User Interface: So so here's a look inside your really old-looking remote control . Um you've got a printed a printed uh circuit board here , and you've got all these buttons which kinda press down little rubber nubbies into these little holes that activate Marketing: Project Manager: We've all broke a remote control ri um s yeah . User Interface: Yeah we've all broken a remote control .
Industrial Designer: Marketing: I've User Interface: So you've also got um you've got your chip here , your batteries here , and some sorta electronics . Um Marketing: I just love you tech guys , huh .
Industrial Designer: Yeah there's a thingy and a dingy and Project Manager: You press this and it does th
User Interface: Well  Marketing: Yeah y do jabber User Interface: so you've got here's here's a transistor , and this amplifies your signal ,
Industrial Designer: User Interface: um you've got the L_E_D_ here on the end of the uh uh on the end of the printed circuit board . Um you've got a couple diodes here for I don't know who and whatnot .
Project Manager: I dunno who and whatnot .
User Interface: So  exactly .
Industrial Designer: Nah .
User Interface: So um we've got a i in this in this uh drawing he uh in this example here , this is a eighteen pin um uh chip I dunno .
Marketing: P Yeah .
User Interface: Uh it's two double A_ batteries .
Industrial Designer: User Interface: This is pretty standard remote . So here are options for our power sources . You can use a basic battery , which we've already discussed , um th our tech department also said we have the option of doing some kind of hand dynamo where maybe you crank it or something like that .
Project Manager: 'Kay . Industrial Designer: I wanna change that .
User Interface: I don't know if that's really Marketing: I I gotta I gotta flashlight , and uh User Interface: I don't know we got some qu crazy guys down there in that department so  Industrial Designer: Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: You shake it .
Marketing: yeah but it's interesting 'cause you shake it like this .
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Marketing: Like this .
User Interface: So that's the next bullet is the um the kinetic provision of energy ,
Marketing: And that's on the camera .
Industrial Designer: User Interface: so it's like that flashlight where you have to shake it .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: 'Kay .
User Interface: Uh we've got solar cells , which I don't think is a very good idea because um you could not use your remote at night which doesn't make a lot of sense .
Project Manager: Mm 'kay .
User Interface: And finally we've got our cradle o our power cradle idea .
Project Manager: Okay so we basically have battery versus cradle here ?
User Interface: M battery versus cradle I think is yeah .
Project Manager: Okay .
Industrial Designer: I like the kinetic .
Project Manager: So we have battery versus cradle  Marketing: I g I I figured you would . Yes . Yeah .
User Interface: It could be fun .
Project Manager: It's actually a novel thing because you could sell it a as a novelty , just to be actually serious for a minute here ,
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: you could User Interface: Well it is it is more uh I mean it is more eco-friendly than the than the cradle 'cause you're still using power off the grid with the cradle . So um
Project Manager: Mm . Hmm .
User Interface: our case design . We have uh choices in materials and choices in the general shapes that we can do . Our material choices are a plastic latex um ty or plastic , a rubber latex type thing , uh wood , or titanium . If we go with titanium we're gonna be uh limited in the amount of shapes we can do because it's tough to shape the titanium , and uh Yeah pers
Project Manager: Wood wood would ge would give us a little bit of a marketing niche , wouldn't it .
User Interface: I think wood i Marketing: It it it Project Manager: Nah .
User Interface: I I can't see anybody wanting to use a wooden remote , it's just anti-technology really , you know .
Marketing: Uh .
Project Manager: Okay . Hmm .
Marketing: Uh uh to me in a marketing sense it's not it's not relative . We can we can o we can uh accentuate whatever whatever product you put in there we can find a way to accentuate it .
User Interface: Right .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: And what we may be able to do , and I think this might be the best option is to combine some a couple of these . Um my recommendation personally would be to do some kind of a plastic inner shell with a like a rubber outer shell , to make it um to mak uh like a thick plastic inner shell and a t um kind of a to have that rubber outer shell to make it more durable , and also maybe i I think it feels a little better than the plastic .
Project Manager: 'Kay . Do you get a good grip on the rubber ? Yeah okay . User Interface: Yeah um Marketing: And if you make it from that super rubber , when you drop it on the floor it can bounce right back up in your hand .
User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: You don't even need to lean down to get it .
User Interface: The advantages of working with plastic and rubber is w we we'll have a lot more um options just in terms of shape
Industrial Designer: Marketing: User Interface: because you can extrude plastic in basically any shape you want . So um and then we can cover you know the breakable bits with rubber yeah so um Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: But basically these are curved and double-curved I I believe that the tech department , in their um in their message to me , that they were referring to the number of th curves in the bottom . I have no idea exactly what they're talking about ,
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: but that's what they told me , uncurved , flat , curved , or double-curved .
Industrial Designer: User Interface: I would guess this like this pen would be kinda like a double-curved , where it's curved on m m multiple axes , right ? I think curved means just curved in one axis and double-curved is curved in two axes
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: or surfaces . I have no idea .
Project Manager: I think it might mean something like that sorta shape because a double curve rather than a Marketing: Mm-hmm yeah that's yeah that's what I see .
Project Manager: yeah that's what .
User Interface: Oh okay oh like a wave , okay .
Marketing: Yeah that's what I see also .
User Interface: Alright that makes sense okay . Um okay , with the interface we have the following options , we can u we can use push buttons , we can use a scroll wheel with an integrated push button , and L_C_D_ display ,
Marketing: Ooh .
User Interface: or multiple scrolling wheels . Um so these are all options that the user interface guy can uh has at his disposal to put together a user interface .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: For electronics , we have these very technical um descriptions here . A simple chip , which is the least expensive , but I have no numbers to give you ,
Project Manager: User Interface: a regular chip , which is like the medium porridge the medium expense uh Project Manager: D do we have actually any concept of what the difference is between a simple chip and an advanced chip ?
User Interface: Yes the difference is , with a simple chip a simple chip will operate oh why doesn't this scroll up ? Previous previous , okay . A simple chip is required to operate push buttons .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: Um an advanced chip is required to to operate um the L_C_D_ display , and it didn't say specifically , but I I have a hunch that a regular chip is gonna be the scroll wheel and the multiple scroll wheels .
Project Manager: Okay .
User Interface: So but yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah that makes sense . So presentation from I guess design would go best . Next .
User Interface: That's the end of my presentation .
Project Manager: Technical functions or interface concept ?
User Interface: I think Industrial Designer: Oh interface concept .
Project Manager: Yeah that's it .
Industrial Designer: Very long presentation . Project Manager: Yes , but it has your name on it .
User Interface: Project Manager: User Interface: