okay good morning everybody i am glad you could all come i am really excited to start this team i am just going to have a little powerpoint presentation for us for our kick off meeting my name is rose lindgren i i will be the project manager our agenda today is we are going to do a little opening and then i am going to talk a little bit about the project then we will move into acquaintance such as getting to know each other a little bit including a tool training exercise and then we will move into the project plan do a little discussion and close since we only have 25 minutes 1st of all our project aim we are creating a new remote control which we have 3 goals about it needs to be original trendy and user friendly i am hoping that we can all work together to achieve all 3 of those so we are going to divide us up into 3 compa 3 parts 1st the functional design which will be 1st we will do individual work come into a meeting the conceptional design individual work and a meeting and then the detailed design individual work and a meeting so that we will each be doing our own ideas and then coming together and collaborating okay we are going to get to know each other a little bit so what we are going to do is start off with let us start off with amina alima sorry alima alima we are going to do a little tool training so we are going to work with that whiteboard behind you introduce yourself say one thing about yourself and then draw your favorite animal and tell us about it okay i do not know which one of these i have to bring with me probably both right so i am supposed to draw my favorite animal i have no drawing skills whatsoever but let us see introduce myself my name is alima bucciantini i am from the state of maine in the us i am doing nationalism studies blah blah blah and i have no artistic talents how do you spell your name a l i m a thanks 0 and i guess i am the industrial designer on this project so let us see if i can get here i will draw a little turtle for you all not necessarily cause it is my absolute favorite animal but just that i think they are drawable and you have the pretty little shell going on some little eyes happy there you go that is a turtle yes so what are your favorite characteristics i i like the whole having a shell thing it is quite cool carry your home around where you go quite decorative little animals they can swim they can they are very adaptable they carry everything they need with them and they are easy to draw excellent shall we just go around the table okay well my name is iain and i am the user interface designer for the project and i will try and draw my favorite animal no you can erase the turtle it is alright i will i should leave that one on there should not i before i callously rub it off might be nice to have them all up there at same time i am not going to draw it quite to scale is that at least identifiable snake well it is a whale yes em well snake it is w thanks 0 my god it is better than what i am going to be able to do and yeah the reason i like whales is cause they are well 1st of all they are quite intelligent and also they are they are kind of mysterious like we do not really know much about them or or understand how they work how they form groups and i just find them interesting animals take my contraptions with me alright i am jessy i am from around d c ish sort of in the u s and we are going to keep the deep sea sort of theme going on animal do not really know how to draw this just where can i maybe if i do the water but how sort of give an idea i have no idea how one would explain this maybe with some whiskers briefly it is supposed to be a seal you can imagine it in the water i like them because they are like playful and silly sort of have a good time not going to try and pretend like i can get any better than that kay kay i am rose and i am project manager from california s 0 a cat it is definitely significantly harder once you are doing it yeah it is actually a coyote let us see right that is impressive let us see let us give it a little bit of a snout i do not know some teeth that is yeah that is pretty impressive cool 0 dear yes i live i live right across the street from an open space in california we have coyotes howl all the time so i really enjoy their their singing you they are really beautiful animals okay moving on to slightly more serious stuff we are going to talk about project finances we have a couple we would like to sell it for about €25 with the profit aim of €15000000 from our sales and because this is such this is for television it is a we have a market range of internet like it is an international market range we do not have to worry about specifics in order to make a profit of this magnitude we need to be able to produce each one at a maximum of €1250 so we are selling it for twice what we would like to produce it for okay just to generate a little bit of discussion about the project i could i would like to hear about your experiences using ro remote controls your 1st ideas about creating a new r remote control what would be the best like you what are the features that you really like what are the features that you do not like etcetera so i hate when there is like 4 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 do not know now they keep combining all different remotes together and i do not know if i necessarily like that cause i feel like you end up with multimedia overload i just want to watch the t v always gets lost some sort of like device to help you find it i have used i have used remote controls for things like t v and the c d player and video recorder and i i guess they are they are pretty neat neat little tools you do not have to get up and walk across the room to change a channel so especially if you are someone really lazy like me they they are pretty nice i find them they can be a bit annoying especially like you know if i am watching t v i have have to have 3 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 and also they tend to they tend to be a bit confusing they have got too many buttons on them too too sort of too sort of complicated when all i really want to do is switch on and off change the channel change the volume yeah i agree with having too many remotes around my dad has a whole drawer at home of remotes for various things and i do not know how to work half of them what is important for me i guess is that it is easy to use and that there is not too many buttons they are not too small you know you know you need to n to know what you are doing and one thing i particularly like is if you are not sort of moving it around to get it to work with the infra red yeah yeah i think there is a way around that 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 so i it is just simpler just to just turn around the t v itself and i think that is if we are going to make a remote control it should actually work for what it is doing so what about like batteries and things like that like are there some remotes that don do not require like batteries or do all remotes require batteries i would imagine all of them i know but we could but it is possible we could use like a lithium battery that would last a lot longer than like double a s yeah something that does not like tho those are the batteries that are used in a lot of m p 3 players now and that kind of thing okay it seems we have a little bit of a conflict over to combining all the remotes cont together versus having f 5 different remotes so like you said you do not like having all the buttons on one on one remote and yet you do not want to have 5 remotes so how do we work with that yeah could we get something that just has no does not have all the buttons that you need to program the video recorder or program s other things that i am not very coherent about but that just has your major buttons for that work for everything you know volume control on off channel changing and maybe that spatially divides it so it is like if you are looki if you are trying to get the t v on that is you know like the top thing on the remote i dunno if d be vertical or horizontal in terms of how we are going to make it yeah but if it is like all the t v stuff was here then all the v c r stuff was here all the whatever else we have programmed into it it is all just in its separate place and not like all the on buttons together n that way yeah cause then you like i do not even know what i am turning on yeah and if if you would save the more complicated functions maybe for separate remotes that you would not need to use every day 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 because that is one thing that remotes tend to have buttons that the t v s no longer have as well yeah so like you have to have them somewhere cause you are going to m need those special functions occasionally yeah right but not necessarily on the m the normal remote can i ask are we designing a remote control for a television only and if if this device is just to be used for the television good question would we even technically be possible to include video recorder functions on it i do not know that yet or should we just stick to just stick to having television television related buttons on it it is a good question i will look into that if i can i think it is just t v i mean if it if we are taking it just new product a new television remote control that is not like does not say yeah you know things might be more advanced than that so we should maybe we should assume that i t it is just a television that we are wanting to control well i mean i suppose it would be nice to have playing and record and stop buttons on it for the video recorder as well i i do not know if that works technologically or not yes i guess we have to define what what we are aiming for if it is just a television then that it is a bit simpler cause there is less buttons that would even need to be on it yeah it is an idea with the buttons being really large yeah if you have older people or people like me that are not very co ordinated hand eye it is really quite important that you are not pressing a small like teeny mobiles phone size buttons if we can help it yeah okay kay sounds like we have had a good little discussion for our 1st ideas mind if we move on ps okay kay now our next meeting starts in 30 minutes i believe we have actually been only working on this this one for about 20 so we can continue discussing more new ideas if you would like but this is just a breakdown of what we will be doing individually the industrial design alima will be doing the working design yeah the user interface designer that is for technical functions i guess like keeping in mind the buttons thing the size of the buttons user requirements so you will be hearing about different trends about different things that people need i guess kind of the same discussion that we have been having we will get from the actual consum s consumers kay and you will get specific instructions sent by your personal coach i realized in this past one we we did not have much we just wanted to get a little brain storming done so very exited to see all your animals and how what wonderful artists we all are any questions what we are going to be discussing at the next meeting do we know that i have not gotten an agenda yet i will put that together i am sure as we will each get our own instruction and then because what we going to do is 1st our individual actions and then we will come back together right yep so i am sure we will all have more concrete things to contribute next time kay yep i am sure we will be busy kay i will type up mi minutes and probably email those out to all of you okay just including all the things that we talked about can you e mail your slides as well is that possible yes i yes i think i can cool i will just attach it to an email and you are you are number 234 i am 2 i am 4 is that correct okay alright excellent it was lovely meeting you all kay just make sure you keep checking the company web site and the emails kay let me see if i can do that right now
i am okay good morning everybody i am glad you could all come i am really excited to start this team i am just going to have a little powerpoint presentation for us for our kickoff meeting my name is rose lindgren and i will be the project manager our agenda today is we are going to do a little opening and then i am going to talk a little bit about the project then we will move into acquaintance just getting to know each other a little bit including a tool training exercise and then we will move into the project plan do a little discussion and then we will move into the project plan do a little discussion and closed since we only have 25 minutes 1st of all our project aim we are creating a new remote control which we have 3 goals about it needs to be original trendy and user friendly i am hoping that we can all work together to achieve all 3 of those so we are going to divide this up into 3 parts 1st the functional design which will be 1st we will do individual work come into a meeting the conceptual design individual work in a meeting and then the detailed design individual work and a meeting so that we will each be doing our own ideas and then coming together and collaborating okay we are going to get to know each other a little bit so what we are going to do is start off with let us start off with amina alima sorry alima we are going to do a little tool training so we are going to work with that whiteboard behind you introduce yourself say one thing about yourself and then draw your favorite animal and tell us about it okay i do not know which one of these i have to bring with me probably both right so i am supposed to draw my favorite animal i have no drawing skills whatsoever but let us see introduce myself my name is alima bucintini i am from the state of maine in the u s i am doing nationalism studies blah blah blah and i have no artistic talent how do you spell your name a l i m a thanks 0 and i guess i am the industrial designer on this project so let us see if i can get here i will draw a little turtle for you all not necessarily because it is my absolute favorite animal but just that i think they are you have a pretty little shell going on some little eyes happy there you go it is a turtle so what are your favorite characteristics i like the whole having a shell thing it is quite cool carry your home around where you go quite decorative little animals they can swim they can they are very adaptable they carry everything they need with them and they are easy to draw excellent so we just go around the table okay well my name is ian i am using the user in space to learn for the budget and i am trying to one like i know i should leave that one on no you can erase the turtle it is all right it might be nice to have them all up there at the same time i am not going to draw it quite at this game is that at least an idea of where else it is aware it is a way 0 my god so is what i am in a real yeah the reason i like wales is because they are well they are quite intelligent and also they are kind of mysterious like you do not really know much about them or understand how they work how they are doing good it is quite a bit interesting element yeah come on contraptions with me all right i am jesse i am from around d c ish sort of in the us and we are going to keep this and we are going to keep the deep sea sort of theme going on are animals i do not really know how to draw this i just sort of going on   maybe i do the water will help sort of give an idea i have no idea how one would explain this explain this maybe some whiskers basically it is supposed to be a seal you can imagine it in the water i like them because they are like playful and silly sort of have a good time i am not going to try to pretend like it can get any better than that okay okay i am rose and i am project manager i am from california   it is definitely it is actually a coyote let us see it is definitely a little bit of a snout i do not know some teeth yeah that is pretty impressive 0 dear yes i live right across the street from an open space in california now we have coyotes all the time so i really enjoy their singing and they are really beautiful animals okay moving on to slightly more serious stuff we are going to talk about project finances we have a couple we would like to sell it for about €25 with a profit aim of €50000000 from all our sales and because this is such this is for television we have a market range of like it is an international market range we do not have to worry about specifics in order to make a profit of this magnitude we need to be able to produce each one at a maximum of €1250 so we are selling it for twice what we would like to produce it for okay just to generate a little bit of discussion about the project i would like to hear about your experiences using remote controls your 1st idea is about creating a new remote control what would be the best what are the features that you really like what are the features that you do not like like et cetera i hate when there is 4 different buttons and you have to press to actually turn on the tv like you have to do one for the power of the tv and then like another one to get the actual screen on and something else to get it all going i do not know now they keep combining all different remotes together and i do not know if i necessarily like that because i feel like you end up like multimedia overload i just want to watch the tv always gets lost some sort of like device to help you find it i have used remote controls as a tv and the cd player and the video in the corner and i guess they are definitely more little tools so we do not have to get up and walk across the media channel especially if you are a single really lazy like me but i find that they can be a bit annoying especially like when i watch a tv i have to have the set of the controls one for the tv one for the digital box one for the video recording as well and also they tend to be a bit confusing they have got too many buttons on them it is too sort of complicated when all i really want to do is all i really want to do is switch on and off change the channel change the volume yeah i agree with having too many remotes around my dad has a whole drawer at home of remotes for various things and i do not know how to work half of them what is important for me i guess is that it is easy to use and that there is not too many buttons they are not too small you do not need to know what you are doing and one thing i particularly like is if you are not sort of moving it around to get it to work with the infrared yeah i think there is a way around that but i know in my residence right now the television you sort of have to walk all around the room to get it to turn on so it is just simpler just to just turn around the tv itself and i think that is if you are going to make a remote control it should actually work for what do we it is about like batteries and things like that are there some remotes that do not require batteries or do all remotes require batteries i would imagine all of them but we could but it is also we could use like a lithium battery that would last a lot longer than like double a is like those are the batteries that are used in a lot of mp 3 players now and that kind of thing okay it seems we have a little bit of a conflict over combining all the remotes together versus having 5 different remotes so like you said you do not like having all the buttons on one remote and yet you do not want to have 5 remotes so how do we work with that could we get something that just has it does not have all the buttons that you need to program the video recorder or programs other things that i am not very coherent about but that just has your major buttons that work for everything you know volume control on off channel changing and maybe that spatially divides it so it is like if you are looking if you are trying to get the tv on that is you know like the top thing on the remote i do not know if it would be vertical or horizontal in terms of how we are going to make it but if it is like all the tv stuff is here then all the vcr stuff is here all the whatever else you have programmed into it it is all just in its separate place and not like all the on buttons together because then you are like i do not even know what i am turning on yeah and if you would save the more complicated functions maybe for separate remotes that you would not need to use every day okay so maybe have like one remote that has the main functions on off channel changing volume and another remote with all the special things because that is one thing that remotes tend to have buttons that the tvs no longer have as well so like you have to have them somewhere because you are going to need those special functions occasionally but not necessarily on the normal remote can i ask are we designing a remote control for television only good question and if this device is just to be used for the television would we even technically be possible to do i do not know that yet i think to television television that is a good question i will look into it i think it is just tv i mean if it if we are taking it just for what it said new product and new television remote control it is not like it does not say you know things might be more advanced than that so we should maybe we should assume that it is just the television that they want it to think of it however i mean i suppose it would be nice to have playing and recording stuff like and run it from video recording i do not know if that works technologically or not so i guess we have to define what we are aiming for if it is just a television then that is a bit simpler have been simpler because there is less buttons that would even need to be on it yeah i see an idea of the buttons being visible and large if you have older people or people like me that are not very coordinated hand eye it is really quite important that you are not pressing a small teeny mobile phone size buttons if we can help it okay sounds like we have had a good little discussion for our 1st ideas mind if we move on okay okay now our next meeting starts in 30 minutes i believe we have actually been only working on this one for about 20 so we can continue discussing more new ideas if you would like but this is just a breakdown of what we will be doing individually the industrial design aleema we will be doing the working design user interface designer that is for you technical functions i guess like keeping in mind the buttons thing the buttons thing the size of the buttons user requirements so you will be hearing about different trends about different things that people need i guess kind of the same discussion that we have been having will get from actual consumers and you will get specific instructions sent by your personal coach i realized in this past when we did not have much we just wanted to get a little brainstorming done so very excited to see all your animals and how what wonderful artists we all are any questions i have not gotten an agenda yet i will put that together i am sure as we will each get our own instructions because what we are going to do is 1st our individual actions and then we will come back together sure i will have more concrete things to contribute next time i am sure we will be busy okay i will type up minutes and probably email those out to all of you just including all the things that we talked about yes i think i can i will just attach it to you and you are number 234 is that correct okay all right it was lovely meeting you all to keep checking the company website and the emails