okay 0 that is not going to work 0 alright okay okay alright i will just put that there as you all know we are here to create a brand new fantastic remote i am nick debusk i am the project manager we will just get started with everyone kind of letting each other know who they are and what you are doing what your what your role is go ahead okay i am corinne whiting and i will be the marketing expert and in each of the 3 phases i will have a different role in the function design phase i will be talking about user requirement specification and this means what needs and desires are to be fulfilled and i will be doing research to figure this out in the conceptual design phase i will be dealing with trend watching and i will be doing marketing research on the web and then finally in the detailed design phase i will be doing product evaluation and so i will be collecting the requirements and ranking all the requirements to see how we did kay hiya i am ryan i am the user interface designer likewise i have 3 different roles for each stage of design the functional design is looking at the tex technical functions of a remote control in the concept design the user interface how the user reacts with the the product and the detailed design sort of like the user interface design what they might be looking for things like fashions what makes wha how we are going to make it special that is about it right i am manuel and i am the industrial designer in in this project in the functional design phase i am i will be dealing mostly with the requirements we will discuss what the prog what functions the the product has to fulfill and so and so on i suppose we will work pretty much together on that one in the conceptual design i will be pro mostly dealing with properties and materials of our product yeah and the detailed design in the detailed design i will be concerned with the look and feel of the product itself so we are pretty much working together obviously on the design front here okay okay so we have got our opening our our agenda is the opening acquaintance which we have kinda done tool training project plan discussion and then closing grand total of 25 minutes we have here so we are putting together a new remote control we want it to be something original of course we are a not only a electronics company but a fashion conscious electronics company so we want it to be trendy and we want it to be easy to use we have got the functional design conceptual design and detailed design which basically is is the 3 of you and w well functional design do we have any ideas of of maybe d let us just throw out some ideas of what kind of remote control we want to have and then we can go into how we are going to design it and and how we are going to do the detailing on it yeah well s function of remote control is just just you know change channels is its main function so we want it to be a t v remote or i i mean do we want it to to do other things besides just be a a television remote 0 right i suppose you c try make it a universal remote for could work on all sort of electrical kay products in in one person is house but you know they all sorta have the same role changing channels volumes and then programming kay i think they all work on the same prin principle as well sorta like i do not actually know but is it just infra red is that standard i i think yeah yeah r universal remote ye yeah this is my 1st go round with creating a remote control so i think we are all in the same boat here huh ours too one thing i thought of with the remote control is you always lose em okay so if there is a g a way of finding it quite easily i thought that would be quite good quite a good feature ch so we should we should set our remote control up to where it has a like a tracking device like a tracking device or or like a a 0 you can get those key well you could whistle or make a noise and it would beep it makes a noise there is a button on the t v that you press and yeah right kay be good so generally all remotes are sort of quite similar in their appearance yeah just long do we want so they are kinda like long and rectangular yeah do we want something crazy black usually you know we want something new that is going to stand out yeah lot more modern i think so a m a modern so our remote should be maybe sorta spherical or something a ball maybe like user friendly like a little yeah you know where you can use both hands like a little keyboard type thing people i thought maybe because people always tend to throw a remote control about the place to one another if it was in a ball and maybe the actual controls are inside or something kay well there are of course certain restrictions you can not have it be any form and fulfill all functions at the same time yeah so there are always the some restrictions we have to apply here however one question is how stable is that thing supposed to be that refers to the material pretty much what are we going to build that thing out of how sturdy is it going to be do we want it to last longer or rather have people whatever have to buy one every half a year okay so yeah so we want it to be sturdy we want it to to hold up to somebody is child you know yeah throwing it across the room or as you said people kinda throw it so ball shaped you know if it were ball shaped maybe then it yeah it could be cased on the outside and t everything could be inside kay so we want it to be modern fun sturdy so our form and our function we want it to be easy to find what else it what else do we want it to to do so we want it to be universal it is something that we are supposed to sell for about €25 and you know goals for profits are i think somewhere around €50000000 what they want to make on it so also since we are partners of the international remote control association maybe we want to make it something that would globally appeal kay that is more on the research end but the marketing so marketing you know how maybe marketing you could s find out what is the most universally appealing remote control out there yeah and maybe as far as design goes maybe we could have different ones for different target audiences kay cause maybe one will not apply to all of the countries we are targeting ye small right do you guys have any ideas for what it should look like maybe we could draw it up on the on the board over there some ideas we want it to be a b a ball you know we will draw up we will draw up the ball and maybe th where the buttons are located i would i could draw sorta the ball idea my original idea was just simply sort of a sphere where maybe you this is where it is connected together and then when you open it out it could fol it could be maybe flip like a flip phone and then when you fold it out the middle maybe a hinge that will have to be the strongest part of it if that if we did use a hinge or if it was just 2 parts and then you would have just sorta you you you know your buttons thing is inside i think sometimes remotes have too many buttons so maybe as simple as possible as few buttons inside as possible i dunno what is the idea for just something maybe if you ha if it had like if some kind of like light or something or lights around it it is looking a bit like something out of star wars at the moment though to be fair but yeah futuristic that was that was a sorta simple idea i had and then you know you could about huh right it would almost be like a ball so that was just just an idea i had i do not know whether anybody else has other ideas right one problem you would get with this design is the ball is a nice idea because of it is stability really but of course yeah since it is a ball it will roll so we would have to have it flat on one side at least down here somewhere take away that part yeah maybe f yeah that is one of the big issues yeah that is g that is a good idea also also you risk the hinges here yeah that is that is a problem the idea it did not have to necessarily be f a hinge that was just one idea though that is that is interesting of course but that is of course a weak point yeah yeah how would we go about making you know getting rid of our weak points what i mean would we just have a flat spot on the bottom of the ball not to put you on the spot but e no no what did you say your title was again n n i am your industrial designer so i b well the point is you are the the industrial designer that well maybe i dunno the shape is perhaps not the most ideal okay as as stable as it is there must be a compromise between stability and design here so well i i suppose that things become design but i mean i i was trying to think of like the design of others i can not think of anything other than a long rectangle for remote maybe small sort of fatter ones but there is nothing being done sort of out of left field yeah yeah it is not new it is not innovative it is you know everybody does long remote because it is easy it is it is stable yeah kay i will draw something so if no go ahead what my idea was just to have it be kind of like a keyboard type shape you know like video games l so yeah but maybe i mean that would be kinda big and bulky we could also try to do the hinge thing so it could like flip out that way i do not know that is my idea i think definitely doing something different yeah is a good idea i mean maybe design something that is sort of like i suppose not everybody is everybody is hand is the same but something that would maybe fit in the hand easier something with a grip yeah with a grip yeah yeah because even i suppose even with the ball it still might be hard to it still not the ho easiest thing to hold yeah it is it might not be the easiest to hold onto so perhaps the the joystick the the keyboard idea might work better like yeah but then again people like to use one hand to flip and one hand to hold their soda so maybe maybe we true yeah it is d yeah i think it is definitely got to be a a one handed a one handed job i feel like i am just shooting everything down here that is fine you are the boss you are allowed to well with the one handed design you also have the the problem of the size w cause you know from cell phones they can be too small so if the remote is too small it if it is small it probably looks better but yeah yeah may not be th as functional so for that there is okay so unfortunately we have got about 5 minutes here to come up with our remote control idea and start rolling with it so we have talked about our experiences with remote control and we have got a couple ideas let us see here what if we had what if we had not only say we went with the ball the ball function but maybe we give it sort of grips along the side s to make it easier to hold on to so you know s so it is easier to hold onto that way yeah course that will then remove some of our our ball unless this unless this part were raised so say the cover flips over and covers that part so the grip is no that would not work either but if we are going to make it flat on the bottom then that eliminates our ball anyways so if it were flat on the bottom and then had the sorta grips on the side here i guess and then flat and then we have the problem with the hinge so if we are flat on the bottom it is not going to roll away it will stay where we want the question is also i dunno d do you really always want to open that thing when you have to use it that is true it is probably going to lie around opened all the time anyway so i do not know if a lid is a good idea from stabil stability point of view it certainly is but also you have to face it and take into account the more of these things break by accident the more we sell so it is do not make it too stable so we do not have it flip open we just have a ball but then maybe to go back to the to th s something along those things then to the other design okay so then we forget the ball it looks cool looks cool though it looks cool but it is really not it is not functional yeah functional so we have got our sort of keyboard kind what if we flipped it around here so that it were sorry that does not look anything like what you had there so it is up and down you hold it this way course then it is it is like the rectangular again only with a couple of jutting out points yeah right right but it is one handed question is what makes those game pads functional w i think that is pretty much the form for full hand so it is a round shape underneath that makes it comfy right makes it nice so that is the essential part yeah except for that i think we will not probably not get a get away from some longer design yeah right cause you also have to know which way around to point this thing yeah because it does not have a cord like joysticks do you know all that dif batteries right and batteries go weak as well so after a while you have to point it towards the towards the equipment you want to control with it right so have to m show which is the front which is the back is it possible to have it to where it would work with a like a sensor on either side so that either way you are pointing it it would work i suppose you could do that 0 of course the more technology you stick in that the more it will cost so more expensive and yeah course you can do that kay i mean of course it will be evident after a while or if you look at it it will it will be evident which way around to point it since you have the the numbers and the and the the buttons and stuff true but it is rather about an instinctual thing put it like you just grab it you do not have to s look at it you know which way around to point it otherwise the design of or the the point of putting 2 sensors on both sides would probably work even if you designed it in some in a way that you know is not a rectangle but still pointed in a direction that had definite points so if that is your thing and you got something like that instead and there is your s you kn you know which way you are going to pointing it yeah kay sorry to interrupt but we have a warning to finish are we out of time yeah okay well just to finish up should we s go with this plan start making some are good ideas what are not let us does it say what does it say for n it says on there what we need to do for the next meeting i think obviously must finish now so t and then marketing will look and see what what people want alright great okay and project manager will design a better meeting for next time around be a little bit more prepared and alright good meeting
okay 0 that is not going to work 0 all right all right okay okay all right as you all know we are here to create a brand new fantastic remote i am nick debusk i am the project manager we will just get started with everyone kind of letting each other know who they are and what you are doing and what you are doing what you are what your role is go ahead okay i am corinne whiting and i will be the marketing expert and in each of the 3 phases i will have a different role in the function design phase i will be talking about user requirement specification and this means what needs and desires are to be fulfilled and i will be doing research to figure this out in the conceptual design phase i will be dealing with trend watching and i will be doing marketing research on the web and then finally in the detailed design phase i will be doing product evaluation and so i will be collecting the requirements and ranking all of the requirements to see how we did okay hi i am ryan i am the user interface designer likewise i have 3 different roles for each stage of the stage of the design design the functional design is looking at the technical functions of remote control and the concept design the user interface how the user reacts with the product and the detailed design sort of like the user interface design what they might be looking for things like fashions what makes how we are going to make it special that is about it i am manuel and i am the industrial designer and in this project in the functional design phase i will be dealing mostly with the requirements we will discuss what functions the product has to fulfill and so on and so on i suppose we will work pretty much together on that one in the conceptual design i will be mostly dealing with properties and materials of our product and the detailed design and the detailed design in the detailed design i will be concerned with look and feel of the product itself pretty much working together obviously on the design frontier okay so we have got our opening our agenda is the opening acquaintance which we have kind of done tool training project plan discussion and then closing grand total of 25 minutes we have here so we are putting together a new remote control we want it to be something original of course we are not only a electronics company but a fashion conscious electronics company so we want it to be trendy and we want it to be easy to use we have got the functional design conceptual design and detailed design which basically is the 3 of you and and well functional design   do we have  any ideas of maybe let us just throw out some ideas of ideas of what kind of remote control we want to have and then we can go into how we are going to design it and how we are going to do the detailing on it yeah well function of remote control is just just you know change the channels is its main function so we want it to be a tv remote or i mean do we want it to do other things besides just be a television remote i suppose you try to make it a universal remote okay i could work on all sort of electrical products in one person is house but you know they all sort of have the same role changing channels volumes and then programming okay i think they all work on the same principles as well i do not actually know tyler but is it just infrared is that just in that i think yeah universal remote this is my 1st go round with creating remote control so i think we are all in the same boat here one thing i thought of a remote control is you always lose them okay so there was a way of finding it quite easily so we should we should feature our remote control up to where it has a like a tracking device like a tracking device or like a you whistle or make a noise it makes a noise there is a button on the tv that you press yeah okay okay so generally all remotes are sort of quite similar in their appearance yeah do we want so they are kind of like long we are kind of like long and rectangular we want something crazy you know we want something new that is going to stand out i think so a modern so our remote should be spherical or something ball maybe like user friendly like a little yeah you know where you can use both hands like a little keyboard type thing i thought maybe because people always sent a 3rd remote control about the place to one other if it was in a ball and actual controls are inside or something well there are of course certain restrictions you can not have it be any form and fulfill all functions at the same time so there are obviously some restrictions we have to apply here however one question is how stable is that thing supposed to be that refers to the material pretty much what are we going to build the thing out of how sturdy is it going to be do we want it to last longer or rather have people whatever okay so we want to be sturdy we want it to hold up to somebody is child you know throwing it across the room or as you said people kind of throw it so ball shaped you know if it were ball shaped maybe could be cased on the outside and anything could be inside okay so we want it to be modern fun sturdy so our form and our function we want it to be easy to find what else what else do we want it to do what else do we want it to do so we want it to be universal it is something that we are supposed to sell for about €25 and you know goals for profits are i think somewhere around €50000000 what they want to make on it also since we are partners of the international remote control association maybe we want to make it something that would globally appeal okay that is more on the research end but the marketing so marketing yeah how maybe marketing you could find out what is the most universally you know what is the most universally appealing remote control out there yeah maybe as far as design goes maybe we could have different ones for different target audiences okay because maybe one will not apply to all of the countries we are targeting right do you guys have any ideas for what it should look like maybe we could draw it up on the board over there some ideas we want to be a ball drop the ball and maybe where the buttons are located or my original idea was just simply sort of sphere where maybe you know this is where it is connected together and then when you open it out it could be maybe a flip like a flip phone and then when you fold it out the middle that is maybe a hinge that would have to be the strongest part of it if you did use a hinge it was just 2 parts and then you would have your buttons things inside i think sometimes the remotes of too many buttons as simple as possible as few as it was inside as possible and then there was the idea for just something maybe if it had like some kind of light or something or lights around it it is looking a bit like something out of star wars at the moment to be fair but yeah that was just a sort of simple idea i had and then you know you could feel out about it would almost be likable so that was just the idea i had i do not have anybody else is other ideas right one problem you would get with this design is the ball is a nice idea because of its stability but of course since it is a ball it will roll so we would have to have it flat on the side of the east down here somewhere take away that part that is one of the big issues also you risk the hinges here yeah that is a problem the idea they did not have necessarily be a hinge that was just one idea that is interesting of course but that is of course a weak point yeah how would we go about making you know getting rid of our weak points what i mean but we just have a flat spot on the bottom of the ball not to put you on the spot but what did you say your title was again i am the industrial designer the industrial designer so well the point is that well maybe i do not know the shape is perhaps not the most ideal okay as stable as it is there must be a compromise between stability and design here i mean i am trying to think of like the design of others i can not think of anything other than the long rectangle for remote maybe smaller sort of fatter ones but there is nothing being done sort of out of it is not new it is not innovative it is you know everybody does long remote because it is easy it is it is stable okay i will draw something so if no go ahead my idea was just to have it be kind of like a keyboard type shape you know like video games so but maybe i mean that would be kind of big and bulky we could also try to do the hinge thing so it could like flip out that way i do not know i think definitely doing something different yeah it is a good idea i mean very designed something that is sort of like where i suppose not everybody is hands the same everybody is hands the same but something that would just maybe fit in the hand easier something with a grip yeah with a grip yeah because even i suppose even with the ball you still might be harder it might not be the easiest to hold on to so perhaps the joystick the joystick the keyboard idea might work better but then again people like to use one hand to flip and one hand to hold their soda so maybe yeah the thing it is definitely got to be a one handed a one handed job i feel like i am just shooting everything down here you are the boss you are allowed to well with a one handed design you also have a in front of the size as you know from cell phones they can not be too small yeah the remote is too small if it is small it probably looks better but it may not be as functional okay so fortunately we have got about 5 minutes here to come up with our remote control idea and start rolling with it we have talked about our experiences with remote control and we have got a couple of ideas let us see here what if we had not only say we went with the ball ball function but maybe we give it sort of grips along the side to make it easier to hold on to so you know so it is easier to hold on to that way of then remove some of our ball unless this part were raised so say the cover flips over and covers that part so the grip is no that would not work either but if we are going to make it flat on the bottom then that eliminates our ball anyways so if it were flat on the bottom on the bottom and then had the sort of grips on the side here i guess and then we have the problem with the hinge so if we are flat on the bottom it is not going to roll away it will stay where we want the question is also i do not know do you really always want to open that thing when you have to use it that is true it is probably going to lie around opened all the time anyway so i do not know if a lid is a good idea from a stability point of view it certainly is but also you have to face it and take into account the more of these things break by accident the more we sell so we do not have it flip open we just have a ball but then maybe go back to the something along those things then okay so then we forget the ball it looks cool it looks cool but it is really not functional so we have got our sort of keyboard kind what if we flipped it around here flipped it around here so that it were sorry that does not look anything like what you had there so it is up and down you hold it this way of course then it is like the rectangular again only with a couple of jutting out points but it is one handed question is what makes those game pads functional i think that is pretty much the form for the hand so it is a round shape underneath that makes it comfy yeah makes it nice so that is the essential part except for that i think we will probably not get away from some longer design right because you also have to know which way around to point this thing yeah because it does not have a cord like joysticks do batteries go weak as well so after a while you have to point it towards the equipment you want to control with it right to show which is the front which is the back is it possible to have it to where it would work with like a sensor on either side so that either way you are pointing it it would work of course the more technology you stick in that the more cost more expensive so what you can do okay i mean of course it will be evident after a while if you look at it it will be evident which way around to point it since you have the numbers and the buttons and stuff but it is rather about an instinctual thing you just grab it you and have to just look at it you know which way around you point it otherwise the design of the point of putting 2 sensors on both sides would probably work even if you designed it in a way that is not a rectangle but still pointed in a direction that had a definite point so that is your thing you get something like that instead and there you can know which way you are going to be pointing it okay sorry to interrupt but we have a warning are we out of time okay well just to finish up should we go with this plan are good ideas what are not what is it say for that what is it say for next meeting i think finish now so and then marketing will look and see what people want all right okay the project manager will design a better meeting for the next time around be a little bit more prepared and all right good meeting