Marketing: Yeah yeah
User Interface: Marketing: so a lot of people have to be able to use it .
Industrial Designer: No but uh the b the buttons have to uh have to have uh international recognisable buttons and uh
Marketing: So User Interface: Easy to learn .
Marketing: Yeah . Yeah that's right .
Project Manager: Yes .
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: and numbers and uh that every culture in uh , yeah , people in every country can recognise .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: I'll make uh notes and then uh maybe uh well I'll put it in the project uh folder when I'm done uh just now .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
User Interface: I also think we should not add too many buttons .
Industrial Designer: Alright .
Marketing: Right .
Project Manager: No that's right .
User Interface: Modern day uh remotes have too much buttons I think .
Project Manager: Y y you don't use uh the half of them that's that's User Interface: Precisely .
Project Manager: culture uh international .
Marketing: Maybe we could make one button to switch between D_V_D_ player and T_V_
User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: and make the other buttons uh multi-functional or something .
Project Manager: Yes .
User Interface: Yeah indeed .
Industrial Designer: Yeah so it doesn't uh become too complicated with too much buttons and uh Marketing: Yeah right .
Project Manager: Yep , and maybe we do uh we even have uh more than just a D_V_D_ player . Don't we have uh other uh ou
User Interface: Yeah we should make it compatible perhaps with everything we use , we uh we make ?
Project Manager: Uh .
Industrial Designer: And stereo uh s uh audio installations .
Project Manager: We also uh just uh released a T_F_T_ uh thing I saw .
Marketing: Yeah so but th that's kind kind of standard T_ television so it also works on that .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yep .
User Interface: And I think the people who who will buy our uh remote already have some experience with remotes . So we can keep that in mind .
Industrial Designer: Most people do , yeah .
Project Manager: Well yeah .
Industrial Designer: It doesn't Project Manager: It doesn't have to be , but we can .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: it doesn't have to be User Interface: W well it's a n it's a new remote and you don't buy a remote if you don't have anything to uh to control with it .
Project Manager: Well except if we deliver it together with our D_V_D_ .
Marketing: Yeah but Industrial Designer: Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah alright , but Marketing: We need to to keep it consistent with other d uh Project Manager: Yeah because we look at competitors
Industrial Designer: Well .
Project Manager: and w if we pick up the good things about that and give it a nice design Industrial Designer: Hmm .
Marketing: Yeah but it's it has to be useable .
Industrial Designer: It has to be different and familiar at the same time .
Project Manager: Yes .
User Interface: Yeah . Yeah
Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: we could use another form or shape or colour , that kind of things .
Project Manager: Yep .
Industrial Designer: yeah the shape will will have to be recognised . I thought about uh like most uh remote controls uh are uh a long box shaped thing Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: you can make it uh triangle shaped ,
User Interface: Well we we could make more more oval or something , and and Industrial Designer: but that's not uh very recognisable .
Marketing: No .
Project Manager: Oo
Industrial Designer: Oval ?
Project Manager: N we can use uh it as a as a game pad .
User Interface: Yeah or so
Industrial Designer: I Project Manager: So one hand has the beer , so the other hand uh  User Interface: Well yeah it's new . Industrial Designer: Mm . Marketing: . Not with two hands . User Interface: Marketing: Yeah yeah yeah , right .
User Interface: but young people want something different
Marketing: No  User Interface: and it is Project Manager: Well i we already uh Marketing: Yeah but it's quite important that it fits .
Project Manager: one of our aims is that it has to be original and trendy so User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Oh but it ha it has to be m
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: yeah . But you still have to know it's a remote and not another Project Manager: Well there has been done a lot of researches about remotes uh we have to we can imagine uh
User Interface: Yeah alright .
Project Manager: because it's a long time uh on the market . So the the form will have been uh tested out so Industrial Designer: Yeah . Yeah so the long box uh shaped thing must be uh , yeah , useful
Project Manager: Yes . Well Industrial Designer: or else uh they would have been ano another shape .
Project Manager: for me personally I have a a lot of remotes uh at home but those ones that have a a round ending and uh well uh just an uh square uh middle I don't like to use them . I have uh have to it has to fit my hands .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: When it falls over it and I just have and then the button that I use most has to be here .
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Yeah
Marketing: It shouldn't be boxy .
Industrial Designer: a lo the long box shape yeah . You have to use one hand .
Project Manager: It f it fits your hands and then you just push the button that you use most with thumb .
Marketing: Nah I don't agree with the long box uh shape Industrial Designer: Why not ?
Marketing: it it has to be custom made for the hand .
User Interface: Yeah it doesn't fit .
Project Manager: Tho tho those new D_V_D_ players on the market do have those .
Marketing: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: But it does fit in the hand if you hold it like this , and you can make it another shape ,
Marketing: Yeah but if you shape it Industrial Designer: but then you have User Interface: No if y if you look at new Phillips uh D_V_D_ with their uh remotes pl players they they are the new remotes aren't box shaped .
Marketing: If Project Manager: D_V_D_ players . Yes . Marketing: Industrial Designer: W no w what else ?
Marketing: No that's ol old fashioned .
Industrial Designer: I di
User Interface: Well Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Yeah well but uh what what what do you suggest then ?
User Interface: Yes uh Marketing: I can imagine that us
User Interface: Well most of of them are are somewhat thicker at the end , and get um yeah thinner towards the uh the other end .
Marketing: Yeah right . It fits in your palms .
Industrial Designer: Hmm . Well User Interface: Mm .
Industrial Designer: but it's still then uh the the long box , uh but then with some uh round uh round forms in it to fit your hand ,
User Interface: Yeah it Project Manager: Well Marketing: Hmm ?
Project Manager: A it h it has it it has a that's tha th th shape that it fits your hand .
Marketing: Um .
Industrial Designer: but it's it's still Yeah yeah al alright
Project Manager: That's Industrial Designer: but but it's still it's still sort of box , yeah .
Marketing: .
User Interface: Yeah yea
Industrial Designer: It it has round forms
Marketing: Well Industrial Designer: but it in the end it's still the box , so that's what I mean .
Marketing: Yeah but it has it has to fit your hand .
Industrial Designer: Yeah yeah I understand , but no no I don't mean an entire box like completely square
Marketing: It shouldn't be too boxy , you know .
User Interface: Hmm .
Marketing: It's Project Manager: Marketing: No no no .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: but a also with round edges of course ,
User Interface: .
Industrial Designer: but in in in at the end it's still this long box shape with convenient uh round uh shapes uh to fit .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: Marketing: Right maybe something like this
Industrial Designer: Yeah yes Marketing: and then a button here to switch between different systems like D_V_D_ player
Industrial Designer: I thought about something like that . Yeah .
Marketing: and so you can I've Industrial Designer: A big recognisable button on top or something .
Marketing: Yeah right , and I do think we have to keep this kind of idea with the with the numbers and  User Interface: Yeah .
Project Manager: We have five minutes left .
Industrial Designer: The buttons should uh also be not too small , not too big , of course ,
Marketing: Right .
User Interface: Project Manager: Yes
Industrial Designer: and uh n uh uh not too close uh together .
Project Manager: uh that's yep .
Marketing: But it should be possible to to um make it ap apparent that there are two functions for every button .
Project Manager: Yep .
Industrial Designer: Uh-huh .
Marketing: So there has to be some space between the buttons .
Industrial Designer: Yeah of course uh to uh to uh to have icons to explain the different functions .
Marketing: Yeah . Yeah right right ,
Industrial Designer: Yeah .
Marketing: and maybe we should use colours .
User Interface: Yeah maybe we can um just like on cell phones those um well  you can you can put on on them ,
Industrial Designer: Colours , yeah .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: Ha .
User Interface: and so you can customise your uh your own remote with different colours or or special paint jobs Marketing: That's kinda trendy . Yeah right .
Project Manager: Sound nice . Yes .
User Interface: I dunno but Industrial Designer: I think we have to talk also about uh the the materials for um Project Manager: Well it's just uh about our first ideas now
User Interface: Well  Industrial Designer: .
Project Manager: so I think individually we'll have to uh come up with ideas for the next meeting about these materials and markets etcetera .
Industrial Designer: Marketing: Right . But Project Manager: Yes ?
Industrial Designer: Already thought about something tha Marketing: I think it's uh it's important to uh notate all the the decisions that we make ,
Project Manager: Yes .
Marketing: so we  Project Manager: Well thirty minutes we have . So um User Interface: Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: This is about uh what we are going to uh do uh . You'll get specific instructions when you're back in your room so uh it's uh logical uh . I think .
Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: .
Marketing: No problem .
Project Manager: Oh and uh that's uh that's all . So we'll just get a notice that the the meeting is uh over .
Industrial Designer: Yeah now we can still talk about the material ,
Project Manager: Yeah yes say .
User Interface: Mm .
Industrial Designer: we have some some minutes left uh I w wrote down uh that the case should be plastic of course , hard plastic , the buttons should be uh rubbery I think uh .
Marketing: Yeah . Yeah it shouldn't be too heavy .
User Interface: .
Project Manager: Well I have had remotes that um they had uh the function of the buttons was about uh uh a layer over the buttons
User Interface: .
Industrial Designer: No n n
Project Manager: and when I've had use it much it was gone . So it has to be made in the buttons I think .
User Interface: Yeah that's bad , yeah .
Marketing: Yeah yeah yeah .
Project Manager: It has to uh not be loose .
User Interface: Yeah that's important .
Industrial Designer: Mm . Alright . And of course there are several electrical cables in it to uh to connect things uh to each other .
Project Manager: Yeah . Is there an a universal uh universal way of um transmitting from the remote to the television so it's all about uh Industrial Designer: I think so .
Marketing: Yeah it's univ yeah yeah yeah .
Industrial Designer: It's a a common stan standard way Project Manager: It's not that in China it's different ?
Marketing: Yep .
Industrial Designer: infrared beams an infrared beam I think .
Project Manager: Yeah . But y you can have uh of course different between D_V_D_s and televisions and between Marketing: And you can use Industrial Designer: It it's a we we make an a universal remote so it ha has to work with uh all kinds of brands and things .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah .
User Interface: Yeah . But our T_V_s are mostly made in China and that sort of country , so Project Manager: Probably yes .
Marketing: Project Manager: China rules . User Interface: Industrial Designer: And have well yeah I've wrote something down about how it works . The user presses a button and with an infrared beam it signals the television set accordingly ,
Project Manager: Marketing: But are Industrial Designer: but that's pretty obvious , I think . Project Manager: User Interface: Marketing: Are we going w uh with the front uh fronts uh idea ?
Project Manager: Well I think uh w we can look into that in the in the next uh thirty minutes .
Marketing: I think we should make it universal
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: and you can always use a front front on it , you know ? You can use it just plain
Project Manager: Yes .
User Interface: .
Marketing: but you can  To make it more trendy .
Project Manager: Well j just y you get a n a normal front with it , but you can change them uh when you buy the User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: Right .
User Interface: Yes . Yes .
Marketing: Right .
Project Manager: And we should uh dispatch those kind of fronts fronts a a around the world so uh User Interface: Mm .
Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: Well you can make profit with them , and it's a way to make them trendy .
Project Manager: Well th those fifty million don't uh don't se sells itself so we have to uh make uh some extra effort like fronts uh .
Industrial Designer: Well but th but the standard front will be uh just grey or something
User Interface: Yeah alright .
Marketing: Yeah right .
User Interface: Yeah normal .
Industrial Designer: uh b a simple colour not not very flashy .
Project Manager: Yes . Yeah well it has to it h it has to fit the the te television and D_V_D_ set we are going to sell ,
User Interface: No a colour everyone accepts .
Project Manager: so if they are uh black and black black and silver we'll make them black and silver so User Interface: Mm .
Industrial Designer: Pink television sets pink remote , .
User Interface: Mm .
Marketing: Yeah yeah yeah .
User Interface: Yeah . standard .
Marketing: But people of often don't like bright colours or something .
Project Manager: .
Marketing: We have to make it grey or s or black .
User Interface: Well young people s li
Marketing: Yeah but then you can use a a front .
User Interface: Yeah yeah , yeah .
Industrial Designer: Alright .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: I must not forget my pen the next time . Project Manager: Well if if you yeah . User Interface: Project Manager: If you have a a a television room for little children and you make a if if you buy a a pink front they'll they'll love it . I think .
User Interface: Yeah .
Marketing: Yeah that's right .
Project Manager: But that's uh marketing uh research you can uh you can ask uh . Marketing: Yeah or a t Teletubby front . Yeah yeah yeah . I will investigate .
Project Manager: Yes . Well our user interface you can uh maybe uh I don't know what your specific instructions will be , but uh probably about uh the precision of the buttons and and those kind of things and what buttons will have to be on the uh remote . And you will look into the technical design and um form , I think .
Industrial Designer: Mm yeah also the the look and feel uh of the the remote's also my task , yeah .
Project Manager: Or something like that . Yeah . Yeah .

Summary: The team came up with some general desired features about their new TV remote controls,including compatibility, appearance and functions .First, they thought compatibility is of importance.Second ,they thought good looks and sizes of remote controls were two vital features .Third, buttons should be designed properly.