Industrial Designer: so it's it's okay , yeah , yeah . And uh different shapes that we can do like uh we can have you know a all animals shapes or you know comfortable uh whi which can fit into your hands
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: and um so that uh Marketing: Now that's good from a marketing point of view , the fun the fun shape .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , yeah , yeah and colours also , different colours , and Project Manager: Yeah I User Interface: Mm-hmm colours .
Marketing: And that you you say that won't add too much to the budget ?
Industrial Designer: No no no , it won't uh I don't think it will be like ,
Marketing: To d the shape is uh Industrial Designer: you can have you know for uh if you want ther there to be more Project Manager: It just build a mould basically and uh you know .
Industrial Designer: Yeah yeah .
User Interface: Yes exactly .
Industrial Designer: It's it's just a s shape so it doesn't matter .
Project Manager: As the budget we're looking at if you build one mould I don't think that's going to make a big difference whether it's gonna be square or Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: Do you think there's any chance of um having ser in having basically the same machine with the same buttons but maybe several different shapes ?
Industrial Designer: Yeah that is also possible I uh yeah I I yeah .
Project Manager: Oh yes .
Marketing: Is that gonna be a possible ?
User Interface: Yes .
Project Manager: I think Marketing: 'Cause that might help with the marketing .
Project Manager: I think we will have to look at the budget on that
Industrial Designer: Yeah that will be Project Manager: but I think in principle that that would be that would be kind of fun , you know .
Industrial Designer: Yeah yeah .
Marketing: Because we had something sort of sexy for adults and we could have something sort of
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Project Manager: Silly for children .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: Yeah , for children , yeah exactly .
Marketing: silly for children
Project Manager: Like an animal or Marketing: or a little animal shape or in a or a little elephant so they can remember where it is . User Interface: Like a doll , or Industrial Designer: Yeah , that's what , yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , exactly . Yeah .
User Interface: Yes .
Industrial Designer: And and the butto buttons also I think if you want to have more features in your remote controller then there should be more buttons . If there are more buttons then it will be more complicated . If you have less features then your remote controller won't be attractive , so I think uh we need to make some buttons which are which are like um uh f in uh in intended for two or three operations , like if you press one button in one mode then it will change the channel , if you press the other button in another mode it will change the colour . So if you want to have less buttons we can have that option but I think it will complicate the matter more I think so .
Marketing: Mm . Well , I think I think that that's something that we'll have to discuss um with the User Interface person
User Interface: Yes .
Industrial Designer: Yep , yeah .
Marketing: because I think there's a lot of argument to be made for one button for one feature . Because I think one of the things were complaining about in my what I found out in my research is when they complained about how hard it is to learn a new one .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: The changing modes was something  Industrial Designer: Yeah , it's like you know yeah .
Marketing: I mean you and I , all f all four of us we work with computers all the time ,
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Yeah , yeah .
User Interface: Okay .
Marketing: changing modes is nothing for us , but people who Project Manager: Yeah , a little elderly , a little arthritic hand you know ,
Marketing: N and Project Manager: and and it's a small button and and it they don't press it exactly
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm . Yeah .
Project Manager: you know something else happens n not their favourite channel comes up but something else
Industrial Designer: Yeah , yes .
Project Manager: and they're very frustrated you know .
User Interface: Something else .
Marketing: And that's and that's the kind of thing people learn by feel , and um you don't feel the mode change .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , yeah you don't us yeah yeah , usually . Yeah .
Marketing: So um maybe having buttons be various shapes might be a help too .
Industrial Designer: Yeah shapes also , different shapes .
Marketing: You know , like the a triangle is for the volume and a square is for changing channels , so that people can uh develop a tactile sense of it .
Industrial Designer: Yeah that will Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Channels .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Yeah .
Project Manager: Mm , mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Yeah ,
Marketing: But we'll get to that with you .
User Interface: Yes .
Industrial Designer: yeah , and also text should be very clear so that there there won't be any ambiguities and uh Marketing: That's right , yeah . Now that's a good point . Yeah .
User Interface: Yes .
Industrial Designer: So yeah .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: And uh display clock i if you want more features then we can display a clock it I I don't think it will take any money extra money because anyway we have an integrated circuit I think we can just definitely fit that feature into the circuit so it's Marketing: Yeah , that's that's a good that's a good one ,
Project Manager: Mm-hmm , mm-hmm .
User Interface: Mm yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , and we display a clock .
Marketing: because the clock would be really friendly ,
Project Manager: Yes .
Marketing: and and when is your favourite show coming on
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yes .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , and then you can just see your remote controller yeah yeah yeah so Project Manager: Yeah you're sitting there already or maybe you have no other uh User Interface: Yes .
Marketing: and  Yeah , and a lot of time there's not a clock on the screen , and you have to go somewhere but you just wanna look at the news for a minute .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: Yeah that's that's good , the clock is good .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Uh can you go to the next slide please ?
Marketing: Okay .
Industrial Designer: Uh components uh the main components we need for uh it ha like buttons and uh underneath that there should be switch . And uh bulbs . Like uh we can have a bulb like whenever we are operating a remote controller or uh whenever the T_V_ is on suppose ,
User Interface: Hmm .
Industrial Designer: then the remote controller should automatically have a b s light .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Then it will be like if you switch on your T_V_ through anoth another source , not from through a remote remote controller and you you lost your remote controller maybe you can find with the light .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Maybe we can have that . Whenever the T_V_ is on , remote controller will have a light .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: And then uh infrared bulbs . Um this is like uh when it is dark .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Yeah , mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: And battery , there should be a battery for power supply ,
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: and a chip ,
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: chip which is like a brain to the remote controller which does all the operations ,
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: and wires connecting all chips , which is uh lights , everything ,
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Okay .
Industrial Designer: so there should be wires . And uh uh of course there should be a case where we can keep all the things and , you know different shapes or whatever it is there should be a case to put to give a shape .
User Interface: To keep the remote ? Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: Case .
User Interface: A case holder . A holder remote holder .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , holder .
Project Manager: Holder , yeah , mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Um uh can you move onto the next slide . Um next sli slide please . Um I have referred the site uh the homepage of the um our website , uh from where I have uh uh I got s few points .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: That's it , that's it from me now .
Project Manager: Okay .
Marketing: So it um we should visit this site and have a look at uh what's up there ? Or Industrial Designer: Um .
Project Manager: Well , you don't have to .
Industrial Designer: Uh it's not like that , I have referred the page to get new ideas or like what can be the working design to how it works and all and so and so .
Marketing: Okay . Okay . So it might be helpful if we had a look at that .
Industrial Designer: Yeah if you want . Yeah , it's okay .
Marketing: Okay , thank you . Could you go back to that slide where she had that uh s slide up Betsy ?
Industrial Designer: Uh , it's actually there now , there on the screen .
Project Manager: This one ?
Marketing: Yeah , okay , thank you .
Project Manager: And Francine ?
User Interface: Participant two .
Project Manager: You are number two ?
User Interface: Yes . No no , I'm three .
Project Manager: You're three . Would you want it full full screen ?
User Interface: I can make it full ? Yes yes yes .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm ? Okay .
User Interface: Okay . As uh User Interface Designer I did a little research to find out what are the features which a user would like to have on their remote .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Yeah can you please go onto the next slide ?
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: So I found out that uh but uh the main purpose of a remote is to uh f control the function of a television at a far off distance at remote distance . Now for that , uh a remote controller should have a switch on off button by which a user can sit anywhere in the room in front of the T_V_ and he can control the functionalities different functionalities of the T_V_ .
Marketing: Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: There should be a signal uh something like a radio wave or a infrared light or a LED which can be used to change the different functionalities in the television if the user wants to uh change the channels or increase the volume he can change it .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Now there should be some timer to set for viewing a particular a particular programme or switching on and off a uh a particular programme according to the user choice .
Project Manager: On the on on the remote . Yeah , mm-hmm .
User Interface: Yes . Yes . So if if he want to view a particular programme at say nine o'clock he can set the time , and the T_V_ will automatically it will switch on at that particular time .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm . Right . Mm-hmm .
User Interface: So he can use that kind of uh uh properties of features and then there should be a child lock system if a particular channel is not to be viewed by a particular uh for a certain age , then the parents can lock that particular channel so that the ch children cannot view that channel .
Project Manager: Yes . By your child , mm-hmm .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: And uh the uh the uh and the one of the feature a user would like to have is the compactness of the co remote .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Uh t the remote should be compact and it should ha it should have as many buttons as possible for controlling different functionalities of the T_V_ television . And um uh as uh uh this is my personal preference that it should be in the shape of a T_ in alphabet for more compactability .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: And uh and uh and it is one more point which I noted it down , like uh the material which which which is used for remotes should be human friendly it should not cause any skin disease or something some al allergy to either children or to um ad adult person .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm . Mm-hmm .
Marketing: Mm , 'kay .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: And it should have an uh it can have an alarm clock a a person if some if somebody wants to get up at around eight eight P_M_ then he can set the time and it can be used as an alarm clock ,
Industrial Designer: Mm .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: and I don't think it will cost much to set an alarm clock inside a remote .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , sure .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: If there is a clock then there can be a alarm clock .
User Interface: Yes ,
Marketing: And an alarm clock , yeah that should that should be okay .
User Interface: and as John Reece said the buttons can be , uh can me we can use the fluorescence to light up the buttons so different uh buttons will glow differently . So in even in the dark the user can know what buttons to use to switch on a particular channel . And uh uh the design of the uh um remote should be in such a way that there should not be any sharp projections so that if a child plays with a remote , he uh he should not be harmed in any way .