright, so.

Name's Jordan. So

David Jordan? Mm-hmm.

Mm yeah.

Mm-hmm.

so I'll I let David Jordan do his presentation.

Okay.

No, no. Uh this one doesn't want to be moved, I think.

Uh.

Too great for email then.

Okay, so. The first I will present the technical function design for user interface for our uh remote T_V_ control.

Yeah.

Uh I I will focus on user interface design.

Mm.

Um so move to the next slide. As we know our remote c rem remote T_V_ control it's very has very soph sophisticated functions, as we show from this picture. There's a lot of functions. Over, I think over s twelve or twenty s functions of a remote T_V_ control. So how can we um design a user interface with so sa with so many sophisticated functions? Um, let's move to next slide. Um. Yeah. So I so we want to design uh elegant, easy to use inter interface. A very good example is Google. As we know uh Google it's a very successful because his um powerful function, but with very easy to use user interface. Um so move to next s slide.

So my job is to uh design a Google T_V_ controller which I want to have sophisticated functions while with very easy to use user interface. So.

That's the end of the talk the end of the presentation.

So you propose to to have the remote control which will be powerful.

Uh With sophisticated functions,

So powerful,

but with very yeah powerful.

many functions and very easy to use.

Yes. Yep.

So, I dunno, it's maybe difficult to have both,

To merge the two system huh.

I mean the the one on the right doesn't look so simple

Yeah.

Yeah.

You mean this one?

Yeah.

Yeah you have to learn the manual before using this remote control, I suppose.

Mm yep.

But But this is.

But if we have very very good user interface

Yeah,

Yeah.

and then.

it take less time for user to learn how to use it.

Yeah.

Yeah you maybe you have some international standards, where you know, if you can use one is the other are or almost the same, so the sign.

Oh you mean for the yeah pic pictograms or things like that?

Yeah, yeah. For example, I dunno here, escape, you know, you have escape in computers you have, so if you see escape, you know that it should be the same.

Oh it should okay, yeah. The user should know.

So you have to The sh the user there for example the power off button it is something very international, you know that So.

Yeah um such as maybe the.

Yeah. So.

Go on, go back and.

Yeah, but the question is how to merge you know the Google system to the system, alright.

Yeah, that's gonna be the trick..

Yeah, that's my job..

That's your job.

That's my job. It's not the easiest I've got to.

It you.

So, you will propose us something which is yeah so powerful and easy to use.

Yep.

Okay.

Okay.

Powerful and easy to use.

So that's the point.

Yeah, that's the point.

So, next I propose the Industrial User Interface to present things.

Okay, okay.

So you you're.

Participant two. Yeah.

Um. Okay.

The rationale must be design, or.

So, Baba is the uh the Industrial Designer. Okay.

So we can move to the next slide. As you all know, you know m my job is to design you know uh to give an industrial design of the remote control. So the re basically the remote control will be, you know, infrared control, so the problem is how to relate the

Mm-hmm.

how to relate the remote control device, like for example this one I h I'm holding in my hand and the T_V_. So, this one is leather bu based

Mm.

but I propose a nifra infrared base you know, so so for me I think that it is better it's bet it's better to control T_V_

so you know, so it's it will be cheaper and it is less technology than, you know For the cheap price we have, for the cheap price we want to.

True.

So you mean that infrared control is a cheap technology?

I think it's cheaper than laser, so.

Okay.

Yeah. Do y you know the requirements for the remote control? Twelve, nearly thirteen,

What the cost is?

yeah. The cost.

Twelve, twelve a half.

Yeah, I think for the cost we want for the cost we want it's better to have uh uh Let's see. Yeah. You can move to the next slide, so. So the di the differen the findings you know what you find inside the re i the the system here inside it is just, you know a bulb and an infrared bulb, so here for example the infrared bulb will be here

Mm-hmm.

and the bulb it will be somewhere inside.

That might just So.

You can go to the next slide.

Okay.

I have some kind of pictures you know, here. You have the b the bulb, it is a blue the blue stuff here and the infrared and the infrared bulb it is the red stuff

Yeah.

you know and so and you have the other subcomponent that are not really here so important, so.

What is this?

This is in fact some other component that are in between the electrical de the electronic device.

Okay.

Look. But here what I wanted to emphasise it is just you know the bulb and.

Okay.

So and the next slide, it is the last one it's So it's I think it should be wire wireless re remote con Because you know, it's easier to manage and you know because you f the b the the battery problem can hold you know will you use a battery or the a wire to connected you. Or maybe some kind of thing that we can have both, but you know, I at my side prefer a wireless.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, so if you have some question I didn't answer?

What's the average price of this technology then?

Well the avera the average prices I think that this technology will cost, I dunno, around eight Euros, so. Or at least you know, the

So what, the wireless remote control? There's a wire with remote control?.

You'd yes, you can. It's so so bres you have to decide how how you will you know, put some energy inside, so you can think about wireless or you know it's it's a question that we can raise, so. We can think that you know, with the wire, you know, without a wire. We can have both also.

Okay.

So you think that uh a cable between the remote control and the T_V_ won't be a good idea.

Okay. Okay.

No it wou maybe it will be cheaper I dunno, I just may maybe you making a solu

But this is what you would like to ask the user first and I don't think the user would be ready to have a.

Yeah,

Wireless remote control.

but.

I don't think well, yeah, I don't think he would,

Yeah, but some pa I always want to have you know,

but in a sense.

sometime I want to have wire because you know.

Yeah but as Industrial Designer, do you think that it will be feasible to have uh linked or to have link between the remote control and the television?

I'm just asking you. Do you think it will be cheaper?

Uh, I don't think it will be too much.

Could you answer please?.

Okay.

Have to think about the question, you know,'cause it's I think that you know you can always you know.

Okay.

I think wha wha with the wire it's mm cheaper but you know the wireless it's more practical, so.

Yeah, but I think the wireless problem is more the um David Jordan's problem.

Mm-hmm.

The wire?

As it's yeah.

Yeah. True.

Okay, yeah.

I think it's more your problem. Mayb maybe you have just to to kind of research or try to ask people if they will like something wireless or not.

Mm-hmm.

Uh that's my job. That's the.

Okay, I'm sorry.

Now the.

So.

Yeah but, it should be an agreement, you know, because even if you can think of the wireless, it is it's it is the job of the the the g Graphical User Designer, but you know. If it is a lot cheaper and if you want to reach for example some the the money you have, if you want to use, so it can be good to have a wireless, it it is a question.

So

Okay.

just think of um the usability.

Design a wireless remote control..

Yeah. Just think of the problem. If when you have wireless remote control and if you lose it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think it's would be easier to have a link between the remote control and the television,

Well that's actually one of the point, yeah? True.

yeah.

This you will see in my presentation then.

So I will let you to do your presentation, so.

Yeah.

Okay.

Which is participant four. So just trying to answer all the questions, if the user would be happy to have something or something else uh. We've made a study, so could you go to next slide.

Sorry for the functional recurrence. So that's the standard method for marketing, okay. We had one hundred subjects, um, we observe their remote control use in a lab and then after all the experiments they had to fill up a questionnaire, um, and see what was okay or not for them.

Mm-hmm.

Okay. So then it's some statistics about what we observed and what they answered. Um actually seventy five percent of the users find m the most remote controls uh ugly, okay, so that's.

You mean the loo the look, the outside?

The look, how it look like.

Yeah, the the look is is bad for them

Okay.

so uh it's your job, David, maybe. Then eighty percent of users would spend more money um actually if if the remote controls were not so ugly. So this is where we could have uh yeah, good market, I guess, if people are ready to pay more.

Yeah.

So it's it's interesting information, I think. And then um yeah, the remote controls like the one you've shown previously it's not so doesn't fit the user requirements sometime, because it's too many buttons and so on. So we should change this as well. And uh users are actually zapping a lot, so they're using the device intensively, that's something to take into account as well. And um, you know, ten percent of the buttons are actually used in the remote control. And uh this is one of the main point for me. But I'll come back to it later.'Kay. Could you go next slide? Uh, so as you said uh,

Mm-hmm.

remote controls are often lost somewhere in the room.

So this is from the experiments we've done,

so if we could solve this problem this would be interesting for the user, I think. Um it takes too much time to learn how to use the remote control for thirty five percent of the people. And uh remote control are really bad for R_S_I_ problems for twenty six percent of the users.

What is R_S_I_?

R_S_I_ is like, when you're using the same um doing the same movement several times, then you get injured.

Yeah.

Ah um okay..

Okay? So, those numbers are less important then the previous one, but still it has to be taken to count. So last slide. Um so my pres personal preferences for this problem is we have to meet the user needs. If we can make it look fancy then we might sell more than our uh concurrent, okay.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

And definitely if it could have less buttons, still maybe the same number of um functions, but less buttons,

Functions.

this would definitely be a good way of selling more. Okay.

Okay.

So.

Mm okay. And just to have uh an idea, do you think you as the User Interface Designer to would it be possible to have less buttons and still have the same functionality and to have powerful remote control, you think it's possible?

Yeah.

Sure? Yeah?

Yeah, I think possible. Because we can We can uh mix uh several function in one button.

Yeah.

So lets you then you have less buttons.

Yeah, but do you think it will be easy to use?

But I'm not sure.

Because if you have many functions just for one button it would be quite difficult for the user to know.

Yeah, remember the user is not happy to read the

The manuals.

Yeah,

manual.

I think the.

It's.

No you you can have a switch menu, so you can

Yeah, but it has to be intuitive.

well for example Yeah, I think so. Like for for example you can uh you can category the function i i into several classes. Then for um you can have a switch menu, so you put the switch menu to it it tend to this kind of this category of functions.

Yeah, okay. Okay,

Then you you put the switch button,

but.

then it switch to another category of functions. Yeah. For example, if you have remote control you you can rem you can control your T_V_ and also you can control your uh recorder.

With a.

So there's a different functions, but i if you you there's a button you can switch between control T_V_ and control your recorder. So we can has less buttons.

Yeah, but.

But what I'm not so sure is about how to make the remote control look funny look fancy, not funny.

Look fancy.

This is a question that should be asked to the If you ask the people, maybe the the marketing people.

Because different people have a different opinion about fancy. You know.

Yeah.

Yeah, this is something we sh

Because maybe a colourful is fancy for some people, but maybe simple and uh uniform colourful is fancy for some for other peoples, so.

Mm-hmm.

But this was first step and This was the first step, yeah.

I think the solution is to have many colours of you know instead of having one grey standard.

Yeah, but I think it will increase the price of the production of the remote control.

Specially distribution, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe.

If you need to have special colours for remote controls it will cost more.

Uh.

Yeah, personalised colour. Because you know.

Yeah, it will cost little bit more.

Yeah, because maybe some people prefer a red remote control,

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

some people prefer black remote control.

Yeah, but this is what we would ask to the users, so.

And also f

Maybe we can have di di we can have uh several options,

Yeah.

so user can select which colour they prefer, so.

Yeah, but as soon as you speak about options, it means that the price increases,

Yeah,

Mm-hmm.

remember it's twelve Euros.

and we don't really want the price to be too too high, because we wanna be able to produce it. So, we want something fancy, as uh previously said, Florent, something very easy to use, powerful and also as uh it's written here, seventy five percent of users, they zap lot, so maybe just having many functions in one button is not that good if you want to zap a lot.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

And they don't really want to zap between functions of their remote control, they want to zap between channels on T_V_.

Mm-hmm.

So I think you have quite lot of points to to think about

Yeah.

and to discuss it with uh the other members.

Yeah, hmm.

Yeah.

So, is it okay for your presentation? Nothing else to to add?

Yeah, it's done, just yeah. If we would if we could remember like, not too many buttons and make it look fancy, I think it would make it.

Mm-hmm. Okay. Mm so.

So.

So, I had some new information about the product requirements, so you will have to take care of it of it in your thinking, in your designing of the remote control. So the first one is that um for the designing of the remote control we don't really want to use the teletext anymore, as it's something that's.

Mm-hmm.

It's is uh.

Lame, or.

No yeah, because now everybody has internet at home, so it's better to use internet then teletext.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

So, you will have to think about it in your in in the design of your remote control,

Yep.

and also the remote control will only be used for television, so for y for you your designing, you're not you won't be uh you won't had um buttons to just to manipulate yeah to control the recorder or maybe the garage door or things like that.

Control. Mm-hmm..

It's.

Mm-hmm

because if we want to to do remote control

Mm.

which will be used for for the television, for the recorder, for the camcorder and all the others, it will become too complex and it will increase the pli the price and we can't do that. We really want to focus on the remote control for the television. Is it okay?

Okay. But there's balance between function and the cost.

So maybe it will be easier for you to to design it, to have very powerful and easy.

Yeah. Okay.

And also we want the image of the uh um real reaction be recognisable in the product, such as the colour and s the slogan.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

I mean that's uh if uh you want to buy a remote control and if you go in a shop and if you see the remote control you will recognise directly that s it's our product.

Mm-hm.

Mm-hmm.

So you will have to use the colour of the product, of the um um

Okay.

of the uh of real reaction

Okay.

So.

and uh also.

So has to be yellow.

Yellow.

Yeah. As we say, we put the fashion in electronics, so it has to be a fashion remote control. Fancy, fashion, powerful, easy to use.

Okay. Mm-hmm.

Require lot of requirements,

For cheap remote control, yeah.

but.

Yeah. And cheap.

Yeah.

A low cost.

Yeah. But uh that's your your job to find something mm matches.

Yeah. Yeah,'cause what I'm thinking is how will you will connect the T_V_ to internet, so.

This is.

I don't think it's part of the remote control design anyway.

Maybe not,

It's maybe more in browsing.

but mayb

Yeah, but this this mean that your T_V_ would be able to, you know, connect to internet, you know, surf the web.

Yeah, there's that box in uh o of it.

Yeah.

A pi There's that box in the T_V_, so with the set box you you can connect internet with your T_V_.

Okay.

Ok

Hm-mm.

It's It's not so uh popular now..

It's pop I don't think it's popular, so that's the problem so. You had i if you are designing a remote control for you know

Mm.

the global usage,

Global,

so if people don't have the technology.

okay.

So.

Mm-hmm.

So everybody is okay with the new requirements?

So I I so As as for the colour, what what do you think?

I think it has to be yellow.

Yellow? Do you think that people like the colour yellow?.

Yeah.

Yellow? T_V_ remote control?.

Min

Maybe you can change the colour, but the image of the society has to be recognised.

Okay. Okay.

Yeah.

I think if you have you know th like a yellow ribbon here is the double R_. Or should be.

Why you go It has to be fashion.

Yeah, so. Doesn't need to be completely yellow,

So you have to.

Okay.

but just mm.

Yeah. It has to be a fashion and really be uh the image of the society. Just when you enter you say oh, oh, it's real reaction. Think it's a re reaction remote control, so.

Okay, okay. Okay.

And also it has to be attractive, of course,

Mm.

because if you want to sale to sell the remote control. It's okay?

Regarding the first line, what So we're just expecting no more use of the teletext.

Yeah.

And that's it.

Yeah.

But I dunno, but why, nobody's a threat to me.

It's already changed for.

I think it would be simpler.

Mm-hmm.

Okay. So I will close the meeting, um just after that we'll have lunch break. And you will have in thirty minutes individual work. Uh Y you You will have as the I_D_ I don't remember what is industr Industrial Designer to put um pon

Industrial Designer.

Industrial Designer, yeah. Component component, yeah.

yeah, and the User Interface Designer to work on the user interface concept.

Okay.

And Florent to work my subject.

Yep.

And so specific instructions will be sent to you by your personal coach.

Okay.

It's okay?

Yeah.

I think the um session is closed.

Good.

And by the way, Mister David Jordan, please record your presentations in your own folder. Not in mine.

Okay Okay, that's clear.

Okay. Okay..

Should be better..

Question: What were the things that needed to be completed after the meeting?

Response: The meeting participants have scheduled 30 minutes of individual work after the meeting. The instructions for the task will be sent later to each participant by their personal coach.

Question: Was the remote control intended to change television channels, radio channels, and air conditioning settings?

Response: No. The remote control was only meant to control the television.

Question: That seems like a limitation. Did the participants discuss why it should be that way?

Response: No, the details regarding the limitation were not discussed in the meeting.

Question: Which concerns were discussed in the meeting but were left without a resolution?

Response:
The User Interface Designer was tasked with creating an attractive, easy-to-use user interface that included sophisticated functions.
* Industrial Designer needed to find a way to integrate infrared control into the remote's design.
* The Marketing Expert was to research user preferences, such as wireless vs. wired remote controls.

Question: Besides the task for the User Interface Designer, were there other tasks assigned during the meeting?

Response: Yes. The Industrial Designer was tasked with designing the remote control's physical components and needed to find a way to incorporate infrared control into the design. The Marketing Expert was tasked with conducting user research, including preferences on wired vs. wireless remote controls.

Question: What did the Industrial Designer recommend to do when discussing the remote control's physical components?

Response: The Industrial Designer discussed using a wireless remote control but also mentioned the possibility of incorporating a wire for power supply. They suggested that a mix of both wired and wireless could be a potential solution.

Question: What was eventually decided regarding the user interface design for the remote: stylish, simple, or a mix of both?

Response: The participants discussed regarding the user interface design for the remote: stylish, simple, or a mix of both but unable to make a decision.

Question: Did the participants decide to incorporate a mix of wired and wireless connections for the remote control?

Response: The participants did not decide on whether to incorporate a mix of wired and wireless connections for the remote control. The Marketing Expert was tasked with conducting user research, including preferences on wired vs. wireless remote controls.

Question: What concerns did the participants have about the remote control's durability?

Response: The meeting participants did not raise durability concerns regarding the remote control's design.

Question: Did anyone disagree with the recommendations from the Industrial Designer about the remote control's physical design?

Response: The Industrial Designer's recommendations regarding the remote control's physical design were not discussed or agreed upon in the meeting.