Industrial Designer: So I took these all into consideration and also I have some limitations from the boss .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Right um , and practical limitations which I kinda threw out the window .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: And so I did a little research and unfortunately all I had to work on was our uh our corporate archives of the great products we've made before ,
User Interface: Industrial Designer: which include , you know , um space craft , coffee makers , and bullet trains Or uh or a high speed train .
Project Manager: Ah is that what that is ? User Interface: Industrial Designer: Right and having personally worked with all these products uh I have a great deal of experience with uh with industrial design of these .
User Interface: Project Manager: Well that's cool . If you if you can build space craft you'll have no problem with a remote control , yeah .
Industrial Designer: Right . So ,
User Interface: Yeah sure .
Industrial Designer: I figured , just put 'em all together .
Project Manager: Industrial Designer: You got a a caffeine powered space shuttle train transport to your T_V_ , and um
User Interface: Project Manager: Marketing: Hmm .
Industrial Designer: as for the user interface problem , you know , too many buttons . Give it one button
User Interface: Industrial Designer: and and it's a you know , for the the cowboy in all of us Marketing: Project Manager: Industrial Designer: I I'm not quite sure what the the function is there but Project Manager: Right okay . User Interface: Well I like that design . Industrial Designer: Yeah it's a g I mean you could have a you know a Project Manager: Is that just switches on the speech recognition and it's entirely speech operated , is it ?
Industrial Designer: Right . So I think I I missed the budget thing ,
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: it was fifty million Euros ?
User Interface: Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: And we gotta sell twenty five of them ? Right . Okay . User Interface: Yeah , not a problem .
Marketing: Fifty million was uh prof
Project Manager: Ah now it's fif fifty million Euros we've gotta uh we've g Marketing: As a profit .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: Oh okay , so I I mixed those numbers .
Project Manager: gotta make profit , so we're making that at twelve and a half Euros a time .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: Okay . Well I guess more realistically then , we need a product that's got some kinda nifty outer casing , cheap plastic uh , you know , um that should be just like uh a tenth of the price maybe or less .
User Interface: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: An energy source which'd probably just be uh your regular batteries Project Manager: Okay .
Industrial Designer: um , we don't wanna have it Project Manager: Would it be possible to have the rechargeable idea ? Is that is that gonna mark up a lot ?
Industrial Designer: Uh .
User Interface: Or a little base station or something , .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , yeah , we could do that too . Um , I hadn't thought of that . Yeah .
User Interface: That might cost more though , 'cause obviously with batteries we don't need to provide , well we provide the first batteries , but it's more , it's that's cheaper to just provide batteries .
Project Manager: Yeah , yeah .
Industrial Designer: Right .
Project Manager: I mean if you think about these base stations now it's essentially just a a lead with a sort of self connecting brake in it ,
User Interface: A battery in it , kinda .
Project Manager: so I don't think it'd up up the price that much .
Industrial Designer: Right , so so User Interface: Okay .
Industrial Designer: the unirs the user interface
User Interface: Okay .
Industrial Designer: uh the canonical user interface for these would be just a bunch of buttons , but since we're a cutting edge company , we uh of course will have alternatives like uh speech recognition , whistling recognition and rocket power
Project Manager: Okay . Industrial Designer: behind our product .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: Um and lastly the transmission interface is uh , just some engineering thing you don't have to worry about .
Project Manager: Okay . Industrial Designer: Um so here's you know , a great schematic that my uh apprentice designer gave me .
Project Manager: User Interface: Industrial Designer: Um as you can see the the remote control have parts and those parts look like that and um you know it's got a little operating procedure that looks something like that . And I suppose you all know how it works because we've all used it and we wouldn't be in a company designing remote controls if we didn't know what they were so uh personal preferences , I think uh programmable options which um just require a small amount of memory , uh non volatile memory , just um so the user can put in their favourite channels and maybe their preferred volume settings so that when they turn it on it's not blasting .
User Interface: Mm . Mm that's a good idea actually I like the programmable options .
Marketing: Yeah , me too .
Industrial Designer: Oh okay . And the uh , the bells and whistles that we mentioned you know , they take more budgeting , um more technical uh expenditure of effort
Project Manager: User Interface: Industrial Designer: and it's also much more likely to not work if if we add these bells and whistles .
Project Manager: Right .
User Interface: Mm 'kay .
Industrial Designer: Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: That's all I got .
Project Manager: 'Kay , thank you very much , um I'll take that back .
Industrial Designer: Project Manager: Industrial Designer: Ooh that's tight .