okay we all all set right well this is the final detailed design meeting we are going to discuss the look and feel design the user interface design and we are going to evaluate the product and the end result of this meeting has to be a decision on the details of this remote control like absolute final decision and then i am going to have to specify the final design in the final report so just from from last time to recap we said we were going to have a snowman shaped remote control with no l c d display no need for talk back it was hopefully going to be kinetic power and battery with rubber buttons maybe backlighting the buttons with some internal l e d s to shine through the casing hopefully a jog dial and incorporating the slogan somewhere as well anything i have missed no okay so if you want to present your prototype go ahead 0 this is it ninja homer made in japan there are a few changes we have made well look at the expense sheet okay and it turned to be quite a lot expensive to have open up and have lots of buttons and stuff inside so instead we have this is going to be an l c d screen just a a very very basic one very small with access to the menu through the the scroll wheel and confirm button kay apart from that it is just pretty much the same as we discussed last time and there is not d it does not open up to the advanced functions so the advanced functions are still hidden from you but they are hidden in the sense that they are not in use where are they they are in the l c d panel and the jog dial ah right okay cause great so w what kind of thing is going to be the l c d panel just displays functionally what you are doing if you are using an advanced function right like c brightness contrast whatever it will just say you know it is like it only has 4 columns right okay it is a very simple l c d like whereas many the minimum amount we need that the user will automatically know like this is brightness or this is contrast right right kay okay cool it might even be one a bit more complex l c d panel with pictures like maybe the sun or the okay you know the the symbols of the various functions and what is this here 0 right okay cool that is a number pad okay so the number pad is kay great where are we going to have the slogan they are al along this yeah you know just like right inside there okay cool you have this space here and then you have this thing on the side as well or at the bottom okay cause slogans are usually quite small right they are not like huge so they are s yep say a button is about say a button is about this size right so you would still have plenty of space for a slogan say even for that okay looks good yep so if this is not to scale what kind of dimensions are you thinking about here well we want the other buttons to be big enough to push easily with a finger so we reckon maybe that will be about the same size as the palm of your hand okay yep so that would be about a centimeter for a button so 123 4 centimeters plus maybe half 05 about 9 in total 678 about yeah 9 total 678910 so we are talking about 10 centimeters that sounds good yeah that would be good yep so 10 centimeters in height 910 yep okay that would be good in fact a pen is about 10 centimeters usually so that would be that sounds like a really good size if you see it there yeah that is great and it is very bright as well so okay is it possible i am just going to bring up the idea of colors is these are these the colors that of production or is this just what we had available well i am we are going to have again the the sort of the foggy yellow from last time that lit up when you pushed the button right okay so just could you just list all the things that it does s so i can write them in the report but this button because it is red it is sort of very prominent we are going to use it as it can be the power button if you hold it for maybe 2 seconds it will send a stand by signal excuse me apart from that it is going to be used as a confirm button for the l c d screen and you use this as a jog dial sure okay okay so that is like an okay button right 0 we have discussed how h high it is but how wide is it i do not know okay how high is it no as in the height but what about the width yeah did not put 5 centimeters 00 like depth of the actual thing do we need 5 i do not think 5 is be about th 35 okay something by there 0 is this k to get an idea of scale from your from your thing there okay yeah yeah sure so you can power on and off what else can you do 35 you can skip straight to a channel using these buttons okay were going to have the volume control here but because we have got the the l c d and the jog dial we just thought we would use that as the volume okay jog dial for volume and what else do you do with the jog dial you can use it for more advanced functions like contrast color and contrast brightness yeah and anything else yeah just whatever else we wanted to include as the advanced functions we did not actually go through and specify the well of the designers what are they what can a t v do okay things like brightness contrast maybe tuning the channels huh okay channel tuning that is a good one what else the various inputs are you having a v c r are you having you know which input do you have okay auxiliary inputs probably color or sharpness yep color sharpness sharpness a lot of these things will have to be free and open for users to define them okay what about sound settings d can you change any of those at all audio audio we have like your basic y your base your mid range your high range the the balance yep left right balance maybe even pre programmed sound modes like the user could determine like a series of sound modes okay and then what could happen would be when you click on that then it would go to that setting okay is there anything else at all it can do kay yeah that cause that is that is fine just need to know so i can write it down okay right i g i guess that is it so we can now we can now have a little look at the the excel sheet and price listing and see if we need to if we need to rethink anything at all so for this 1st part here power wise have we got battery the battery do we have kinetic as well no no okay just battery we need an and that is because of cost restraints is it yep yeah okay what about the electronics here yeah advanced chip we need an advanced chip i think yep advanced chip let me just confirm that yes i think so yep okay the case what does it mean by single and double do you know i think single would just be sort of one sort of oval whereas double is this sort of thing so we want double curved yeah yep okay plastic is there any rubber at all in the buttons or any i think we are going to have to skip the rubber okay and we wanted special colors did not we yep so i will have to put that 0 no wait we ho how many colors have we got there for the case itself one color it is one special color just one color okay cause the case unit itself the rest of our components go on top of it okay so interface wise is it this 3rd option we have the 2 of them there yes one and the l c display okay and then buttons we have what 2 colors how many we have got some push buttons as well or even clear we have got push buttons as well like 0 wait so push button and integrated scroll wheel push okay kay so i reckon we have got one button for this thing cause it is just one big sheet of rubber huh i am not sure if that counts but okay okay let us just be safe and put like say 4 buttons for that one okay okay and maybe a special color for the buttons so maybe 4 again 4 you can see we are we are all very far beyond the so w why are we arriving at the number 4 where does the number 4 come from cause that is one button by its the complexity of 12 buttons okay right so we are writing down 4 so we are just estimating that yeah it would be less okay how about these are we wanting them in no they are just is everything going to be plastic no yep yep okay so we are w w quite far over now we are going to something is going to have to go we are at 168 and how how are we going to achieve this high end product if well we h something has to go to the tune of 2 point t €3 we only have very sparse so let me see what are we i mean 0 yes sorry 43 23 43 no my maths is all out well we could take out ones by making it single curved just fill in those bits yeah and then where is the how much would that save us how much would that save us that will only save you one that is one one the other thing could be that you could take away the l c d panel and the advanced chip together because when you do something on the t v the t v responds and reacts as well so the user could be looking at the t v and pushing his thing so we may not need to so when we scroll we need just some way to get the t v to respond that is fair enough yeah okay so which i think is a technically doable thing so so w what is our reviewed suggestion take away the l c display yep and the advanced chip goes away as well to be replaced with a regular chip regular chip yep okay so what that means is that and so we have got 3 to get rid of and we ha where are the 4 the 4 push buttons are where exactly now the 12 buttons that you see there 12 buttons that is one piece of rubber but it is going to have 12 button things underneath so yeah functionally you are going to have to intercept so 4 is a good estimate for do you think yeah so you can not actually cut it is like 3 times the number of buttons 4812 like is is that one big button or is it 12 buttons how can it be something in between it it needs to be more than one big button because if you open up your phone underneath there is actually one button underneath it is just that the panel itself is a single panel okay well we have 3 to get rid of somewhere we just report that it has to be over budget or the colors you could take away s colors for th for the buttons no can do yeah we could just go with yeah w normal colored buttons well do you want color differentiation here no that is not the button we are talking about 0 yeah sorry yeah then that is the buttons only refer to the pad so right so should we take that off ah hey it is back to the original that is it so then these just become normal colored buttons so that might be some some way of cutting the cost okay ach that is a shame right so take away that completely ah and now we are under budget so we do have 5 to play with if we wanted so i reckon how about with embossing the logo is not that going to cost us some money does not say so yeah that is a freebie reckon that probably counts as a special form for the buttons yeah yeah that is a good idea just one does that mean that one button has a special form or i think there is just one button so handy yeah okay well well there we go so i am just going to have to redraw this now so we are not going to have the l c d anymore and we will just going to have an on t on the t v it will show you what you are doing which i think is fair enough and so this is going to be one big thing here was the goal in your in your prototype design that it be as low profile as possible what do you mean by profile yeah sort of flat as possible no you see i envision it as being quite deep sort of deep enough to be comfy to hold in your hands rather than being wide and flat yeah yeah that is what i was thinking to sure okay we did not have enough play doh to make it 3 d yeah alright yeah fair enough okay just thought i would ask so there is one more dimension to the thing which we need to to add and you might want to add in the report length width and height right okay yeah so just to well to be thorough then width wise we are looking at about what 3 centimeters or something yeah okay and then so height wise how how tall do you envisage it being about that big yeah it works yeah 2 about 2 centimeters okay 2 is not very high at all though maybe a bit higher this is about this is about 2 slightly more than 2 so yeah see about that thick okay maybe closer to 3 even or 25 ach that is yeah okay okay we will s we will say 25 okay so we have it within cost anyway so yeah project evaluation is this point right okay so can we close that this is what it is the final spec that it is going to be someone is going to have to yeah that is fine that is fine it is probably just i dunno if it is worth getting into but just in in that we want this to be stylish should we think a little bit more out of the box in terms of a button grid because i have seen there is lots of devices out there that that instead of taking your standard 99 square grid and they have it sort of stylized or in different concept that that i think that is something that is very hard to catch so you you restrict the number of people who want to try something yeah sure okay the the look and the color is something which is cool yeah alright but i think that there is also that factor of if it is too unfamiliar then because when you put it on the shelf okay sure what about button shape square buttons yeah button shape might be a good idea to change rather than rather than positioning okay yeah cause i think positioning is we are kinda engrained into the the telephone kind of sure yeah yeah okay pad right so at this point we let me see discuss how satisfied we all are with with these 4 points with the room for creativity in the project and leadership and teamwork and the stuff we had around us i guess kay let me see do you want me to d do you want me to do my design evaluation last yeah i was not really sure what that was maybe we should do the design evaluation 1st or yeah yeah go for that 1st evaluation i was not entirely sure what who was supposed to be doing that but y you go for it okay sure alright so the way this works i am going to need to plug into powerpoint i will try and do it as quick as possible okay okay this is i will just go over your head if that is okay yeah i do not think you need the power so what is that no that is okay that is okay i do not need the powerpoint no the power cord itself 0 course yeah that is true yeah so then you have a bit more freedom to let me get that a bit more okay so what this is is a set up for us to use a kind of a like a you you still have your blue fingers is it you killed a monster the idea is that i have set up i have reviewed all of the the points of discussion from the beginning and used that as a criteria of evaluation for the for the current design th or the plan and so we can review that i think it is going to end up being sort of elementary because we are sort we are in n we are not going to probably use it to change anything but does not seem like it is going does it 0 there it is yeah okay great and i am going to write up our results on the board so this will be a way for us to go through and decide if we are sort of review where we stand with it okay so so to sort of b bring together 2 things sort of design goals and also the market research that we had when we rate this one is v high in in succeeding or fitting to our original aim and 7 is low okay kay so these i these i th are the and we have been asked to to collectively rate this so what we can do is try and just y work on a consensus system so we just come to an agreement okay okay so the 1st one stylish look and feel i rate that pretty highly well yeah i mean compared to most remote controls you see that is pretty good yeah yeah i dunno like a 6 or something yeah yeah me my only reservation with it was that we basically went with yellow because it is the company is color what does anybody else think and i do not know if yellow is going to really be a hit but okay i am seeing 5 then what do you guys think i would say 5 or 6 okay david yep i am fine with that okay let us go with 5 then okay fi 0 just actually the opposite it is one to 7 right the so it meant 3 okay 0 yes sorry then then i would say 2 or 3 wait what is the scale one to 7 right one is high ish is not it yeah yeah one is high ah okay so yeah 2 or 3 kay okay it is upside down let us go with 25 then okay control high tech innovation well it has the wee jog dial but we had to remove yeah so we have had to remove a few of our features we wanted but jog dial is good i would go with 3 or 4 maybe 3 say it is more 83 medium but going towards a little bit higher than medium kind of thing okay 3 yeah about 3 okay yep okay style reflects a fruit inspired color design i should not have said color but just lemon well that is kind of okay the blue the blue colors and do not re do not actually represent the color yeah sorta except for the b the the red button they because for want of a yeah okay but the yellow i mean it could be a lemon yellow color could not it right yeah could be yeah yeah the the yellow is more representative of the color but the button itself the blue can be anything else okay yeah okay so we will go 2 yeah okay and design is simple to use simple in features well yeah i mean it is really basic looking is not it f f yeah f fairly basic you guys think i mean i would give that nearly a one yeah one yep that is fine yeah one okay soft and spongy have we achieved that we have used mostly plastic in the end so it is going to be quite a bit of a compromise for price yeah i think it is about 5 5 5 yeah well we have to use plastic so it is probably going to be that is really low well yeah i suppose kay that is yeah company logo could we have used an entirely rubber frame to it was that an option i think i would probably increase the cost i think it will be cost prohibitive yeah we have only got like what ¢10 left so it would cost more than plastic okay logo we have got it in there have not we yep yep going to have that on the side are not we like there or something huh and it is within budget yep it is is not it yeah okay so we can say then that out of a possible or what would be our goal here out of 49 i guess yeah out of 49 with with 0 being the highest we are at 27810155 is pretty good so it is pretty good translates to something like about approximately 72% efficacy of our original goal right yeah i think cause if you turn that into a 100 it would be about twice that about 31 about 31 and then invert that it is so yeah ab well yeah about 6970% yeah 0 right about 70 yeah 70% it is pretty good okay good that was just a little formality for us to go through okay yep £0 pen sorry alright nobody saw it honestly no the cameras did is that you all have all finished or yeah that is that is me i did have one other one other frame i thought i mean i i d not knowing how we would deal with this information i thought okay in theory this kind of a process would be about refining our design revisiting our original goals huh it is not something i need to p push through but i thought should we thinking more about the dimensions sort of like more of a 3 dimensional shapes as well as opposed to just that flat could our design involve a series of colors so that it is more of like a line where we have like sort of the yep i do not know like the harvest line or the vibrant i dunno the whatever just some theme and then we have different tones lime green lemon okay it is just discussion i mean obviously we can just abandon this it is fine i am just thinking about what we originally set out to do yep so there right that is all okay great are you submitting the the evaluation criteria or am i i do not know what your instructions have been i think to record it and i have not been asked to submit it yet yeah okay just wondering if i need to include it in the minutes because if you are submitting it anyway then okay great i will yeah it keeps getting too big cool right well next up then because we have done finance is the project evaluation kay i am i am listening i am just trying to incorporate the logo into the the thing so i am playing with the play doh as well 0 right okay just in case you are wondering why is he still playing with the play doh huh just about right l e g 0 lego my leg right okay well do you want to just individually say what you think about about these 4 points and or not those 4 points my 4 points sorry forgotten that you got a different yep i like those printer cables that just have the 2 little butterfly clips like that 0 yeah they are good are not they yeah it is really quick right okay yeah here we are to use as a note we will do this alphabetically do you want to start andrew sure so what is it you are asking of me now i do not know just your opinion on those 4 those 4 points really and how we used them or sort of our work on setting this up yeah yeah well is it okay i will just go through your system then the the room is fairly institutional but the main thing is i think our use of this space is more just to report on things as opposed to be creative and constructive and it would probably help to have l sort of a cumulative effect of we have ideas and we come back and then the ideas are still in discussion you know as in other words this this room is sort of a center point of creativity huh whereas in reality as we have gone through this it is not really the center point of creativity it is more just a well d do you feel though that that you were able to have quite a lot of creative input into the thing d debating yeah yeah but that is just the thing is the quest in terms of the the 1st point there the room it feels as though the creativity goes on when we leave and then we come here and then we kind of put out our ideas and then you know but i do not i do not think it means the room as in this room i think it means like you know 00 right right 0 right okay room for creativ 0 right i just looked up and saw okay whiteboard digital pens the room yeah room 0 yeah no of course yeah well i dunno do you th i think it means i think it means did you feel you were able to give creative input so sorry huh yeah yeah i th okay on th yeah dif answering the question in those terms i would say that actually there is sort of a tease of creativity because we are asked to work through this but actually the guidelines are fairly contrived in terms of okay fashion trends say fruit and vegetable color scheme but then i then we are told okay use the co company company colors so what do we do we are told okay think in terms of style and look and feel and technology but build something for £125 okay so actually the creativity was more more of like a a f sort of a f formality then an actual you feel like you are caged within whatever y it is like a balloon in a cage it can only go so big and not hit the side okay yeah within the constraints the yeah yeah yeah the constraints do come in very fast okay do you know what actually let us take each and everybody discuss it i think so yeah yeah so still on the topic of room for creativity next up is craig i agree with his point it is it is quite a lot of fun t to go and then you have sort of hit the end then go right got to cut everything out cause we do not have enough money yeah yeah yep i think another point is that the meetings are more brainstorming sessions than meetings so time is also a very s strong factor and structure yeah yeah yeah because for a brainstorming meeting you want a structure that allows you to allows ideas to get tossed to be evaluated and to be reviewed and to get feedback and come back yeah yeah and i guess that point about the room not being r very friendly to that i think that is a very big thing yeah and i think the fact that we are wearing these things restricts i feel it cause i wear m my glasses yeah sure yeah right and that but that irritates me right it it it does actually you know affect how w whether you feel comfortable to communicate yeah new creativity i feel like i am hiding behind the equipment rather than the equipment is helping me and you know yep right so you think a more relaxed atmosphere would be more kind of conducive to creative thought or not not so much an atmosphere the atmosphere is very relaxed but the the gear yeah you know that creates boundaries to that and and the time the time given also restricts yeah but actual environment okay okay very good what about leadership i do not know if that means like if i did a good job or something i do not really know yeah well well i mean my sense on that is sort of what kind of guidance and direction encouragement from like your personal coach person and stuff like that do you think maybe yeah from and you as well i think just sort of acting as team leader okay yeah i think i think it is i think it is good excuse me i mean my personal views on on leadership is that effective effective leadership sort of gives people a certain room for freedom and delegation but then to come back with something that they take great ownership and you know innovative thought with in in reality i think here the the different elements of leadership such as the the original b briefing and then the personal coach and the and then you know having having you with your the meeting agenda is actually quite a quite a quite a con confining framework to work within and so it is leadership almost to the point of sort of disempowering the the the team member so huh okay but it is not bad leadership it is just sort of s fairly strong you know it turns it turns the individual into more of like a sort of a predetermined mechanism as opposed to a sort of a free so you think maybe a little too controlling or yeah 0 yeah without without a doubt i think controlling is not the right word i think the interactions are very structured yeah maybe not co confining i think structure is probably what you are saying that each individual is structured to one particular task and one parti rather than controlling yeah yeah yeah okay i do not think there is a sense of control cause all the decisions have been made in terms of a like a consensus right we go around and we think about it but that you know process actually says you have to do it in a certain way huh okay it does not tell you you know some ways that you might want to be a bit more creative in terms of the process you know not the yeah okay what about teamwork did you want to comment craig reckon that was a bit hard because we could only discuss things in the meeting yeah yeah if we could just go up to somebody outside the meeting and have a quick talk with them that would have been a lot easier yeah okay fully agree i think you tried to use the common share folder to to to to communicate but it just comes back to us so slow in the email it it does not have a you know a messenger will go yeah did did you guys get the email i sent you yeah not just yet yeah 0 that is alright yeah got the email i was wondering if that got there okay okay okay so to s to to summarize the teamwork issue saying that if we could communicate outside the meeting you know just like quick questions quick thoughts whatever it probably would be bit easier yeah yeah in it i think the tools that they were given the tool set that were given to us are fancy but they do not support collaboration i think that is the word exactly they do not support the team working together you know they are still very individual tools 0 right okay yeah i mean if you yeah i mean sort of taking upon that idea w the way i see this i is that it is the the s the structure in which we have we have approached this whole task is quite contrary to the p principle of teamwork because the the tasks were d d sort of divided and then the work went on in isolation i i do not know what you guys did while you were together maybe that was a bit different but yeah but but actually if you if you imagine not entire the completely same task given to us but us said okay we had play doh fun 1st thing we have to do is come up with let us say a design concept and we sit here together and do it well that is what teamwork is yeah to s to say okay go off and do not talk to each other it is actually p sort of predisposes you to quite the contrary of teamwork yeah okay not that we have not done i think the best we could have done okay i am not dissatisfied with it right anything else to say on teamwork at all no not really okay what about the you know how we used the whiteboard the digital pens the projector stuff like that did anybody think anything was like really useful anything was pretty un f unsupportive i think the whiteboard for me is the kind of thing i would use all the time but it is not quite as useful as to us as it could have been maybe just in the way that we we use it in the sense that once we have an idea out there or while work was going on in between meetings that could have been up on a board you know as opposed to in like in text and then we could then keep our ideas sort of building on that i know that people who design cars and you know in aviation they quite often just have a simple like fiberglass prototype and it is completely you know abs abstract from the final product but they use it as a kind of a context to sort of walk around and puzzle and and and discuss and and and in a way everybody is as we discuss things in the in theoretically and out of our notebooks yeah and point at yeah we are just we are actually just each of us discussing something that is in each of our own minds it was not until we had this here you know yeah like at one point i peeked across and looked at craig is paper and i am like now i know what he is thinking cause i saw his book ah but the b the b whiteboard could have actually been this kind of continuing so do you think producing a prototype earlier in the process would have been a good idea think could be yeah i think the the focus of it a lot was the powerpoint as opposed to the to the whiteboard yeah yeah yeah and i think that m is also does you know hinder us and things i think yeah yeah yeah it will be cooler to have the whiteboard rather than the the powerpoint or maybe the whiteboard and the powerpoint in the same place you know in the center of the yeah yeah yeah okay yeah because the powerpoint was provided to us while we had time to prepare whereas i can imagine if i had been encouraged to use paintbrush for example or whatever i would have actually used it ca you know alright just cause that is sorta how we what we were set up to to use while we had our time okay i think that there were too many powerpoints in the meetings yeah cause the plug in and the plugging spent we spent a lot of time doing that yeah yeah and a lot of the information on the powerpoints i do not think you know we needed to actually it could have yeah no not quite we could have gone through it verbally especially my slides i felt that they just you know as opposed to having to present them yeah yeah okay yeah what about the digital pens did you find them easy enough to use yep clunky sure yeah 0 they are a bit clunky agreed yeah yeah yep clunky okay having to tick it before you go off was a bit hindering as well cause you are half way through a thought and then you run out of paper and then you have to jump yeah i know i think at the very start of today i like wrote a whole load of stuff yeah did not click note on one then went back and wrote one tiny wee thing on the another page but then did click note and so i am quite worried that i have just written over the top of it or something but they will have my paper anyway and have not done that since but i think the pen is v is very intuitive everybody knows how to use it we do not have to worry yeah yeah so i think the pen is good it is about the best thing and 0 on the topic of the technology it just occurred to me that we actually did not need to move our computers because each computer has all of the files yeah it just occurred to me that they all yeah we only needed one computer and we only actually needed one computer yeah that is true if there had been a 5th that could have just been sitting there ready to go the whole time good point and the computer may not be conducive to a meeting because you tend to look at your computer and want to have the urge to check something yeah yeah yeah yeah you know it is useful but do you think the computers just provide distraction in a meeting i think too many computers are just distracting yeah okay i know i i like to have things written down in front of me actually like a lot of the stuff that was emailed to me i ended up you know like writing down there or something so i could look at it really quickly and not have the distraction of all of that yep yep i do not know about anybody else what else any wh i do i am not really sure what they are looking for when they say new ideas found i do not know is could you think of like anything else that would have been helpful today at all is this for the project or well the w main one for me is that the process na in a natural f context would not have been interrupted by this necessity to discommunicate ourselves from each other so that is kind of a new idea for me is like just sort of that idea yeah if we just had well you know it is kind of s hard to keep f working forward on a team a team based project when when you are told you must now work away from your team yeah i i dunno i think it was quite good that we had time limits on the meetings because they really could have run on and like my experience with meetings is that they really do 0 yeah and you can spend a lot of time talking about the only thing is though like when we had our meeting about the conceptual design yeah yeah i thought there maybe another 15 minutes would have been useful there but yeah i really thi i i think maybe if we would like all been working in the one room and they just said you know like every hour or something everybody make sure yo you know just have a have a short meeting and then just c just to have like something written down just like you know a a milestone if you like rather than having meetings but there you go so in closing i have not got my 5 minutes to go thin 0 there it i 5 minutes to go wonderful okay are the costs within the budget yes they are and is the project evaluated yes it is so now celebrate great so it and we have ninja homer so now we 0 yeah well apparently now i write the final report do we know what the other ones are what are you guys doing now i i do not know you dunno 0 wow that is lovely hey yeah i said ninja homer what did you call it ninja homer see it looks like homer simpson huh huh but it is electronic so it is made in japan so is that j is that just is that just a logo or does it do anything logo yeah it is just a logo just a logo and then like ninja homer right okay huh ninja homer the the red is supposed to represent the whatever else you want to print on the side of it i think it is quite nice fashion technology or something you can wear homer you can throw homer when you are frustrated doh 0 no that is cool it has got i am kind of i am slightly gutted that we could not get plastic and rubber i think that would have been nice it is clunky yeah yeah ah well maybe from now on real reaction should give us more money 0 i did learn something new play doh is useful play doh s no it is it is it is useful and in in in in in in in conceptualizing in being creative huh huh really cause like you say it is something you can put your hands on and feel and touch and get a sense for yeah yeah like we were playing with the play doh and the ideas came with the play doh rather than with everything else did they you might want to write that down yeah it is just i am just fiddling with the play doh and i am going yeah yeah it is kinda cool okay play doh no it is true yeah guess i would forgot how good s play doh smells yeah it smells funny does not it and some play dohs are actually i think edible are not they no all play doh is edible yeah like the stuff for i think it has to be yeah i think they are all non toxic cause it is aimed for like 2 year olds it is just wheat it is the stuff that your mom could make with preservatives and wow yeah so to wha what are your summarizing words about play doh it is helpful to the creative process huh it engages all your senses not just your sight but your sense of feel your sense of touch okay yep and it helps you to understand taste dimension as well yeah i think that that is very helpful because it it starts to pop up whereas on a piece of paper on a computer on a board yeah yeah yep even with a 3 d graphic thing it still it requires a lot of yeah tangible that is a nice word yeah yeah it is not very tangible yeah it becomes tangible tangible okay i do not know if there is anything else we needed to discuss nope that that is about it really just sit still i guess for a little while do we retreat to our to continue our i think we could probably do it here as long as we do not collaborate r reporting or what i well i dunno i am sure the little the little thing will pop up any minute now can we turn off the microphones yeah yeah if the meeting is over then yeah i guess so
okay we are all set right well this is the final detailed design meeting we are going to discuss the look and feel design the user interface design and we are going to evaluate the product and the end result of this meeting has to be a decision on the details of the remote control like absolute final decision and then i am going to have to specify the final design in the final design in the final report so just from last time to recap we said we were going to have a snowman shaped remote control with no lcd display no need for talk back it was hopefully going to be kinetic power and battery with rubber buttons maybe backlighting the buttons with some internal leds to shine through the casing hopefully a jog dial and incorporating the slogan somewhere as well anything i have missed okay sue if you want to present your prototype go ahead this is it ninja homer made in japan there are a few changes we have made we have to look at the expense sheet and it turned to be quite a lot expensive to have it open up and have lots of buttons and stuff inside so instead of this is going to be an lcd screen just a very very basic one very small with access to the menu through the scroll wheel and confirm and then apart from that it is pretty much the same to discuss last time and it does not open up to the advanced functions so the advanced functions are still hidden from you but they are hidden in the sense that they are not in use where are they they are in the lcd panel on the jog dial ah all right so what kind of thing is going to be the lcd panel just displays functionally what you are doing if you are using an advanced function right like brightness contrast whatever it would just say you know it is like it only has 4 columns it is a very simple lcd like or as many the minimum amount we need that they usually will automatically know like this is brightness or this is contrast it might even be one a bit more complex lcd panel with pictures like maybe the sun or you know the symbols of the various functions and what is this here that is a number pad okay so the number pad is where are we going to have this slogan i am just like along this okay cool you have this space here and then you have this thing on the side as well or at the bottom the slogans are usually quite small right they are not like huge so there is say a button is about this size right so you would still have plenty of space for a slogan so if this is a button is not to scale what kind of dimensions are you thinking about here well the buttons to be big enough to push easily with the finger so we reckon that would be about the same size as the palm your hand yeah so that would be about a centimeter for a button so 1234 centimeters plus maybe half 59 in total 678 but yeah 9 that sounds good 10 centimeters that would be good so 10 centimeters in height okay  that would be good in fact a pen is about 10 centimeters usually so that would be that sounds like a really good sign you see it there that is great and it is very bright as well so is it possible i am just going to bring up the idea of colors are these the colors of production is this just what we had available we are going to have again the sort of the foggy yellow from the last time that we are up when you freeze the button okay so could you list all the things that it does so i can write them in the report this button because it is red it is sort of very problem we are going to use it as it is going to be the power button if you hold it for maybe 2 seconds i will send a standby signal apart from that it is going to be used as a confirm button for the lcd screen okay use this as a jogged there okay so that is like a good button 0 we have discussed how high it is but how wide is it okay how high is it no as in the height yeah but what about the wish 0 that depth of the actual 5 do we need 5 yeah about 35 okay 0 it is just to get an idea of scale from your yeah sure so you can par on and off what else can you do you can skip straight it is a channel using these buttons okay we are going to have the volume control here because we have got the lcd and the jog dial we just thought we would use that as the volume okay jog dial for volume and what else do you do with the jog dial you can use it for more advanced functions like contrast color contrast brightness yeah yeah anything else just whatever else we wanted to include the advanced functions but then i did not actually go through and specify the well as the designers what are they what can a tv do okay things like brightness contrast maybe tuning the channels okay channel tuning what else the various inputs so you have a vcr you have you know which input do you have probably color sharpness yeah color sharpness a lot of these things will have to be free and open for users to define them okay what about signed settings can you change any of those at all audio we have like your basic your base your mid range your high range you have the balance yep left right balance maybe even pre programmed sound modes okay the user could determine a series of sound modes a series of sound modes and what could happen would be when you click on that and we go to that setting okay is there anything else at all that can do because that is fine just need to know so i can write it down okay right i guess that is it so we can now have a little look at the excel sheet and price this thing and see if we need that and see if we need to rethink anything at all so for this 1st part here power wise have we got battery do you have kinetic as well no no okay just battery we need and that is because of cost restraints is it yeah okay what about the electronics here advanced chip i think let me just confirm that yes i think so okay the case what does it mean by single and double do you know i think single i just be sort of one or double where doubles this sort of thing so we want double curved yeah okay plastic is there any rubber at all in the button i think we are going to have to skip the rubber okay and we want it special colors do not we so i will have to pop that 0 no wait how many colors have we got there for the case itself one color it is one special color just one color okay because the case unit itself the rest of the components on top of it so interface wise is it this 3rd option we have the 2 of them there one the lcd display okay and then buttons we have got 2 colors we got some of the color as well we have got push buttons as well like 0 wait so push button and integrated school okay i reckon we have got one button for this thing because it is just one big sheet of rubber i am not sure if that counts but okay let us just be safe and put like say 4 buttons for that one okay okay and maybe a special color for the mons so maybe 4 again 4 so we are already so why are we arriving at the number 4 the number 4 where does the number 4 come from because that is one button but it is the complexity of 12 buttons okay right so we are running down 4 yeah it will be less okay are we wanting them and no no there is just is everything going to be plastic okay so we are all quite far over something is going to have to go we are at 168 and how how are we going to achieve this high end product well something has to go to the tune of €23 so let me see what are we 23 43 0 yes sorry 43 well we could take it once if we are making it single curve just fill in those bits how much would that save us how much would that save you one the other thing could be that you could you could take away the lcd panel and advance chip together because when you do something on the tv the tv responds and reacts as well so the user could be looking to the tv and pushing this thing so we may not need to so when we scroll we need just some way to get the tv to respond which i think is a technically doable thing so what is our reviewed suggestion take away the lcd display yep and the advanced chip goes away as well advanced chip goes away as well to be replaced with a regular chip so what that means is that and so we have got 3 to get rid of and we have where are the 4 push buttons are where exactly now the 12 buttons that you see there 12 buttons it is one piece of rubber but it is going to have 12 functionally you have to intercept so 4 is a good estimate for do you think yeah yeah you can not actually cut it is like 3 times the number of buttons it is 4 8 12 is that one big button or is it 12 buttons how can it be something in between it needs to be more than one big button because if you open up your phone underneath there is actually one button underneath it is just that the panel itself is a single panel okay well we have 3 to get rid of this somewhere just report that it has to be over budget or the colors no 10 colors for the buttons yeah we could just go with normal colored buttons well do you want color differentiation here no that is not the button we are talking about the buttons only refer to the pads so right so take that off it is back to the original so then these just become normal colored buttons so that might be some way of cutting the cost okay 0 that is a shit right so take away that completely aw and now we are under budget so we do have ¢5 to play with if we wanted how about with embossing the logo is not that going to cost us some money does not say so i can that for you count as a special form for buttons yeah yeah that is a good idea one does that mean that one button has a special button one button has a special form or i think there is just one button so yeah okay well there we go so i am just going to have to redraw this and i so we are not going to have the lcd anymore we are just going to have an on the tv it will show you what you are doing which i think is fair enough and so this is going to be one big thing here was the goal in your in your prototype design that it be as low profile as possible profile as possible what do you mean by profile sort of flat as possible no because i am actually being quite deep so you are not to be comfy to hold your hands while and white and black we did not have enough play doh to make it yeah all right okay just done there so there is one more dimension to the thing which we need to add and you might want to add in a point length width and height right okay so just to well to be thorough then widthwise we are looking at about what 3 centimeters or something yeah okay and then so height wise how tall you can visit you being about that way about 2 centimeters okay 2 is not very high at all though this is about 2 slightly more than 2 yeah and by that thick okay maybe closer to 3 okay we will say 25 okay so we have it within cost anyway so yeah project evaluation is this point right okay so can we close that this is what it is the final spec that is going to be so i am just going to have to yeah that is fine that is fine it is probably just i do not know if it is worth getting it into but just in and that we want this to be stylish should we think a little bit more out of the box in terms of a button grid because i have seen there is lots of devices out there that instead of taking your standard 99 square grid and have it sort of stylized or in different concept that i think that is something that is very hard to catch yeah so you restrict the number of people want to try something sure okay the look and the color is something which is cool yeah i think there is also that factor of it is too unfamiliar okay okay sure because when you put it on the shell square buttons yeah button shape might be a good idea to change rather than positioning because i think positioning is we are kind of ingrained into the telephone kind of pad okay right so at this point we discuss how satisfied we all are with them these 4 points with the room for creativity and the project and leadership and teamwork and the stuff we had around us i guess let me see do you want me to do my design evaluation last yeah i was not really sure what that was yeah evaluation yeah go for that 1st i was not entirely sure what i am not really sure what he was supposed to be doing that but you go for it all right so the way this works i am going to need to plug in the powerpoint okay i will try and do it as quick as possible okay this is i will just go over your head if that is okay yeah i do not think you need the power so what is that no it is okay i do not need the powerpoint no the power cord itself 0 of course yeah so then you get more freedom to a bit more okay so what this is is for us to use kind of like the ideas that i have set up i have reviewed all of the points of discussion from the beginning and use that as a criteria of evaluation for the current design or the plan and so we can review that i think it is going to end up being elementary because we are not going to probably use it to change anything it does not seem like it is going okay great and i am going to write up our results on the board so this will be a way for us to go through and decide if we are to review where we stand in it okay so sort of bringing together 2 things for design goals and also the market research that we had when we rate this one is high in succeeding or fitting to our original aim and 7 is low okay so these are there and we have been asked to collectively rate this so what we can do is try and just work on a consensus system so we just come to an agreement okay okay so the 1st one the stylish look and feel i rate that pretty highly well yeah compared to most remote controls you see that is pretty good as you see that is pretty good i do not know like a 6 or something what does anybody else say yeah my only reservation with it was that we basically went with yellow because it is the company is color and i do not know if yellow is going to really be a hit but okay i am going to 5 then what do you guys think i would say 5 or 6 okay yep i am fine okay let us go 5 then okay it is actually the opposite it is one to 7 right 0 yes sorry then i would say 2 okay wait what is the scale one is 7 one is high is not it one is high ah okay yeah 2 or 3 okay okay 2 or 5 then okay control high tech innovation well it was probably we jog dial but yeah so we have had to remove a few of our features we wanted but jog dial i would say it is more 3 or 4 maybe 3 but going towards a little bit higher okay than medium kind of 3 okay okay style reflects a fruit inspired color design should not say color but the blue the blue colors and do not actually represent the color except for the red button they because for one of a but the yellow i mean it could be a yellow yeah the yellow is more representative of the color but the button itself the blue can be anything else okay so 2 okay and design is simple to use simple and features yeah and it is really basic looking is not it i mean i would give that nearly a one you guys think yeah one yep yeah one that is fine soft and spongy have we achieved that we have used mostly plastic in the end it is going to be quite a bit of a compromise for price 5 5 that is really low well i have to use plastic yeah i suppose okay could we have used an entirely rubber frame to it is that an option it would be cost more than plastic then yeah logo we have got it in there have not we yeah going to have that on the side do not we it is within budget yep it is is not it yeah okay so we can say then that out of a possible or what would be a yeah out of 49 with 0 being the highest yeah 10 27 8 10 155 pretty good pretty good translate to something like about approximately 72% efficacy of our original goal right i think because if you turn that into a 100 it would be about twice that about 31 and then invert that so yeah well you have a 69 70% 0 right about 7 it is pretty good okay good that was just a little formality for us to go through okay 0 £100 pen sorry nobody saw it honestly the cameras did is that your all finished yeah that is me i did have one other frame i thought i mean not knowing how we would deal with this information information i thought okay in theory this kind of process would be about refining our design revisiting our original goals it is not something i need to push through but i thought should we thinking more about the dimensions sort of like more of a 3 dimensional shapes as well as opposed to just that flat could our design involve a series of colors that it is more of like a line where we have like sort of the i do not know like the harvest line or the vibrant i do not know whatever just some theme and we have different tones lines lines green lemon okay it is just discussion i mean obviously we can just abandon this it is fine just thinking about what we originally set out to do right yep okay great are you submitting the evaluation criteria or am i i do not know what your instructions have been i think to record it and i have not been asked to submit it yet okay i am just wondering if i need to include it in the minutes because if you are submitting it anyway i will yeah okay great keep you cool right well next up then because we have done finance is the project evaluation i am listening i am just trying to incorporate the logo into the thing so i am playing with the play doh as well just in case you are wondering is you still playing with the play dol just like right can not you get your legal my look want to just individually say what you think about these 4 points and not those 4 points my 4 points so you have got a different i like those printer cables that just have the 2 little butterfly clips 0 yeah it is really quick right okay yeah here we are i do not know we will do this alphabetically do you want to start sure so what is it you are asking of me now i do not know your opinion on those 4 points really and how we that is sort of our work on setting this up yeah well is it okay i will just go through your system i know the room is fairly institutional but the main thing is i think our use of the space is more just to report on things as opposed to be creative and constructive and it would probably help to have sort of a cumulative effect of we have ideas and we come back and then the ideas are still in discussion you know as in other words this room is sort of a center point of creativity whereas in reality we have gone through this it is not really a center point of creativity it is more just a do you feel though that you were able to have quite a lot of creative input into the yeah yeah but that is just the thing is the question in terms of the 1st point there the room it feels is that the creativity goes on when we lead and then we come here and then we kind of put out our ideas and then i do not i do not think it means the room as in this room i think it means like you know 0 right right 0 right okay all right i just looked up and saw okay white for digital pens the room 0 okay no of course yeah well i do know i think it means i think you think you were able to give creative input yeah okay yeah answering the question in those terms i would say that actually there is sort of a tease of creativity because we are asked to work through this but actually the guidelines are fairly contrived in terms of okay fashion trends say fruit and vegetable color scheme but then we are told if you can use the company colors so what do we do we are told okay i think in terms of style and look and feel and technology but build something for 12 and a half pounds okay so actually the creativity was more of like a sort of a formality than that you feel like caged within whatever it is like a balloon in a cage it can even go so big if not hit the side the constraints do come in actually let us take each point and everybody discuss it i think yeah so still on the topic of room for creativity next up is craig i agree with his points there is quite a lot of fun to go through and then you have to start at the end and go right got to cut everything out because we do not have enough money yeah yeah i think another point is that the meetings are more brainstorming sessions than meetings so time is also a very strong factor and structure because for a brainstorming meeting you want a structure that allows you to allow ideas to get tossed to be evaluated and to be reviewed and to get feedback and come back and i guess that point about the room not being very friendly to that i think that is a very big thing and i think the fact that we are wearing these things restricts i feel it because i wear my glasses right but that irritates me right it does actually affect whether you feel comfortable to communicate i feel like i am hiding behind the equipment rather than the equipment is helping me so you think a more relaxed atmosphere would be more kind of conducive not so much in atmosphere the atmosphere is very relaxed but the gear yeah you know creates boundaries to that and the time given also restricts very good what about leadership i do not know if that means like if i did a good job or something i do not really know i mean my sense on that is sort of what kind of guidance and direction and something like your personal coach person and stuff like that yeah and you as well i think i am sort of acting as a team leader yeah i think it is good i mean my personal view on leadership is that effective leadership sort of gives people a certain room for freedom and delegation but then to come back to something that they take great ownership and innovative thought with in reality i think here the different elements of leadership such as the original briefing and then the personal coach and then you know having having you with your meeting agenda is actually quite a quite a quite a confining framework to work within and so it is leadership almost at the point of sort of disempowering the team member but it is not bad leadership it is just sort of fairly strong you know it turns the individual into more of like a sort of a predetermined mechanism as a so maybe any to controlling yeah 0 yeah i think controlling is not the right word the interactions are very structured i think structure is probably what you are saying that each individual is structured to one particular task and one particular rather than controlling i do not need a sense of control because our decisions have been made in terms of a consensus right we go around and we think about it but that you know process actually says you have to do it in a certain way okay it does not tell you you know sometimes you might want to be a bit more creative in terms of the process yeah not the okay what about teamwork did you want to comment i think that was a bit hard because we could only discuss things in the meeting yeah if we could just go up to somebody outside the meeting and have a quick talk to them it would have been a lot easier okay i think you tried to use the common share folder to to communicate but it just comes back to a certain it just comes back to us so slow in the email it does not have a messenger do you guys get the email i sent you yeah i was wondering if that got there okay so to summarize the teamwork issue saying that if we could communicate outside the meeting you know just like quick questions quick thoughts whatever it probably would be i think the tools that they were given the tool set that were given to us are fancy but they do not support collaboration i think that is the word they do not support the team working together yeah you know they are still very individual tools yeah i mean sort of taking upon that idea the way i see this is that it is the structure in which we have approached this whole task is quite contrary to the principle of teamwork because the tasks were sort of divided and then the work went on in isolation i do not know what you guys did while you were together maybe that was a bit different but but but actually if you if you imagine the entire the completely same task given to us but us said okay 1st thing we have to do is come up with let us say a design concept and we sit here together and do it yeah well that is what teamwork is to say okay go off and do not talk to each other it is actually sort of predisposes you to quite the contrary of teamwork not that we have not done i think the best we could have done i am not dissatisfied with it right anything else to say on teamwork at all no i think okay what about the you know how we use the whiteboard the digital pens the projector stuff like that did anybody think anything was really useful anything was pretty un supported i think the whiteboard for me is the kind of thing i would use all the time but it is not quite as useful to us as it could have been maybe just in the way that we use it in the sense that once we have an idea out there or while work was going on in between meetings that could have been up on a board you know as opposed to in text and then we could then keep our ideas sort of building on that i know that people who design cars and you know in aviation they quite often just have a simple like fiberglass prototype and it is completely you know abstract from the final product but they use it as a kind of a context to sort of walk around and puzzle and and discuss and in a way everybody is as we discuss things in theoretically and out of our notebooks we are just we are actually just each of us discussing something in each of our own mind it was not until we had this here you know like at one point i peeked across and looked at craig is paper and i am like now i know what he is thinking because i saw his book but the whiteboard could have actually being this kind of continuing so do you think producing a prototype earlier in the process would have been a good idea i think the focus of it a lot was the powerpoint as opposed to the whiteboard and i think that that also does hinders and things i think it will be cooler to have the whiteboard rather than the powerpoint or maybe the whiteboard and the powerpoint in the same place yeah because the powerpoint was provided to us what we had time to prepare whereas i can imagine if i had been encouraged to use paintbrush for example or whatever i would have actually used it just because that is sort of how we were set up to use when we had that time okay i think that there were too many powerpoints in the meetings the plug in and the plugging spent we spent a lot of time doing that and a lot of information on the powerpoints i do not think you know we need it to actually we could have gone through them very verbally my slides i felt that you know as opposed to have them to present them what about the digital pens did you find them easy enough to use i am kind of clunky yep clunky agreed okay okay having to tick it before you go off was a bit hindering as well because you are halfway through a thought and then you run out paper and then you have to jump i know i think at the very start of today i like wrote a hoolood a start did not click note on one then went back and wrote one tiny thing on another page but then did click note and so i am quite worried that i have just written over the top of it or something but they will have my paper anyway and i have not done that but i think the pen is very intuitive everybody knows how to use it we do not have to worry yeah i think the pen is good not the best thing on the topic of the technology it just occurred to me that we actually did not need to move our computers because each computer has all of the file yeah it just occurred to me that they yeah we only needed one computer we only actually needed one computer if there had been a 5th it could have just been sitting there ready to go and the computer may not be conducive to a meeting because you tend to look at your computer and want to have the urge to check something it is useful but do you think the computers just provide distraction in the meeting i think too many computers are just distracting and i like to have things written down in front of me actually like a lot of the stuff that was emailed to me i ended up you know like writing down there or something so i could look at it really quickly and not have the distraction of all of that i do not know about anybody else what else i am not really sure what they are looking for and they are saying new ideas found i do not know could you think of anything else that would have been helpful today at all well the main one for me is that the process in a natural context would not have been interrupted by this necessity to discommunicate ourselves that is kind of a new idea for me is like just sort of that idea well you know it is kind of hard to keep working forward on a team based project when you are told you must now work away from the meeting yeah i think it is quite good that we had time limits on the meetings because they really could have run on and my experience of meetings is that they really do and you can spend a lot of time talking about the only thing is though like when we had our meeting about the conceptual design i thought there maybe another 15 minutes would have been useful there i think maybe if we all been working in the one room and they just said you know every hour or something everybody make sure you know just have a short meeting and then just just to have like something written down just like you know a milestone if you like rather than having meetings but there you go so in closing i have not got my 5 minutes to go think 0 there it 5 minutes to go wonderful okay are the costs is in the budget yes they are and is the project evaluated yes it is so now celebrate we have ninja homer well apparently now i write the final report what are you guys doing now i do not know 0 wow that is lovely i said ninja homer what did you call it ninja homer see it looks like homer simpson but it is electronic so it is made in your hand is that just a logo or is it doing a thing it is just a logo and then like ninja the red is supposed to represent whatever else you want to print on the side of it fashion technology or something you can wear homer you can throw homer when you are frustrated duh it is cool i am kind of i am slightly gutted that we can get plastic and rubber i think that would have been nice yeah 0 wow maybe from our own real reaction should give us more money 0 i did learn something play doh is useful no it is it is it is useful in conceptualizing in being creative it is like you say it is something you can put your hands on and feel and touch and get a sense where like we were playing with the play doh and the ideas came with the play doh did they rather than with everything else you might want to write that okay i am just filling with the play 0 yeah it is true i forgot how you just the pledo smells yeah it smells funny does not it some platoes are actually edible are not they no all of it it is just sweet it is the stuff that your mom could make with preservatives so what are your summarizing words about play div it is helpful to the creative process it engages all your senses not just your sight but your sense of feel your sense of touch and it helps you to understand dimension as well i think that is very helpful because it starts to pop up whereas on a piece of paper on a computer on a board even with a 3 d graphics even with a 3 d graphic thing it still requires a lot of yeah tangible that is an example it becomes tangible tengible okay  i do not know if there is anything else you need to discuss that is about it really just sit still i guess for it all do we retreat to our to continue our i think we could probably do it here well i do not know i am sure that will pop up any minute now can you turn off the microphones yeah yeah the meeting is over then yeah and my microphone has no signal which would explain why i do not know why you do not get any more it might be like this yeah might be because the power is door right it is fun back i think the time has to run out for us to get any more instructions does not it yeah that is really cool i can see the talk i can see my own voice on there do you really watch thank you you know you know you know you know thank you