Marketing: Um I hate when there's like four different buttons and you have to press to actually turn on the T_V_ like you have to do one for the power of the T_V_ and then like another one to get the actual screen on and something else to get it all going , I don't know . Now they keep combining all different remotes together , and I don't know if I necessarily like that 'cause I feel like you end up with multimedia overload .
User Interface: Marketing: I just wanna watch the T_V_ um .
Project Manager: Hmm .
Marketing: Always gets lost . Some sort of like device to help you find it .
User Interface: I've used , I've used remote controls , for things like T_V_ and the C_D_ player and video recorder and I I guess they're they're pretty neat neat little tools uh . You don't have to get up and walk across the room to change a channel .
Project Manager: Mm .
User Interface: So especially if you're someone really lazy like me they they're pretty nice . Um . I find them they can be a bit annoying , especially , like you know if I'm watching T_V_ I have have to have three separate remote controls of in front of me , you know , one for the T_V_ , one for the digital box , one for m the video recorder as well . Um . And also they tend to they tend to be a bit confusing , they've got too many buttons on them uh too too sort of too sort of complicated when all I really wanna do is switch on and off , change the channel , change the volume .
Industrial Designer: Yeah um . I agree with having too many remotes around . My dad has a whole drawer at home of remotes for various things , and I don't know how to work half of them um . What's important for me , I guess , is that it's easy to use and that there's not too many buttons , they are not too small , you know you know you need to n to know what you're doing . And one thing I particularly like is if you are not um sort of moving it around to get it to work with the infra-red .
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Um , I think there is a way around that ,
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: but I know in my residence right now the the television you sort of have to walk all around the room to get it to turn on ,
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: so i it's just simpler just to just turn around the T_V_ itself , and I think that's if we're gonna make a remote control , it should actually work for what it's doing . So Marketing: What about like batteries and things like that , like are there some remotes that don don't require like batteries or do all remotes require batteries ?
Project Manager: Um I would imagine all of them ,
Industrial Designer: I know .
Project Manager: but we could but it's possible we could use like a lithium battery um that would last a lot longer than like double A_s .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , something that doesn't Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Um like tho those are the batteries that are used in a lot of um M_P_ three players now and that kind of thing . Um .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: Mm .
Project Manager: Um . Okay , it seems we have a little bit of a conflict over um to uh combining all the remotes cont together versus having f five different remotes . So um like you said you don't like having all the buttons on one on one remote , and yet you don't wanna have five remotes . So how do we work with that ?
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
User Interface: Mm .
Industrial Designer: Could we get something that just has No doesn't have all the buttons that you need to program the video recorder or program s other things that I'm not very coherent about , but that just has your major buttons for that work for everything , you know volume control , on , off ,
Project Manager: Mm-hmm .
Industrial Designer: channel changing .
Marketing: And maybe that spatially divides it , so it's like if you're looki if you're trying to get the T_V_ on that's , you know , like the top thing on the remote , I dunno if d be vertical or horizontal in terms of how we're gonna make it , but if it's like all the T_V_ stuff was here ,
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: then all the V_C_R_ stuff was here , all the whatever else we have programmed into it it's all just in its separate place and not like all the on buttons together ,
Project Manager: Mm .
Industrial Designer: N that way Yeah .
Marketing: 'cause then you like , I don't even know what I'm turning on .
Project Manager: Mm .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , and if um if you'd save the more complicated functions maybe for separate remotes that you wouldn't need to use every day .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Okay , so maybe have like one remote that has the main functions on , off , channel changing , volume , and another rote remote with all the special things .
Industrial Designer: Um .
Project Manager: Because that is one thing that um remotes tend to have buttons that the T_V_s no longer have as well .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Project Manager: So like you have to have them somewhere ,
Industrial Designer: Mm .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: 'cause you're gonna m need those special functions occasionally . Um but not necessarily on the m the normal remote .
Industrial Designer: Right .