 and I  like to show you the agenda for the meeting , I don't know if it was sent round to all of you . project manager: this is the the plan for today's meeting is  firstly just to introduce the project briefly ,  although I'm sure you've actually got some of the information already . project manager:  then we want to practice using some of the tools that we'll be using during the the course of the design project and the meetings ,  specifically the whiteboard over there .  then we need to go through the specifics of our project plan  and discuss come up with some preliminary ideas about it .  we want it to be something original , something trendy and also something user friendly , so it has to be quite intuitive that people are able to use this product . The method that we're going to use to complete the project , that has three components as such . We're going the way we'll do that I think is to to work individually initially and then come together for meetings to to work on that .  similarly with the conceptual design , we'll start off by working individually with our own expertise on our own laptops and then we'll bring what we've done together . industrial designer: I'm a bit confused about  what's the difference between the functional design and conceptual design ?  i is it just  more detail ,  as I understand it ? project manager: I think it th w we're talking the the functional design is more your  area of things where you'll be we want to look at what functions we need in the remote control industrial designer: Right . project manager: and what what specific things it it has to do industrial designer: project manager: but the conceptual design is  perhaps bigger than that and includes the how people are going to use it and and that kind of thing . So whe where do we identify the components of our  product ?  I think it's it's in the conceptual design phase that we identify the it's in the conceptual design phase that we identify the components of our product ? project manager:  I think we'll we'll start that initially with the functional design already but then industrial designer: Okay .  what I'd like us to do now is simultaneously introduce ourselves and start using some of the tools that we're using for for the project , specifically the whiteboard . project manager: So each person in turn , I'd like us to go up to the whiteboard , the pen's just underneath it there and draw your favourite animal and then tell everyone what the f your favourite characteristics of that animal are and while you're doing that tell us your name , what your role is and perhaps how your animal relates to the role that you're taking in this project . industrial designer: marketing: Why are you looking at me ? user interface: marketing: project manager: Would you like to go first ? marketing: Do I have a choice ? industrial designer: marketing: Okay . marketing: So , my name's Cat and I'm really not very good at this whole drawing malarkey industrial designer: project manager: marketing: so  user interface: marketing: Okay . industrial designer: project manager: marketing: Yeah , I don't think it's furry enough , so we'll make it a fluffy rabbit . industrial designer: marketing:  okay and I like it because it's small and it's fluffy . industrial designer: user interface: marketing: And one day you'll be able to getical genetically modify them and they will come in pink . project manager: Excellent , and what's your what's your role within the team ? marketing: I am the  I need my notebook ,  ooh industrial designer: marketing: top banana . Okay , cool , I am the Marketing Expert  so like I'm gonna be doing the apparently according to the little guy in the computer that knows everything the user g requirements specification of the functional design ,  trend watching in the conceptual design and product evad-valuation in the detailed design project manager: industrial designer: project manager: And more about yourself , you're from ? marketing:  I'm from Leicester , project manager:  what else do you want to know ? industrial designer: marketing: I like sports  yeah , aerobics , kickboxing , spinning project manager: marketing:  and  project manager: But not with rabbits . project manager: There's a an if you have not enough room there's an eraser there and you can rub it off .  so   I'm the Interface Designer in this project and my favourite animal , I m  I'm not so sure because I'm not so so very  familiar with all kinds of animals , but I do like dogs . project manager: user interface: Oh , sorry , maybe I should have shouldn't have said it beforehand but industrial designer:  . project manager: industrial designer: marketing: user interface:  well , there are different kinds of dogs , but okay  . user interface:  yeah and I do like dogs because they are good friends to people and they are loyal . project manager: user interface:  yeah maybe maybe the fact that they protect their home as well , yeah . project manager: user interface:  I hope to be loyal to the project industrial designer: marketing: user interface: and not to n not to  let people doing similar projects know the details of our project or something , yeah . industrial designer: project manager: And where where are you from ? user interface: I'm from Estonia project manager: Estonia .  so is there anything else you'd like to know ? Oh , right , my roles , industrial designer: . user interface:  so  in the different  stages of the design , so at first I will be responsible for  for yeah , designing the technical functions of the   of the remote control  then in the in the conceptual design stage I need to  come up with  interface concept and then in the last  stage I will be responsible for the int infa for the user interface design . Okay  I'll do some I'll rub the features project manager: industrial designer: and let the drawing stay . user interface: industrial designer:  this is going to be marketing: They're not just like a big round body and then some really skinny legs industrial designer: Yeah , that'll do . industrial designer: Big , round body , really skinny legs marketing: project manager: industrial designer: and they've got a long tail marketing: industrial designer: and a long face . industrial designer: So this is what I like about cows marketing: Horns , project manager: user interface: industrial designer: that they just keeps sitting there eating grass , marketing: draw some horns . industrial designer: they do not disturb anybody  marketing: project manager: industrial designer: they're kind of Buddhist in a way .  my my role in the project is   the industrial designer , so I'm supposed to design all the details of of the product  ho how it works and whatever it'll  take during the functional role , what are the various functions that have to be performed by it  during the  conceptual design , what are the various components of it and  finally , I'm not too sure what was the last part .  the detailed design , I I guess it will again be the identification of the components and how they integrate with each other .  I'm doing my P_H_D_ in Psycholinguistics , I sit at the Department of Psychology . industrial designer: That doesn't look like a cow , does it ? project manager: Okay , here's a space . project manager:  I like dogs too , but I can't do that already because I can't draw a dog as well as you can . marketing: Is there a difference ? user interface: Is a ar are they also like lizards or are they project manager: They're Yeah , they're l it's a kind of lizard . user interface: yeah , they are project manager: And I I like geckos user interface: project manager: and , and where I was living in Cambodia they used to live in my house user interface: Ah . marketing: project manager: and they were on the ceiling and they would make little gecko noises in the evening . industrial designer: user interface: I hope you don't like snakes , do you ? project manager: I don't like snakes . project manager: I'm from Melbourne and I'm your Project Manager for today industrial designer:  . project manager: and my role is basically to keep things going and make sure that you all work together in a productive way , so that by the end of the day we come up with a great product . So , I've just thought marketing: If you right click on it you can project manager: yeah I've just thought about this that we could even put it much more professionally as marketing: industrial designer: We've got  we're planning to sell these remote controls for let's make that go away , that means we've got five minutes .  so to do that our finance people estimate that we need production costs of maximum twelve and a half Euro so that we can reach that profit target . Does anyone have any first ideas to bounce around about  what we're thinking of this remote control ? user interface: Yep . I'm just wondering whether whether there is like any special feature that we want to have w want this remote control have as opposed to the already existing ones . I think that's probably something that w it's best if we take away with us , industrial designer: project manager: but if we all have a think , when we go away from the meeting , what specific things could be  included in this remote control that that are out of the ordinary . industrial designer: I think  i in the beginning  one thing was that was mentioned was that it should be  trendy , user friendly and original so  I think your point is relevant as far as the originality is concerned , that we should provide some features that are quite unique to this . marketing: and the other things that they've made and I like put down some like inspirational words like that I got from looking at the pictures . marketing: and  so it's something that is sleek and stylish but it's still functional , you know ? project manager: marketing: So I'm kind of thinking , you know like those phones that they have , the new generation ones , where they don't actually have any buttons on them and stuff like that . marketing: You know , so something heading towards that , so it's not overly  I don't know what h most of the buttons do on my remote controls , so I figure how many do you need , you know ? project manager: project manager: So perhaps some sort of menu-based thing , or industrial designer: marketing: Something that's a little less crowded than this , like  you know , theoretically you can do all kinds of things with your T_V_ , right ? project manager: marketing: They turn it on , they watch certain specified channels , you know , and then they turn it off again . industrial designer: There is a lot of functionality in there that is not used ninety percent of the time , marketing: Sometimes they play a movie . marketing: there's no need to have buttons on it to do that , project manager: So , no . project manager: It could be one button for a menu or something , if you really need to go and do that . marketing: So , if you're the kind of sad case that knows how your remote control works , then you know that's fine project manager: industrial designer:  . marketing: and you can do it on the screen rather than everybody else having to have those buttons , which just confuse them . marketing: 'Cause like if you look at the train , it's just very like , there's no extra bits on it , the train on the website and I dunno if you can put it up on the thing project manager: Oh I haven't had a look yet , yep . marketing:  but it is just like a long like thing used for mu moving people , but it looks really pretty too .  we can aim for  we can think about all these little things , but we can aim for something wi that gives a high battery life , although I don't think that  it's a huge problem for remote controls anyway , battery life , project manager: user interface: Yeah but   e even though it has to be re original we shouldn't  go like too far away from from the usual ones , because otherwise the new users will just have a lot of problems industrial designer: Yeah . So , i it should kind of fit in as well , and the stereotype of a project manager: It's like those fancy websites that you can't access industrial designer: yeah . project manager: because you have no idea how to get in , but the designers thought they were great . Okay , so we need to wrap it up now , so that we can go away and get on with some of this .  we've got another meeting in thirty minutes , so you're you'll be getting specific instructions once you go back to your workspace , but im basically you're looking at the working design , industrial designer: Alright . project manager: you're looking at the technical functions design , and for you it's the user requirements specification , marketing: - <doc-sep>user interface: But  we don't  we don't  we do think it's  well what if with ease of use , w which prefers the which the the customer of the user prefers . And after a while they start to develop  some skills in the the voice recognition functions , and then they will not use this dial as often . industrial designer: They n they need to understand what  how to change channels and  change the volume , so it's easier for them project manager: Could could I see the scroll bar as  as as a sort of shortcut ? A a and the voice recognition as well , industrial designer: Yeah , maybe so . Yes , it's project manager: th maybe you could  could  industrial designer: Well , it's it's it's another approach , it's more that our  . And and the case is is rubber ? industrial designer: Yes , rubber ? project manager: And the buttons ? user interface: Plastic or rubber . project manager: and  the colouring ? industrial designer:  yellow with  project manager: with with grey or black . project manager: Okay , user interface: project manager: we'll we'll come to that later . industrial designer: But marketing: Well , you could use two of them to programme the  channels on the two channel button , industrial designer: Yes , but it marketing: 'cause you have to assign two channel new channels . industrial designer: Or not ? project manager: M m but maybe you do want a programme button to  for example activate the voice recognition , or train the voice voice recognition . project manager: Yeah al although by pressing the button for I n don't know two , three seconds , you could also say it you'd disable it with a little beep and and industrial designer: Yes . project manager: Okay , well marketing: So  project manager: the then we'll switch to my presentation . project manager: Yeah , it's it's w way above   above the the the twelve Euro fifty . user interface: Why does the price and and the s oh , one  exa project manager: Yeah , the the price , the the number of items and the the sum .  if you would user interface: And and does it project manager: if you look at the  w w w what we could do to make it more  to make it just between the twelve Euro fifty ,  then I did the following changes . Twelve Euro forty cents I came up with by leaving out the solar cells ,  by not using the voice recognition feature , industrial designer: project manager: I I guess if we leave the if we leave this one out ,  user interface: So the button we can use plastic . user interface: And the pla  And a plastic b just plastic buttons , a plas  instead of rubber . industrial designer: Well , b basically it when when this is our only option , we should even consider changing the casing , because I think there's very little added value in  an enhanced case with these dull functions . Maybe we should look at an  focus on another  industrial designer: So Type of m maybe another market segment . project manager: Yeah , m  maybe not not all that fancy , but just way way more easy    basic industrial designer: Yeah . Although I think we yeah , but we could still make  a remote control that ap   applies  more to young people  by giving it another colour already . project manager:  so it is possible to make   a device that attracts a little bit more to young people . industrial designer: Well , maybe it's good to do it anyway , because if we evaluate it , we we can also determine if our objectives are good . industrial designer: So project manager: Well industrial designer: Is it fancy ? project manager: I d it is it is marketing:  industrial designer: marketing: Yay . industrial designer:  I think  I think it would have been more fancy if we used the titanium housing the casing . It would be even more project manager: You like tita user interface: industrial designer: oh , you really like titanium .  user interface: project manager: Yeah , I know , marketing: Is it  project manager: but but it but that's fancy in the way   fancy has has a lot of industrial designer: It has to do with fashion , I guess . user interface: It's trendy trendy , fun industrial designer: So do marketing: And w user interface: yeah . user interface: It's not the ultimate  fancy two , but industrial designer: I think I th I think it would have been I would have think  it could have been more fancy by using the double-curved case . It would have been even more fancy , but we decided not to , because if we use a double-curved case , we could not use solar . user interface: Yeah , but that's sti that's  industrial designer: So user interface: Looking at the user  needs , we only  don't we don't have the double-curved case . marketing: Okay , and  was it innovative ? user interface: project manager: Well , marketing: project manager: with the voice recognition feature and  user interface: But that's not in it . It could have been a little bit more innovative u by using the kinetic  energy source , but it's it's way too marketing: Yeah , and  project manager: That would have been a thrill . industrial designer: yes , but marketing: So  also a  two ? industrial designer: I think  it's a two . industrial designer: marketing: user interface: Well yeah , the voice recognition of course is hard to learn , I think . When you have a more advanced , elaborate user , well , such a user really would like to explore all these additional functions . industrial designer: So  It's maybe it's not very  easy for user interface: Wouldn't give it more .  two or three ? Three ? Wha wh what would be your guess ?  ease of use  does not only apply to the most basic functions . You're right in that , but I I guess  an advanced user will will find the voice recognition function easy to use , project manager: Yeah . project manager: So I could make it e easy ? user interface: If you make it a four it will be three in general . Three ? marketing: Yeah , industrial designer: Two ? marketing: two , two , three project manager: No , user interface: And a three ? project manager: I haven't said anything yet . project manager: Okay , but if I would say a three , then it's six , and four is ten . industrial designer: That's not even project manager: Does it will so it will be a two point five . marketing: industrial designer: But that's not possible to fill in , project manager: Yes , it is . It's not about the content , it's about okay ,  is it easy to f Yeah , definitely . user interface: we haven't re  re  really worked it out , but you c you can you can just say find and he repeats find . user interface: Yeah , but that's the that's the the basic idea of the the speaker  industrial designer: Yes . Maybe you have to  programme it once , so to that l respond to  a certain word or a certain sentence , something like where are you , and then it will sing I'm here . marketing: project manager: Well , I  industrial designer: So , I th project manager: we should not  stay too long on this subject  because of the time , but I personally give it a one . There are cases  in which the outside casing is  can be  how d how do you prono is is moldable . user interface: Was it one of our options ? industrial designer: No , it's not one of our option , marketing: No .  project manager: No okay , but but user interface: So , in the in industrial designer: but when you look in the market , when you look marketing: this this was a most spongy option . industrial designer: but that's not that's not  what they are talking about , I think . user interface: But I think in this case in this case we've done the best we could . industrial designer: Yes , but it's not good enough , project manager: I'll give it a one . industrial designer: You take one ? What do you give it ? marketing: Well yeah , it depends , 'cause it's the most spongy we could project manager: Yeah , I know , but you have to name a fig  a number .  I'll I'll change it , I'll make it m my my mark will be a four . user interface: project manager: Well , Ruud , what what do you think about it ? marketing: Well , the basic layout doesn't offem offer much , but the voice recognition could add a lot . project manager: What what we didn't talk about is   user interface: Yeah , but it ha doesn't has the digits . I believe it's If you  ask yourself it offers enough features , I don't I don't think it is it has all the features  a normal remote has . Bec because you can  we didn't talk about it , but you do have  remote controls that are able to adapt another signal . project manager: you place a a regular  remote control in front of the other one , hit the one or the two or the three , whatever , and it r records the  the  the the signals . project manager: So you could    enter any comment you like , as long it's able to as long as our device is able to reproduce the infrared signal . But that that's its power , I guess , because  a regular programmable  remote control contains , well ,  really a lot of buttons . marketing:  I think think a one , 'cause v with a voice recognition you could add anything you want , so that's like  industrial designer: Yes . I I've I think we've  succe succeed in in developing a product that's actually quite good , but not for this kind of market , and not for this kind of price . project manager: The product is is is  b high qua  has a high quality and and is  advanced . But whether or not our clients are are  willing to pay twenty five Euros for this kind of device is doub is well , is not sure . user interface: But we could couldn't  what what's the selling price ? Fifty ? project manager: Twenty five Euros . industrial designer: That's quite ex user interface: That's price , but w w industrial designer: well , it's not it's not very expensive for a remote control that that has this functionality . An original remote control of any T_V_ kind ,  a Phillips remote control , y you pay  industrial designer: Yes , it's more than fifty Euros . user interface: Yeah , I kn I know  from a few years ago , it it it costed hundred Gilders . project manager: Bu but well yeah , I know , but you're paying for th for the brand , because there are  remote controls which control your stereo , television , D_V_D_ , C_D_ player , for under twenty five Euros . industrial designer: And it's easier to use because those  remote controls don't offer voice recognition project manager: .  What did you think about  the process , the project process ? Ruud ? marketing: industrial designer: marketing: project manager: Try to translate that . project manager: Any any other  , Roo ? user interface: Yeah , I think  industrial designer: Well , I think marketing: Ye project manager: Roo . industrial designer: So And   the the the well , looking at room for creativity , there was w way too the the choice of components was way too narrow . industrial designer: So there was not really a process of  project manager: So we could we we could be we could've been creative . industrial designer: We we thought of possibilities who are not possible  with the the current  offer of  manufacturing components . project manager: Okay , Roo ? Any other thoughts on that ? user interface: No , no . project manager: I think so too , it's it's it's  of course a laboratory environment . So  user interface: marketing: project manager: Yeah , but but si  w w w when taken in account the the situation ,  I think we performed pretty well . project manager: Because of the response industrial designer: It it's project manager: or user interface: Response industrial designer: The response is very slow user interface: and industrial designer: and the possibilities are very limited . The p the pointing of the pen is not  the place where it it writes its   where it  marketing: Draws . project manager: Okay , so user interface: So  project manager: it it had to be  better aligned , or what's the word ? user interface: You to take in account that your you m project manager:  yeah . user interface: It's too slow project manager: It it was calibrated just before this meeting . industrial designer: It is ? project manager: So  it's not the calibration , industrial designer: Okay . project manager:  Ruud , w  did you use the pen a lot ? Or not at all ? marketing: No . user interface: If it has O_C_R_ ,  I think  I would use , but  I I just  took notes for myself and and and that's it . user interface: So industrial designer: But I think it's a great solution for  for  a known problem ,  writing down some notes , some some inf  information , and then  forgetting your notebook somewhere and losing all that information . industrial designer: Because you have everything in one place and it's quite easy quite easy it's it's possible to make this information digital and share it with others in a quite easy way .  What w  Ruud , what did you think about the SMARTboards ? marketing: Oh , I only use it to draw a rabbit , project manager: Yeah . I think that would be very easy if you could say okay , I want to use this for my own work or my own presentation further on or user interface: Yeah . project manager: Or the other way around , that you could show but m industrial designer: Yes , yes . project manager: I know , but user interface: So it's almost project manager: I know , but we couldn't use that feature , user interface: yeah . industrial designer: And and  w you were when you're using  Windows , you're used to a certain interface and certain buttons ,  which you can use for drawing . industrial designer: user interface: industrial designer:  we're done , we're finished , I believe . Thank you for your industrial designer: But  how much time did we get for this meeting ? project manager: Forty minutes . project manager: So , we can  redesign our   I would like to industrial designer: Well , I think we we we all know what the redesign should be . industrial designer: No , it's it's just the same product that is already on the market <doc-sep>Welcome to the what should be the last of these meetings and  it looks like we've  done a good job here and  we'll just go through the the final  the final details .  okay , oh the  th the the minutes of the last meeting  I think we'll take those as read ,  Okay industrial designer: project manager: the  th the the next  thing we we we'll have a look at the  th have a look at the prototypes and  look at the  evaluation criteria and finance and then   just tidy up with production and  and then we can close . industrial designer:  okay we basically have the same kinda lay-out here it's just  you hold it like this and it gets kinda moulded to the to the shape of your hand , basically .  on the left we've got the scroll for the volume , on the right we have buttons for the channels up and down and that kinda so you can hold it and scroll , or you can hold it and and push . project manager: industrial designer:  this is the power key ,  it's kinda like the biggest so you know how to turn on . This is the infra-red section so you g it'll be sending rays and if you're you know pointing it like that it can send it , project manager: Yep , industrial designer: or if you hold it up like that it'll send it . industrial designer: so you can you know talk to it like that project manager: Yep , industrial designer: and it'll still understand . industrial designer: and has the cover on it user interface: S industrial designer: and you can see like it just kinda goes the red bit's the cover and it kinda goes over everything project manager: Yep , yep , industrial designer: and then there's holes for the buttons to come through . user interface: And so we figured it would be kind of you know a light weight plastic , project manager: -huh . user interface: and then the covers will be that sort of rubbery material like they make iPod covers , project manager: showing me age , user interface: so they kinda just stretch over . user interface: I I didn't know that but yeah they're kind of it's just kind of a rubbery project manager: -huh . user interface: and that way you know project manager: Okay , user interface: spongy like is something that people wanted project manager: yep , right . user interface: and that way I think probably helps protect it a little bit too as well project manager: Okay . industrial designer: But it's also e e easier to put on versus like mobile covers user interface: and industrial designer: you actually have to screw them on and stuff and you kinda sometimes have to get someone to do that for you . user interface: and then the buttons come through and so and then the each one of 'em on the very end will have the logo with the yellow circle and the R_R_ . project manager:  tha it's it's a detailed point , I just wondered  h how will people put these down I wonder ? user interface: Like that . Okay for some strange re reason I had it in my mind that they'd put them down vertically industrial designer: Yeah it could stand , yeah . industrial designer: Well we could broaden the broaden it out a bit project manager: Yeah ,  no industrial designer: so it would stand like that . project manager: because particularly if they've dif if they're gonna have it as a you know as a fashion item industrial designer: Yeah , standing . project manager:   it it's  it it's just  it's just a minor detailed point , but  as you say you can just make the base a little bit bigger and  industrial designer: Yeah , we could just widen it out  project manager: Yeah and  it just needs another  another logo somewhere is is is is all it gives gives people the option and if if say if they've got them  industrial designer:  . project manager: because actually have several upon the  marketing: Could have one for your stereo , one for your D_V_ player . industrial designer: Have to if we just lengthen it I guess project manager: Yeah industrial designer: so it comes down to the base of the hand user interface: Yeah , project manager: but that that's  but  user interface: just kind of industrial designer: and then flatten it out project manager: no industrial designer: and could sit there . user interface: Somewhere like that project manager: no no ,  that's these  user interface: so it just sort of industrial designer: We might have to lengthen it marketing: Yeah I kinda had a a kinda a natural kind of a idea industrial designer: so it kinda your hand still holds it and have it there , user interface: Yeah . marketing: where it's like more of a kind of like a kinda maybe slightly like thinner , user interface: Bu project manager: Yeah . marketing: yeah , kinda like that kinda like a flower or a plant project manager: But  yeah but no th but the yeah the the the industrial designer:  . project manager: Yeah , yeah , yeah , industrial designer: The final product would actually stand up , yeah . project manager: I think the  the basic concept i i is is absolutely bang on industrial designer: Yeah . project manager: and the i industrial designer: Wee project manager: it certainly meets our criteria of being  of you know looking different . industrial designer: project manager:  right let us  What's on the next one ? Oh right yes , let's have a look at the  f finance .  , now we're given a a clear design brief ,  if I get the  spreadsheet up . Good , this is why we need to make these things simple so that the  the the the boss can understand . industrial designer: user interface: marketing: project manager: Now I've  this is the company's   costing for for various   aspects of design and I I I've treated some of these slightly  liberally given the constraints placed on us ,  I wouldn't know for in for instance if if they require us to have it in the corporate colours , then that is not a special colour , that's a that's a standard colour .  , so we're just simply on batteries , the the one th the one decision I've had to make is that  we're we will have to find a s a regular standard chip to to do this with and I I  I'm I'm I'm certain that they they are around so ,  that I don't think is a a serious problem . The  the the voice sensor is is expensive but we we made a a basic decision that that was absolutely fundamental to the to the design so that that has to stay .  then again the the the the shape of the case means that it's it's expensive to   l to make 'cause of the the th the double curves but on the other hand because of our overall fashion concept  we we should exceed the the sales targets .  it's simply made of plastic so th that's  that's no problem and   just because the whole the colour of the the whole thing that's   there's some cost there .  and  we haven't actually got a scroll wheel we we we got push buttons and and a simple   slider so  and the and the the buttons are   well I do don't know that they're special colour . Anyway the the costings  come in at exactly on target at twelve point five  but I thi I think we have a a very strong case to argue that  what what we've got is is so in innovative and  and different that  any any slight compromise we have to make on on cost is is offset by the  you know the  you know the the the the concept of it being a a fashion accessory and and having the the interchangeable covers industrial designer:  . project manager: so   you know the if if if the management expect us to be techno again fail again technologically innovative  that they they have to accept that we we can't operate absolutely within  the constraints that they give , industrial designer:  . project manager: so  we we we present this as the  the company's  the the company's way forward and   I I think we can argue that we we have  come in on on budget . Does anybody want to   Andrew do you want what do you want to say about  the  yeah the evaluation marketing: Evaluation . project manager: where where you know well where where we're where where we're at ? marketing: The the product or the project ? project manager: The the the well the I meant the product . Method of evaluation testing the product was to just if it met all the criteria all the conditions that we set out to set out to solve , from the point of view of the the consumer and the management . So what I've been asked to do is , on the whiteboard project manager: marketing:  gauge our team response to these questions . And then at the end just take an average project manager: Tr On for true and seven for flase . marketing: Easy to use ? project manager: I don't see we could've made it any easier . And  , what else ? The R_S_I_ compares to the current standards , project manager: Less buttons so it must be . We we industrial designer: Yeah marketing:  yeah it was our it was a industrial designer: it is sorta the the handle more ergonomically correct as well . marketing:  will device appeal to all age groups ? project manager: I think it will because   old older people who can't manage the buttons anyway will actually probably like the like like the voice bit so industrial designer:  . Well we had the we had the data saying that old people will be less likely to pay extra money but the funct the increased functionality , the e ease of use of the device might make up for that . project manager: well I don't think we're actually charging a particular premium anyway , in the end , so industrial designer: I I I think it will tend to appeal more to younger aged groups marketing:  . industrial designer: and the younger people tend to would be more conscious of that aspect of it , but  I think it should still appeal on a certain level to everybody , yeah . project manager: It will appeal f for dif for different reasons but it's it's  industrial designer: Yeah , yeah . user interface: Yeah I think just the simplicity of it project manager: yeah yeah industrial designer: Yeah , yeah . user interface: and project manager: so I I yeah I user interface: not having to learn to programme industrial designer: Yeah . project manager: Yeah , so I think we can reasonably say it's another another one , industrial designer:  . marketing: project manager: why not ? industrial designer: user interface: marketing:  can you just click the my mouse to move onto next page ?  , yeah and what h did we make the management's project manager: in in in in my interpretation of management's instructions  is that yes it it meets the requirement industrial designer: project manager: is t it's television only , industrial designer: Yep . project manager:  it's it's it's within budget , user interface: Under the cost . project manager: coming up with what marketing: So  one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven . project manager: Before I  industrial designer: user interface: Ps I don't think so , project manager: No . user interface: and looked really at what the consumers wanted and what we were trying to make project manager: Yeah . user interface: and come to group consensus and project manager: Well that's right ,  th this this slide here  the satisfaction with  room for creativity ,  industrial designer:  . project manager: I think we've allowed ourselves  as much creativity as the  the the the product  allows . project manager:  I won't comment on leadership ,  teamwork I think we've  I think everybody's  worked pretty well together . project manager:  we've just about coped with the whiteboard and digital pens ,  I think the results speak for itself industrial designer:  . project manager: and new ideas found , again gi no given relatively everyday product , I think we've v very  very effectively come up with a a new  user interface: Yeah . Is the project evaluated ? We're we're all happy that it it meets all the criteria ,  industrial designer: Yep . project manager: Thank you very much indeed , I think that I think that's  industrial designer: Cool , thank you , user interface: Alright 
The team had mixed opinions on the remote control design. While Marketing found the basic layout to be dull, they praised the brilliant voice recognition feature. User Interface acknowledged that the remote lacked digits but had all the necessary features. The Industrial Designer reminded everyone that they could only design within their capacity. The Project Manager agreed that the remote was of high quality but had low acceptance. 

In terms of the battery design, the team wanted it to be long-lasting, original, and conventional to ensure innovation, versatility, and durability. They also wanted to avoid deviating too far from the usual performance to prevent issues for new users. 

User Interface suggested using a rubber cover that could stretch over the remote, and the Project Manager agreed, asking the Industrial Designer to explore this idea further.
Did the group find the remote control competitive in terms of evaluation criteria, battery design, and cover when discussing the functional design and prototype of the remote control?