Industrial Designer: Marketing: Are you sure I got it all head's kinda small .
User Interface: How're we placed in terms of the Marketing: Okay . User Interface: alright .
Marketing: We're okay ?
Industrial Designer: Guess I should probably try to sit up straight .
User Interface: Project Manager: Like that ? Okay , cool .
Marketing: We're good ?
Industrial Designer: Oh , I think mine's fallen off .
User Interface: It fell That's why .
Marketing: I guess it's gonna be hard to drink coffee .
Industrial Designer: Marketing: Mm .
User Interface: Marketing: Uh okay .
User Interface: Ah .
Project Manager: Okay ? Right , so I'm just gonna start this PowerPoint real quick . Yeah , PowerPoint .
Industrial Designer: Wow .
User Interface: Marketing: Very official .
Project Manager: Yeah , well , you know ,    .
Industrial Designer: User Interface: Project Manager: Yeah I kinda like this I'm kinda getting into it . Right . Um . So just to kick off the meeting basically um so we're working now for a real reaction , this is uh so it right . Just got an agenda to set out what we're gonna try to accomplish in this particular first meeting . Um We're gonna just do a quick opening and we can hopefully all get acquainted with one another um then we're gonna start talk a little bit about tool training . Essentially that means getting used to the only thing that we haven't tried out yet , the whiteboard . Um we've got a general plan for the project how we're gonna go about accomplishing this and then just a bit of discussion close up . Um I guess you know game or something um in real life um so yeah basically I want to I'm just gonna you got of course you can discuss that , I'm thinking about um uh proposing that since we've got this weird blend of ourselves and our roles that we just don't ask , don't tell . Um so um if you say something about marketing , right , sorted , um y is
Marketing: You're just gonna believe me ,
Industrial Designer: Marketing: we'll go from there .
Project Manager: Exactly . Um I mean
Marketing: Fair enough .
Project Manager: obvi if if you guys if if at the same time if you like logically if something doesn't like if I'm like we're gonna sell a remote control that's the size of this paper book you know um you say like well that doesn't seem like such a good idea because of X_ obviously go with it . I mean we'll discuss it but I'm not gonna ask do you know that or uh yeah it seems like
Marketing: Prove it
Project Manager: yeah yeah exactly
Marketing: yeah , okay .
Project Manager: so , 'cause we're what we're sort of role playing is y g yeah you're gonna tap into your own knowledge as well um . And that's the same for your when we do introductions I mean um and you talk about your background you know have fun , you know maybe you went to um uh you know maybe i you're like in Maine you went to U_C_S_B_ but you wanna say you went to Harvard or something like that , why not , you know
Industrial Designer: Marketing: Project Manager: you can this is you know I guess we can have a little bit of fun with it . So are you guys okay with that does that seem logical ?
Industrial Designer: Oh yeah , that's fine .
User Interface: Sure .
Marketing: Works for me .
Project Manager: Sweet . Cool . So I guess that that we're totally we're making a remote control which is thrilling
Industrial Designer: Right .
Project Manager: um uh but the idea is that we can make something based on the whole corporate model I dunno if you guys had time to check the in real life I dunno if you guys uh checked the um uh the corporate website . Um we've got to make something as fashionable as possible , that's kind of the corporate strategy is we're gonna try to take ordinary stuff that nobody really thinks about and try to make it nice you know like John Lewis nice or you know if you go to Debenham's or something . So um basically we are reinventing the wheel but we wanna try to do it in a user friendly um slick sleek kind of way . Um way we're gonna go about doing that is basically at first we're gonna start on the basics . And that's where I'm gonna need you guys the User Interface Designers and the um um the other designer that I can't remember ,
Marketing: Project Manager: the the I_D_ and the U_I_D_ right um the Industrial Designer
Industrial Designer: User Interface: Marketing: Project Manager: hey right on alright ,
User Interface: Mm .
Project Manager: getting into it um
Marketing: There you go .
Project Manager: to guide me and guide us on this project 'cause you're gonna be you're g you guys are the bottom you know you're like no you can't do that you can't have you know X_ and Y_ um at the same time . And then um we'll work up from what is necessary to more like what would be good , you know like um I I think you guys probably got the same emails I did but the idea of um , yes a coffee pot needs to be able to hold coffee but it's also better if it's not like really cheap glass so that it if you touch it you hurt your hand , or something like that . Um and so we'll work up from there and um then we'll meet on and talk about it and then finally we'll incorporate as kind of the last stage you know where you guys build or tell me tell us what's possible and then you tell us what we can um hope for and what way to go take the the the take the basics and make it nicer and then ov obviously uh the U_I_D_ and the I_D_ you know you you can keep on the you know sort of at the cutting edge of how to get about maximising what is possible um to try t of sync it all up . So that's the detailed design . So it's a three stage kind of thing . Um right so for now just for th the white board um basically uh just to get used to it , I haven't tried it yet either um I'm just gonna start and um mm carry like five remotes around um and just write down I'm just gonna write down one of the names of my um desert discs you know if you if you were trapped on a desert island and you could only bring five C_D_s along with you name one of them that you could , not all five , if you wanna write all five go for it but name one of them that you could um . Oh , we skipped introductions . Nice . I'm a excellent Project Manager . Um .
Marketing: Project Manager: I'm Marty ,
Industrial Designer: User Interface: Project Manager: um I went to uni at uh U_C_ Santa Barbara and I'm here working on a P_H_D_ in psychology . Um yeah . So Marketing: I'm Sarah , I went to Michigan , and I'm here doing cultural studies and I'm the Marketing Manager or something . Marketing ,
Project Manager: Expert Marketing: yeah Expert . Expert .
Project Manager: Don't play yourself down . Expert User Interface: Marketing: Fine . That's me .
User Interface: I'm Ron . I uh once upon a time studied in Victoria and I am the User Interface Designer .
Industrial Designer: I'm Nathan , I'm from California , and I'm here doing a Masters degree in social anthropology .
Project Manager: Where did you go to uni Nathan ?
Industrial Designer: U_C_L_A_ .
Project Manager: Oh brilliant . Cool . My little brother goes there .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Okay .
Project Manager: Right so desert island discs .
Marketing: So .
Project Manager: Yeah .
Marketing: So do we have to wait for you to write it down or are you gonna tell us ?
Project Manager: Well I'll t i
Marketing: I'm waiting to know .
Project Manager: no no yeah I'm just gonna write a couple of 'em down . See I'm a big music fan I don't know if you guys are , I'm assuming everybody likes music to some lesser or greater extent
Marketing: Uh Project Manager: but there's some other options , if you're a T_V_ slut
Marketing: Fair enough .
Project Manager: like I am like Smallville terrible television show
Industrial Designer: User Interface: Project Manager: but I happen to love it ,
Marketing: Oh , Smallville .
User Interface:  Project Manager: it's rubbish but I love it .
Marketing: I went to high school with Tom Willing actually .
Project Manager: T the the main c the main character ?
Marketing: The guy . Yeah .
Project Manager: Wow . Is he a wanker ?
User Interface: Marketing: Yeah . Very much so . Hell of a soccer player but a total bastard nonetheless .
Project Manager: He looks really tall , like he's gotta be like six six .
Marketing: Yeah . He is a big guy . Yeah .
Project Manager: Yeah . Um okay so I really like Jeff Buckley . You guys heard of Jeff Buckley ?
Industrial Designer: Mm-hmm .
Marketing: Mm-hmm .
Project Manager: Um that's cool 'cause like not very many people have . Um and um oh well I might as well throw a British person in there um you can't go wrong with Radiohead .
User Interface: Project Manager: It's a r
Marketing: Good call .
Project Manager: Okay so it really works just like a pen only makes noises I think . It's kinda weird . Anyway
Marketing: Interesting .
Project Manager: yeah . Yeah , you're like press and it's .
Marketing: Project Manager: Kinda cool .
Industrial Designer: Project Manager: You'll see . Alright so um
User Interface: Project Manager: whoever wants to get up next , you can write down some telly that you watch or whatever you want .
Marketing: I guess I'll go next then .
Project Manager: Right on .
User Interface: Go for it .
Marketing: Okay . Don't wanna lose all my mikes , plugged in here . Okay . This is basically just pen practice huh ?
Project Manager: W
Marketing: Okay . Oh you're much taller than me so I'm gonna write down here . Um . Right now I'm listening to a lot of somebody nobody's ever heard of , Chris Bathgate ,
Project Manager: Mm .
Marketing: local Michigan folk singer ,
Project Manager: Nice .
Industrial Designer: Wow .
Marketing: really lame
User Interface: Marketing: and uh uh what else did I bring with me ? Probably classical , to totally geek it out ,
Project Manager: Okay yeah yeah .
Marketing: yeah I think . And my family guy D_V_D_s
Project Manager: Well yeah .
Marketing: but we don't need to write that one down .
Project Manager: Oh , family guy . Isn't h has h
Industrial Designer: Project Manager: do you watch the new season ?
Marketing: No . Are you getting it online ,
Project Manager: I think I'm gonna start downloading it
Marketing: or is it on sky ?
Project Manager: yeah .
Marketing: Yeah , that'd be nice .
User Interface: Alright . Think I'm just gonna put down one uh one C_D_ . Anybody ?
Project Manager: Mm-mm .
Industrial Designer: No .
User Interface: No ? no ?
Marketing: 'Fraid not .
User Interface: Afro beat orchestra , very cool .
Project Manager: Afro beat orchestra ? Very cool . Mm .
User Interface: Yeah .
Industrial Designer: Sounds nice .
User Interface: Fift S
Marketing: Mm .
User Interface: they like fifteen members from Brooklyn . Um and I'm hoping to go to the concert in Belgium , in Brussels in April first .
Project Manager: Wow .
Marketing: Exciting .
User Interface: Yeah . It's supposed to be in Brussels anyways .
Marketing: That'd be .
User Interface: Um thing I love about Edinburgh Marketing: Oh . I didn't even read those . Oops . I shouldn't admit that . Project Manager: That's what a PowerPoint presentation is for . It's they're designed specifically to ignore . I it's th brilliant .
Industrial Designer: Oh , wow . Marketing: Yeah .
User Interface: Marketing: It's the five by five , I can't read that much .
Project Manager: Ah yes yes yes okay I see that .
Marketing:  Yeah
Project Manager: Vomit . Yes . Marketing: oh it's so horrible .
Project Manager: Street pizza .
User Interface: Love um Project Manager: It's so brilliant . I've seen more urine in this city than ever before ,
Marketing: Oh my God .
User Interface: I just came from Glasgow
Project Manager: I mean Marketing: Seriously ?
User Interface: and I'm um happy to say that there's the there's the same quantity approximately .
Industrial Designer: There's more vomit there .
User Interface: Um .
Project Manager: It's so minging .
User Interface: I w
Marketing: It really is Project Manager: Uh .
User Interface: Does uh yeah .
Industrial Designer: Alright . Yep .
User Interface: Ready ? Minging ? Nice .
Marketing: Yeah .
Project Manager: I'm going local . Going local .
Marketing: Slide it in there . Yeah .
Project Manager: I have to be here for three years so I might as well get the terminology right .
Marketing: Yeah fair enough . I've already got more than I can keep track of . And I'm gonna go home next week and everyone's gonna be like oh my God you're turning into one of those people ,
Project Manager: Oh , have you been home yet ?
User Interface: Project Manager: They'll be like , say something British ,
Marketing: no .
Project Manager: and you're like oh shut up family . Marketing: I know . I know .
User Interface: Uh-huh .
Industrial Designer: Um Marketing: Oh it should be interesting .
Industrial Designer: Let's see .
Marketing: Wait until I tell them I'm not coming back .
Project Manager: Right
User Interface: Marketing: They're gonna love that one .
Project Manager: you s you're gonna stay here ?
Marketing: Probably .
Project Manager: Wow .
Marketing: Or at least get a work visa for a while and then decide .
User Interface: Nice .
Project Manager: Bad religion ?
Marketing: 'Cause Industrial Designer: Yeah , that's the music I grew up listening to .
Marketing: nice .
Project Manager: Yeah yeah , yeah .
Marketing: Of course .
User Interface: Industrial Designer: And so there Marketing: Oh , now I can think of so many other ones .
Project Manager: Well yeah that's why Marketing: That's how it works .
Project Manager: yeah .
Industrial Designer: Something I miss about my hometown .
Project Manager: I miss coffee .
Industrial Designer: Burritos
Marketing: Mm . Project Manager: Burritos .
User Interface: Nice .
Industrial Designer: that cost less than eight Pounds . Marketing: Oh Project Manager: Oh yeah two two bucks .
Marketing: Any thing that are like free .
Project Manager: Where are you from in California by the way ?
User Interface: Industrial Designer: I grew up in San Diego ,
Project Manager: Did you really ? What part ?
Industrial Designer: but yeah um La Jolla , P_B_ .
Project Manager: Yeah I'm from San Diego as well . Yeah oh man .
Marketing: Nice . Industrial Designer: But really uh I last lived in San Francisco , I haven't lived in Cali well I haven't lived in southern California since I was eighteen .
Project Manager: Going to s like North Carol I'm sorry you you just can't get a better burrito than what's available in the s in San Diego .
Industrial Designer: It's different . 'Cause in San Diego th the tortillas are cooked on the grill and in northern California they steam them .
Marketing: It must make all the difference . Industrial Designer: Yeah , it really does .
Project Manager: Well it's it's i there's other things too there's you just can't place it
Marketing: Ah .
Project Manager: like I when I went to school in the U_ in Santa Barbara which is central California the Mexican food is okay , it's just not good like and yeah it's like two bucks ,
Industrial Designer: Mm .
Project Manager: like literally two bucks for this massive I miss
Marketing: Right .
Project Manager: yeah good call on that .
Industrial Designer: Yeah . Where you from in San Diego ?
Marketing: Mm .
Project Manager: Um just literally just metropolitan San Diego , I live like five minutes from the zoo . So
Industrial Designer: Okay .
Project Manager: North Park actually if you want to get real specific .
Industrial Designer: Yeah , my grandparents lived on um thirty second .
Project Manager: Yep .
Industrial Designer: Close t uh do you know where Clare de Lune coffee shop is ,
Project Manager: Yes . On university ,
Industrial Designer: and
Project Manager: yeah .
Industrial Designer: Cafe Forte Project Manager: Yeah it's actually like literally half a mile from my house .
Industrial Designer: Cool .
Project Manager: Yeah , pretty cool . Small world as we were discussing before .
Industrial Designer: Yeah .