User Interface: and most people have their televisions in the living room . Uh . Project Manager: Alright well we can we can discuss that one further when we think about um whether th when we do costs and so forth , um .
Marketing: Yeah . Oh yeah .
User Interface: Sure .
Project Manager: True , if plastic is dead cheap and if we're making the whole thing out of plastic anyway um yeah we'll cross that bridge later um but yeah we will have to evaluate what's most important . Um I think we've had a bit of discussion already on this thing , n s there any other questions comments that came up in these presentations ?
User Interface: Well have we confirmed that we're gonna go ahead with a uh touch screen um Project Manager: Yeah yeah okay . Um User Interface: Interface ?
Project Manager: Yeah I think that would be best . Let's based on what sh on what you guys have all said to me let's go for a plastic built or uh b plastic cased 'cause tha tha that's easy on the cost , try to look for some kind of high quality recycled plastic as you recommended and I think that's a great idea . With a touch screen for the basic functions . Um And we'll yeah tha let's provisionally let's go for a touch screen one with several submenus um for possible extra stuff that one basically put the channel and the on and off switch on the touch screen . Um do we have Mm wait a minute it occurs to me that if we have a touch screen people are going to have to recharge their remote controls . Yet at the same time that might help for this whole complaint of it being lost .
Marketing: True . 'Cause it would have a docking base ?
Project Manager: Mm-hmm . But then again that costs as well .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: Hmm .
Marketing: Industrial Designer: User Interface: So these new lithium batteries they last twenty years even with the touch screen ?
Project Manager: Do they ? Okay .
User Interface: Those new ones .
Industrial Designer: Can we afford to include one of those ?
Marketing: Can we afford that ?
User Interface: Marketing: And will somebody buy it if we don't ? Industrial Designer: Project Manager: Well I I don't think yeah I can't see anybody buying a lap a remote control that they have to plug in so we'd have to see some kind of new battery technology .
Marketing: Right .
Project Manager: Okay so let's go with a um touch screen with um some kind of you know with with some kind of cutting edge battery technology Marketing: For twelve Euros ? User Interface: Project Manager: Yeah well hey you know well it's it's worth looking into , if not we can always default to just doing a a well presented plastic simple
Marketing: It is . Fair enough .
Industrial Designer: Project Manager: you know so you know . Well yeah I mean
Marketing: The basics .
Project Manager: you can put the we could I I dunno I mean I suppose we could put the the basics on the centre easiest you know , you know people know the channel and volume function make them large and easy to get at and then the the other the other bits and bobs you know go through menu um w we'll do the aesthetics .
Marketing: Mm .
Project Manager: Okay so we'll touch screen and the battery , focus on um uh presentation .
Marketing: 'Kay .
Project Manager: Um it's th uh with this voice recognition option as well um just as for the simple functions the um the on off , channels , volume , um
Industrial Designer: Right .
Project Manager: and um a small paging function . Even if you can't do voice recognition for the paging you know just some kind of simple button that's just a I guess another infrared signal to the remote control and while to emit some kind of paging . Just a beep .
Industrial Designer: Okay .
Project Manager: Um right so any comments ? Thoughts before we break into go into the next round of individual work on this .
Industrial Designer: Since we're doing uh touch screen , do we wanna look into the possibility of people being able to input different types of skins for the you know the actual interface part of it and things like that ? Or is it just gonna be one touch screen for everybody .
User Interface: Be interesting .
Marketing: Mm .
Industrial Designer: What what would be on that touch screen ? 'Cause you said earlier that we have to think about company colours and um
Marketing: And oh .
Industrial Designer: logo or something or motto , I can't remember exactly what you said .
Marketing: Yeah the the fashion
User Interface: We put fashion into electronics .
Marketing: do . Yeah .
Project Manager: W it's my understanding that if you were going to do a skin you'd need to have some way for people to download or import skins into the remote control .
Marketing: Right , and then you're dealing with ports and cords and Project Manager: Yeah I think perhaps Industrial Designer: 'S too much .
Project Manager: good idea but yeah
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: I think that that one m might just be um and they just yeah I think that one might just be out of the range for this particular Marketing: For now .
Project Manager: a P_D_A_ would they would makes a lot of sense for a P_D_A_ 'cause you're gonna be using it to connect up to things anyway but I dunno , what do you guys think ?
Industrial Designer: Think we just need to come up with a nice black and red interface on the touch screen .
Marketing: Yeah . Nice .
Industrial Designer: That'd be okay .
User Interface: Yeah . Uh I I'm I'm in agreement with that , I'm wondering how we're gonna get uh we put fashion into electronics onto this device .
Marketing: Um . Well but if we're gonna use a touch screen where it's gonna come on like on your cell phone it'll have your your carrier provider name come up first like while it's loading
Project Manager: Hmm .
Marketing: and then it goes away , perhaps it could be like a temporary Project Manager: Mm .
Marketing: Comes on every time you turn it on and then that's it 'cause it is a bit much to have it like engraved on the back or something I think .
Industrial Designer: Mm . True .
User Interface: Project Manager: Yeah . Yeah .
User Interface: I'm hoping for a subliminal maybe half a millisecond as it turns on . Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Marketing: Y Project Manager: Yeah . Yeah I know I d it seems like it would suffice to have just the R_R_ on there .
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Jus
Marketing: Yeah you would think .
Project Manager: But apparently not .
Marketing: But .
Project Manager: So .
Industrial Designer: People aren't gonna want their remote to boot up and to see flashing things come on .
Marketing: If it comes from above .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: They just want it to be on and ready to go .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: Yeah . Project Manager: Well fair enough . Um and yeah that would help the battery life too and if it the remote they do have to press a button for the remote to turn on . But then again who wants to turn on a remote control . Kind of if i
User Interface: Well all you have to do is touch the screen and it automatically goes on .
Project Manager: Oh
Marketing: Mm .
Project Manager: to wake up okay or go into like a dormant mode .
User Interface: Yep . Goes into a sleep mode .
Project Manager: Okay . Oh yeah I like that I like the idea of um putting the logo in the boot up screen , nice . Um . Um cool so any last things before we break ? Alright . Fair enough . Sounds good .
Marketing: We're good ?
Project Manager: I'm gonna save th a copy of this in case you guys need any reminders . I'm gonna save a copy of this and the minutes that I'll do it in a second and put them in the shared folder for later reference .
User Interface: I've put my files in the shared folder as well .
Project Manager: Brilliant .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: That's fab guys . Cool .