Project Manager: So . To go on from here . Um we have to decide exactly what we're going to do with the remote . Before we leave this meeting , it would be best to say this is what we're going this is the design we're gonna try and get , this is how we're gonna make ourselves look unique .
User Interface: Mm .
Project Manager: Do we go for maybe a remote contro uh sorry , we're gonna go for a remote control obviously , do we go for a small joystick that would operate say changing channels , up and down , and then , what , another button that would say that it's now being used to manoeuvre round the L_C_D_ .
User Interface: Mm yeah . Yeah , I think that's Industrial Designer: We're just saying volume . Should volume be important in the joystick , do you think ?
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: We could use say the left and right for changing channels and the up and down for volume ,
User Interface: For volume .
Project Manager: and Marketing: But we have a frequency of how what people use a remote control for most .
Industrial Designer: Yep .
Project Manager: Okay .
Marketing: Um , power is used like once per hour ,
Industrial Designer: I
Marketing: channel selection is used a hundred and sixty eight per hour ,
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: that's by far the biggest one , and then teletext , is still here , that's like fourteen ,
Project Manager: Vol Volume selection okay , yep ,
Marketing: and volume selection .
Project Manager: the teletext we're gambling with , and we're gonna say it's dead , the way of the dodo Marketing: No , yeah , okay okay . Yeah , um  Project Manager: So we well , sorry , we could maybe even go as far as saying power button , small joystick , L_C_D_ , and then what maybe is it one more button to say that you're using the menu system , and with the possibility of pushing down on the joystick to say okay ? So we're having very very few buttons involved ,
User Interface: Actually how Project Manager: but navigation around a menu for most things .
User Interface: Actually I would say maybe two two function buttons , the y we're now using the menus button and um and an og and an okay button . I mean certainly something I've found with the joystick on mo the joysticks on mobile phones is that a lot of the time th the device mistakes you trying to move it in one direction or the other for pushing down for okay .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: Or vice versa .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: And that's really irritating .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: The o the o the other dis design constraint I think we should bear in mind is that people are you know very much used to using a remote control one handedly , um , so we need to make sure that e even with the joystick , you know something that can just sit comfortably in the palm of the hand and have the joystick just controlled by the thumb .
Project Manager: Okay . So um we're actually that sounds like a rough idea . Do we incorporate the idea of trying to f locate the remote control again via a beeping noise ?
Industrial Designer: Yeah , think so .
Project Manager: Do you mind looking ?
Marketing: Um , I think because it's so small it might be an uh I mean if we only have like two three buttons it might be essential to have to have that Project Manager: The ability to locate it again .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: So that would require a um transmitter maybe attached to the T_V_ , just so that it says find me , and what , a basically a small microphone um on the actual unit , can maybe hide it in the base .
Industrial Designer: Light bulb as well ,
User Interface: Oh . So so
Industrial Designer: no ?
Project Manager: Sorry ?
User Interface: a small speaker you mean .
Project Manager: Some speaker ,
Marketing: Speaker Project Manager: sorry , yeah .
Marketing: yeah .
Industrial Designer: And a light bulb ? No . To flash . No .
User Interface: Project Manager: Um Industrial Designer: Nah , you'd see it anyway , if you hear it .
Project Manager: E us we might be better with the sound possibly we could maybe incorporate
Marketing: W those little key-rings have both ,
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: th e the true fact , considering the cost of an L_E_D_ , we could just incorporate it anyway .
Marketing: so Yeah .
Project Manager: The L_E_D_s can be surprisingly bright now .
Marketing: Yeah . Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: Mm-hmm . Blue ones particularly .
Project Manager: Um . So
User Interface: Plus that's a nice wee design touch .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: by the sounds of it , with what we're suggesting so far , your design um the user interface is still quite open , you could go for quite an interesting design .
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Because we're only going to have a very few key and you've got you know a small L_C_D_ , joystick , e I think it leaves you open to a a potential wide range of shapes , something that can make it stand out slightly .
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Um if you could look into what we've suggested so far , the feasibility of um small transmitter , um and such , maybe if an L_C_D_ screen requires too much power , or such . Ebenezer , um , Marketing Expert Marketing: Well I can give you the frequency , what people what options people use most often , I guess that's gonna be important in the ts defining the the software side of the interface , right .
Project Manager: If ,
Marketing: You want the stuff .
Project Manager: yeah if you could maybe as well see what people think about the idea of this minimalist approach that we've taken , where of a joystick to control the very basic functions , and then the idea of manipulating it like you would a mobile .
Marketing: Okay .
Project Manager: I don't know how easy that will be within the time frame ,
Marketing: Okay .
Project Manager: but could be something we could maybe look into .
Marketing: Mm-hmm . Sure . Sure .
Project Manager: Okay . Um any last comments that anybody would like to put forward ? Anything that they think has been missed out . Bit of a wide open question there of course .
Marketing: Mm .
Project Manager: Feel free to email me if you think that uh we've screwed something up and wanna get it rectified as soon as possible .
Marketing: Sure . 'Kay . Yeah .
Project Manager: Right .
Industrial Designer: So I should just look at um the speaker , the speaker and an L_E_D_ .
User Interface: Project Manager: Speaker and L_E_D_ for locating , um ,
Industrial Designer: And Marketing: Transmitter .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , and a transmitter .
Project Manager: transmitter User Interface: Actually one one wee thought about that . Um , if we do end up trying to market this to television manufacturers then the um then the transmitter could actually be built into the television .
Project Manager: getting the external power source , yep , that's quite true . Um , and something that we can can easily be adopted at the last minute as well I'd say .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: The electronics could be s either placed externally or internally , makes no difference to the final product of the actual remote control ,
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: so that's good .
User Interface: Mm-hmm . You know I think
Project Manager: 'Kay .
User Interface: I mean if it w if we get a major television manufacturer to say y oh yeah we'll have that , save us the bother , then that's you know vast amounts of sales . Quite quickly .
Industrial Designer: P
Project Manager: Oh , one thing that we've almost not talked about at all , my apologies for that , um , user interface , we also need to maybe get the slogan in here , um it's ,
Industrial Designer: Fashion .
Project Manager: I'm pointing at my laptop , what in God Real reaction , and such . So um Industrial Designer: The slogan is Project Manager: Oh , sorry .
Industrial Designer: yeah , the slogan's we put the fashion in electronics , isn't it ?
Project Manager: My apologies . No it could well be , I've probably missed that . Um , I think that's l almost the last minute thing
Industrial Designer: 'S also look cool .
Project Manager: we can just incorporate into the actual plastic on top .
User Interface: Mm .
Project Manager: So I'm not too concerned a that we haven't gone into depth about that . But it might be something you could consider when you're thinking about shapes ?
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: In fact we might like to put a slogan on , and um possibly the two R_s to signify the company . Rather than real reaction .
User Interface: Mm-hmm . Mm . Yeah . I thought the uh the d the double arc could perhaps uh be the uh the enter button .
Project Manager: Sounds good .
User Interface: .
Project Manager: And I'd say that that's us for now . Okay .

Summary: User Interface and Industrial Designer agreed on the intuitive interface design with menu navigation on an LCD screen. Meanwhile, the team would involve as few buttons in the remote control interface as possible. The new remote control would only be for basic functions such as volume adjusting and channel flipping. A separate joystick would be for additional functionality. The new remote control would be the integration of original remote controls for different devices. Voice recognition was unfeasible due to the budget limit. A speaker and a transmitter were desirable, however, for the location function.