Industrial Designer: Should be just loading . Okay . Oh , although I can't see it on my screen . That says go here . Okay . I've been doing some research into the different components that we could use , um what's available to us f to actually make the remote control . Um , first of all we have to look at how the remote control is actually made , and what is it happens inside the casing , which is more your field . Um , thes main internal feature is a circuit board , which contains all the elec electronics and also the contacts with the power source .
Marketing: Industrial Designer: Which is not necessarily a battery , as we're about to see . Um , there are several components of , um , the circuit board that we need to consider , where we'll be getting them from , what they'll be made of . Um , including the integrated circuit , which is also known as the chip . Which is where all the main information is uh contained . Um , diodes , transistors , resonators , resistors , and capacit capacitors all need to be considered as well . Um , and all their positioning in the circuit .
Project Manager: Um Are they all included , like mandatorily , or r are these different options ?
Industrial Designer: Uh , these , they're all different options , they're all separate , apart from the chip , which we will probable decide whether we buy a simple , a regular , advanced .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: We can go into that later . Um , all the other things are individual components that we'd have to get in separately , and work out the most , like , effective um circuit , including all the wires and everything like that . And the L_E_D_ of course , that's a light emitting diode . So , we could , so we've got flex flexibility with colours and things , with that as well .
Project Manager: Mm .
Industrial Designer: Okay , there are lots of different possibilities for the energy source . We could use a basic battery , but that brings with it , like they need to be recharged and the bulk , the size of it as well . And they're not so great to dispose of , environmentally . There's a hand-powered dynamo which is a sort of thing that was used for torches fifty years ago . A bit out of date . Kinetic energy is something that's been recently developed .
Project Manager: Um What is a hand-powered dynamo ?
Industrial Designer: Um , where you manually charge up the power .
Project Manager: Just every , every once in a while ?
Industrial Designer: Like you wind up something .
Project Manager: Just every once in a while or constantly ?
Industrial Designer: Sorry ? Yeah . Every once in a while I think
Project Manager: Alright . It'd be kind of strange to always be cranking it I think .
Industrial Designer: . But it's Yeah . It would be like going a step back in time .
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: I don't think it would really be with kind of cutting edge technology .
Project Manager: No . Marketing: Industrial Designer: Whereas kinetic energy is a new idea that's being used by some watches and other devices , where you just shake the device and it gives it power . I mean , the kinetic energy is transformed into power to make the circuit work . Um , or there's solar power , which we've been considering inside a building , which is where it's gonna be used , might not be quite so useful .
Project Manager: Right .
Industrial Designer: But , good to look into , renewable energy , always the way . Um , lots of considerations for the case , like what sort of shape it would be , curved or flat . That's got a lot to do with the ergonomics . Like how it's comfortable and s sits in the hand . We don't want something that's huge and you can't pick up . Or too small . Or too slidy . I know I've had a remote control before which you couldn't tell which was the front and the back ,
User Interface: Industrial Designer: 'cause it had so many buttons on , and the shape was so symmetrical that I'd be pressing like a volume button instead of the on button .
Marketing: Mm .
Industrial Designer: Because you can't really see which way round it is .
Project Manager: Right .
Industrial Designer: Um , we also can choose what materials um , the we could use metal , we could use rubber which might be more um ideal for the anti-R_S_I_ . It's like the same sort of rubber that's used in stress balls and things like that , so it's very like soft , not so stressful on your hands .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Wood .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Um , again , stepping back in time again there .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: I don't think that's quite up to date with what we're looking for here .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Um , titanium is not gonna be possible , even though it just it beyond our budget really . But , would've been maybe for future projects . Um right our choice for buttons as well . We've developed some we've got some good advances in technology , with our research team have found some uh new multiple um option scroll buttons . I think that was brought up for , um , they're basically quite a flexible design , modern , you don't have to use individual buttons . You can just slide up and down . I'm sure we're all quite familiar with those on mobiles or computer laptop pads .
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Um one thing with the scroll buttons though . It , it Industrial Designer: Project Manager: we would have to have an L_C_D_ um
Industrial Designer: Yeah . That's true .
Project Manager: display , and the glow in the dark thing might be difficult .
Industrial Designer: And that would lead to an advanced yeah . If we have yeah . We're going on to that later with the advanc with the L_C_D_ that means we'd need a really advanced chip .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: And it's unlikely that that's gonna be in our budget .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Um , also we've got the integrated pushbutton , which is what we're most familiar with . It's the most straightforward . But you can in like incorporate that with a scroll button as well . . Got decisions to make there . And this is what I was just saying before . Linked in the different depends on what type of buttons we have and the inputs . Um simple would go with the pushbutton . Um , regular you could link with the scroll button . And the advanced we'd have to go with a L_C_D_ s display .
Project Manager: Right .
Industrial Designer: My personal preferences ? I think we could go for the kinetic energy source . I don't , I think that's quite um an advanced kind of technology . It's not been seen before , so it could be quite a , a novelty factor , attractive as well . And also energy saving 'cause you're producing the energy , you don't need an external sort of battery supply or solar panels . You just give it a shake .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Sounds brilliant to me .
Project Manager: Uh .
Industrial Designer: Rubber casing I thing would probably the best , if we're going for the anti-R_S_I_ and like more choice with um aesthetics . Like it could be pretty much any colour we want . Um , and gives you , yeah , more flexibility there . And probably the regular chip as opposed to the simple ,
Marketing: Industrial Designer: then we could possibly have the scroll and the push , but no L_C_D_ , 'cause we probably can't afford that one .
Project Manager: Yeah . Um , one concern with the rubber casing is that it would be rubber encapsulating all of these chips and diodes and delicate technology as
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: like as the exterior . This is the one thing that's protecting its innards .
Industrial Designer: I think that would , uh there would be an in sort of more internal casing . And the rubber would just be the , what's in contact with the human .
Project Manager: Yeah . Another thing is it might be more difficult if it's a rubber exterior talking about putting on interchangeable plates .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Um , is it Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: I don't see how a like a rubber plate going on top it would stay there . Like if it was sort of like a clip-on plastic plate . It would work that way .
Industrial Designer: Maybe if the , um , if it was just kind of a , more of a rubber coating which was on to a case .
User Interface: W
Industrial Designer: So , it was kind of , the whole thing would be removable .
User Interface: Like plastic with rubber , kind of on top
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Like I can't think of what .
User Interface: Well , there's , there is a certain phone that has like a rubber casing ,
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Or like an User Interface: b like a Nokia it is .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: you can get sort of outer casing for iPods and something , that's just it's protective as well .
User Interface: It's yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: Like the skin ?
Industrial Designer: It , it stops it , I mean ,
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: it would reduce the impact if it was dropped or something , as well , 'cause it wouldn't damage itself so easily .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Project Manager: Alright . So maybe the Industrial Designer: I think i maybe a mixture of both there , maybe .
Marketing: Okay .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: So the actual remote would be hard plastic and the casings rubber .
Industrial Designer: And then yeah . Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: Okay .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: And the buttons obviously are rubber .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: Okay .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: Project Manager: That sounds good . I , um , is it possible to put designs onto this type of rubber ?
Industrial Designer: As far as I know . It should be .
Project Manager: Okay ,
Marketing: Project Manager: we'll just say yeah . User Interface: Project Manager: Yes , just why not .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Yeah , yeah . Project Manager: Alright . I like the kinetic energy source idea .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Um , I don't know when people will , um , be moving a remote around a lot .
Industrial Designer: I thought that was Project Manager: But I think that it's worth it , kinetety , kinetic um
User Interface: Yeah , tha
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: energy source . It could make an we could have any kind of style .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: It wouldn't be as heavy or bulky , and Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah . Just for environmental reasons .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
User Interface: Marketing: I guess it's a bit scary 'cause it hasn't been done before .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: So it seems we'd have to do more research on it .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: Or I dunno if you could have a battery pack .
Industrial Designer: Like as a backup for something .
User Interface: Backup . Yeah .
Marketing: Yeah so there's there is a one battery , because most remotes use two batteries I believe .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: So , if it was running off of one battery as a User Interface: That would be good yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Some alternative just in case something went wrong .
Marketing: Right .
User Interface: Maybe we could you were saying about um solar power ma maybe not working indoors , but a lot of calculators , yeah , have solar power .
Industrial Designer: That's true . I just thought of that .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Yeah . Yeah .
User Interface: So maybe that could be incorporated as Industrial Designer: May maybe that could be the backup .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Instead of a battery .
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Like solar backup .
Marketing: Although it needs some light , doesn't it ?
Industrial Designer: Yeah . I suppose
Project Manager: Yeah , you can watch a T_V_ in the dark then .
User Interface: Do , do those calculators Industrial Designer: s but some Marketing: So , if we're doing User Interface: yeah .
Marketing: yeah . If we're Industrial Designer: But thing is , it's not you don't need the solar all the time .
User Interface: I don't know how it works .
Industrial Designer: It can be stored . It can be like you can have the solar energy and then it can store that energy and use it .
User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: It just needs to be in light for a certain amount of time per day .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Like a few hours a day . .
Project Manager: I think that might be a little impractical though .
Marketing: Yeah . I think sometimes it's just shoved under , under a cushion ,
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: and yeah .
Industrial Designer: That's true . It could easily User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Like people don't wanna have to worry about that .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: I suppose it would be really annoying if you get to think , oh no , I forgot to charge my remote today .
User Interface:  Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Like if the kinetic thing , I think what's best about that is that it's instant energy .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: You don't have to , you know , you can shake it a few times , or whatever .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: And it works .
Project Manager: Or just like pick it up when you're gonna use it .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Instead of you don't have to like make sure it's in the right place to charge and .
User Interface: Yeah , I suppose .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Alright . Cool .
Industrial Designer: K okay .
Project Manager: 'S that the end of your presentation .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Alright .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Thank you .
Industrial Designer: There we go .
User Interface: Thanks . Oh . It's not on my screen .
Industrial Designer: it wasn't on mine either .
User Interface: Why ? Industrial Designer: I don't know why . I think , I just , I just used the mouse on there .
User Interface: You don't know why ? Oh okay . Is it that one ?
Project Manager: Yeah . That's um Industrial Designer: Yeah .
User Interface: Um , I'm just gonna go through the interface concept with yous now . Uh , first of all I'll explain what a user interface is . It's the aspects of a computer system which can be seen or otherwise perceived , for example , heard or felt maybe , or by the human user . And it's also the commands that the user uses to control its operation and to input data . Um , there are two types of user interfaces . There's the graphical user interface , which emphasises the use of pictures for output and a pointing device , for example a mouse for input control . So that's sort of like the scroll thing we were talking about .
Project Manager: Oh . Okay . Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah . I'm not really sure about the pictures that maybe that's on an L_C_D_ screen .
Industrial Designer: Mm .
User Interface: Or maybe it's the the buttons or pictures or something . Project Manager: Hmm .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Do you think it's Project Manager: Yeah , 'cause Industrial Designer: So I suppose sometime Project Manager: I'm sorry ?
Industrial Designer: after you . User Interface: Project Manager: Um , because command interface requires you to type textual commands and input at a keyboard , so the numbers are sort of like a keyboard . You're pressing the numbers for , um , for what you want .
User Interface: Yeah . Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Mm .
User Interface: So you must , for the graphical user you must need some kind of presentation for the graphics .
Industrial Designer: I s I suppose where um mm on some buttons you would have like the power would be s some kind of symbol .
User Interface: Like an L_C_D_ screen .
Industrial Designer: And if you wanted to go onto teletext or ,
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: I know we're not having that , but I mean a similar thing ,
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: you , they have there's a like little picture with a screen with lines across it , which I suppose it's that sort of thing like the , the symbol on the button .
User Interface: Yeah . Yeah .