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  Ofelia Staton: Okay. So, this is uh first meeting of design project. Um and I um like to show you the agenda for the meeting, I don't know if it was sent round to all of you.
  Faye Steinman: Mm, yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: Maybe
  Faye Steinman: I
  Ofelia Staton: not.
  Faye Steinman: receive
  Ofelia Staton: Anyway,
  Faye Steinman: it.
  Ofelia Staton: this is the the plan for today's meeting is um firstly just to introduce the project briefly, um although I'm sure you've actually got some of the information already. Then the main purpose is to so that we get to know each other a little bit more.
  Nancy Knapp: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: Um then we practice using some of the tools that we'll be using during the the course of the design project and the meetings um specifically the whiteboard over there. Um then we need to go through the specifics of our project plan um and discuss come up with some preliminary ideas about it. And then that's it. So we've got twenty five minutes to do that, that's until eleven twenty five. S so any
  Nancy Knapp: so sh.
  Ofelia Staton: any questions? Is i
  Faye Steinman: Not at this point.
  Ofelia Staton: not at this point. So this is our project. What we're aiming to do is to create a new remote control for a television. Um 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.
  Ofelia Staton: The method that we're going to use to complete the project, that has three components as such. There's the functional design of the the remote control. 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. Um 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. Um and then the detailed design will come after that. We'll pull it all together.
  Nancy Knapp: I'm a bit confused about uh what's the difference between the functional design and conceptual design? Uh i is it just uh more detail, uh as I understand it?
  Ofelia Staton: I think it th w we're talking the the functional design is more your um area of things where you'll be we want to look at what functions we need in the remote control and
  Nancy Knapp: Right.
  Ofelia Staton: what what specific things it it has to do but the conceptual design is um perhaps bigger than that and includes the
  Nancy Knapp: How
  Ofelia Staton: how people
  Nancy Knapp: how
  Ofelia Staton: are going
  Nancy Knapp: it
  Ofelia Staton: to
  Nancy Knapp: will
  Ofelia Staton: use
  Nancy Knapp: be done.
  Ofelia Staton: it and and that kind of thing.
  Nancy Knapp: So whe where do we identify the components of our uh product? Uh 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?
  Ofelia Staton: Um I think we'll we'll start that initially with the functional design
  Nancy Knapp: Okay.
  Ofelia Staton: already but then yeah. Okay, so that's just a brief overview of the p the the project itself. Um 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.
  Nancy Knapp: Hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: 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.
  Jewel Stovall: Why are you looking at Jewel Stovall?
  Ofelia Staton: Would you like to go first?
  Jewel Stovall: Do I have a choice? Okay. Ooh ooh,
  Ofelia Staton: Oh,
  Jewel Stovall: things falling everywhere.
  Ofelia Staton: yeah,
  Jewel Stovall: Right, okay.
  Ofelia Staton: p put them in pockets.
  Jewel Stovall: Cool.
  Ofelia Staton: You
  Jewel Stovall: Okay.
  Ofelia Staton: don't have to hurry, we've got plenty of time.
  Jewel Stovall: So, my name's Cat and I'm really not very good at this whole drawing malarkey so um
  Jewel Stovall: Okay.
  Ofelia Staton: It's got no eyes.
  Jewel Stovall: Oh, good point. Ah, the eyes always ruin it. Right. Okay, what do it's eyes like?
  Jewel Stovall: Okay, cool. Um this is a rabbit.
  Ofelia Staton: I thought it might be a cat.
  Faye Steinman: Yeah well origi uh at first I thought it was going to be cat.
  Jewel Stovall: Yeah, I don't think it's furry enough,
  Faye Steinman: Yeah
  Jewel Stovall: make
  Faye Steinman: now
  Jewel Stovall: it a
  Faye Steinman: I
  Jewel Stovall: fluffy
  Faye Steinman: now
  Jewel Stovall: rabbit.
  Faye Steinman: I understand now, yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah I can see by the ears.
  Faye Steinman: Yeah.
  Jewel Stovall: Okay, right, it's a fluffy rabbit, blue. Rabbits don't come in blue but you know. Um okay and I like it because it's small
  Ofelia Staton: Mm.
  Jewel Stovall: and it's fluffy. And one day you'll be able to getical genetically modify them and they will come in pink.
  Faye Steinman: Ah.
  Jewel Stovall: Okay?
  Ofelia Staton: Excellent,
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Ofelia Staton: and what's your what's your role within the team?
  Jewel Stovall: I am the um I need my notebook, mm ooh top banana. Thank you. Okay, cool, I am Jewel Stovall um 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, um
  Nancy Knapp: Mm-hmm.
  Jewel Stovall: trend watching in the conceptual design and product evad-valuation in the detailed design
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Nancy Knapp: Okay.
  Jewel Stovall: um so yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: And more
  Nancy Knapp: 'Kay.
  Ofelia Staton: about yourself, you're from?
  Jewel Stovall: Um I'm from Leicester,
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Jewel Stovall: um second year. Um what else do you want to know? I like sports um yeah, aerobics, kickboxing, spinning um and uh
  Ofelia Staton: But not with rabbits.
  Jewel Stovall: not with rabbits, no
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Jewel Stovall: no. And vets, I like vets as well. And yeah um and I like cocktails, especially pink ones. Okay?
  Nancy Knapp: Cool.
  Ofelia Staton: Excellent,
  Jewel Stovall: Cool.
  Ofelia Staton: to match the rabbit.
  Faye Steinman: Okay. Um so my name is Maarika. Where's the pen? Okay.
  Ofelia Staton: There's a an if you have not enough room there's an eraser there and you can rub
  Faye Steinman: Yeah,
  Ofelia Staton: it off.
  Faye Steinman: well, or I can make it smaller. Uh so um um I'm the Interface Designer in this project and my favourite animal I, m I mean I'm not so sure because I'm not so so very um familiar with all kinds of animals, but I do like dogs. Oh, sorry, maybe I should have shouldn't have said it beforehand but
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Faye Steinman: mm hmm. Um well, there are different kinds of dogs, but okay um.
  Nancy Knapp: That's not bad at
  Ofelia Staton: Ah
  Nancy Knapp: all.
  Ofelia Staton: it looks like a dog.
  Nancy Knapp: Yep.
  Faye Steinman: Okay.
  Jewel Stovall: Is a bit more impressive than my rabbit. I think it needs four legs if it's gonna walk though.
  Faye Steinman: Yeah, maybe it has some colourful patches, yeah. Um
  Ofelia Staton: the other
  Faye Steinman: yeah
  Ofelia Staton: legs
  Faye Steinman: and
  Ofelia Staton: are on the other
  Faye Steinman: I
  Ofelia Staton: side.
  Faye Steinman: do like dogs because they are good friends to people and they are loyal. Mm, well that's compared to some other animals like cats. Um they're really much more fun because they are not so independent. Um yeah maybe maybe the fact that they protect their home as well, yeah. Um what it has to do with with my role in the project is hard to say. Uh I hope to be loyal to the project and not to n not to um let people doing similar projects know the details of our project or something, yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: And where where are you from?
  Faye Steinman: I'm from Estonia uh,
  Ofelia Staton: Estonia.
  Faye Steinman: yep. Um so is there anything else you'd like to know? Oh, right, my roles, um so um in the different um stages of the design, so at first I will be responsible for um for yeah, designing the technical functions of the um um of the remote control uh then in the in the conceptual design stage I need to um come up with uh interface concept and then in the last um stage I will be responsible for the int infa for the user interface design. Okay,
  Nancy Knapp: Thank you.
  Faye Steinman: that's it.
  Nancy Knapp: Okay um I'll do some I'll rub the features and let the drawing stay. 'Kay um my name is Gaurav. Um my favourite animal one of my favourite animals is a cow. I've got no idea how to draw a cow.
  Ofelia Staton: Good luck.
  Nancy Knapp: Uh this is going to be
  Jewel Stovall: They're not just like a big round body and then some really skinny legs and then just
  Nancy Knapp: Yeah,
  Jewel Stovall: some
  Nancy Knapp: that'll
  Jewel Stovall: horns.
  Nancy Knapp: do. Okay, so let let Jewel Stovall draw the body first.
  Ofelia Staton: Mm.
  Nancy Knapp: Big, round body, really skinny legs and they've got a long tail and a long face.
  Ofelia Staton: It's eating.
  Jewel Stovall: It looks like Eeyore.
  Nancy Knapp: And there is some grass there.
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah.
  Nancy Knapp: So this is what I like about cows that
  Jewel Stovall: Horns,
  Nancy Knapp: they just keeps
  Jewel Stovall: draw some
  Nancy Knapp: sitting
  Jewel Stovall: horns.
  Nancy Knapp: there eating grass, they do not disturb anybody um they're kind of Buddhist in a way. So yeah, I like cows. Um my my role in the project is um uh Nancy Knapp, so I'm supposed to design all the details of of the product um ho how it works and whatever it'll mm take during the functional role, what are the various functions that have to be performed by it uh during the um conceptual design, what are the various components of it and um finally, I'm not too sure what was the last part. Um the detailed design, I I guess it will again be the identification of the components and how they integrate with each other. Um I'm from India. Uh I'm doing my P_H_D_ in Psycholinguistics, I sit at the Department of Psychology. Yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: Excellent.
  Nancy Knapp: Thank you.
  Faye Steinman: Thanks.
  Ofelia Staton: Right, now now it's my turn obviously.
  Ofelia Staton: Okay,
  Nancy Knapp: That doesn't
  Ofelia Staton: here's
  Nancy Knapp: look
  Ofelia Staton: a space.
  Nancy Knapp: like a cow, does
  Faye Steinman: It
  Nancy Knapp: it?
  Faye Steinman: looks very very cute.
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah, I like the cow. I'm
  Faye Steinman: Yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: Jen.
  Faye Steinman: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: Um I like dogs too, but I can't do that already because I can't draw a dog as well as you can. I like Mm.
  Jewel Stovall: Is that a lizard?
  Nancy Knapp: No way.
  Ofelia Staton: Hmm.
  Faye Steinman: Wow.
  Ofelia Staton: It's a gecko.
  Faye Steinman: Ah,
  Nancy Knapp: Ah
  Faye Steinman: a gecko,
  Nancy Knapp: okay.
  Faye Steinman: okay.
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah.
  Jewel Stovall: Is there a difference?
  Faye Steinman: Is a ar
  Ofelia Staton: They're
  Faye Steinman: are they also like lizards or are they
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah,
  Faye Steinman: yeah,
  Ofelia Staton: they're l
  Faye Steinman: they
  Ofelia Staton: it's
  Faye Steinman: are
  Ofelia Staton: a kind of lizard.
  Faye Steinman: mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: And I I like geckos because they remind Jewel Stovall of warm places
  Faye Steinman: Ah.
  Ofelia Staton: and,
  Nancy Knapp: Uh-huh.
  Ofelia Staton: and where I was living in Cambodia they used to live in my house and they were on the ceiling and they would make little gecko noises
  Faye Steinman: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: in
  Faye Steinman: I hope
  Ofelia Staton: the
  Faye Steinman: you
  Ofelia Staton: evening.
  Faye Steinman: don't like snakes, do you?
  Ofelia Staton: I don't like snakes. I come
  Faye Steinman: Okay.
  Ofelia Staton: from Australia and we have nasty snakes.
  Faye Steinman: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: That's where I'm from, Australia. I'm from Melbourne and I'm your Project Manager for today and
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Ofelia Staton: 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.
  Faye Steinman: Wonderful.
  Ofelia Staton: Okay.
  Nancy Knapp: Thank you.
  Ofelia Staton: So, let's see what's next in the PowerPoint presentation. So,
  Jewel Stovall: If
  Ofelia Staton: I've
  Jewel Stovall: you
  Ofelia Staton: just
  Jewel Stovall: right
  Ofelia Staton: thought
  Jewel Stovall: click
  Ofelia Staton: yeah
  Jewel Stovall: on it
  Ofelia Staton: I've
  Jewel Stovall: you
  Ofelia Staton: just
  Jewel Stovall: can
  Ofelia Staton: thought about this that we could even put it much more professionally
  Nancy Knapp: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: as there we go. Okay, so this is the um overall budget for our project. We've got um we're planning to sell these remote controls for that means we've got five minutes. Um we're planning to sell the remote controls for twenty five Euros each. Um and with that we're aiming for a profit of fifty million Euros. And that's selling them on the international market, not just in the U_K_. Um 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.
  Ofelia Staton: So that's something to keep in mind while you're designing. Okay. Hmm. This is let Jewel Stovall just skip ahead to see that's the last thing, okay. We've only got a couple of minutes. Does anyone have any first ideas to bounce around about um what we're thinking of this
  Faye Steinman: Yep.
  Ofelia Staton: remote control?
  Faye Steinman: 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.
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm. I think that's probably something that w it's best if we take away with us, but if
  Nancy Knapp: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: we all have a think, when we go away from the meeting, what specific things could be um included in this remote control that that
  Nancy Knapp: I think uh
  Ofelia Staton: are out
  Nancy Knapp: i
  Ofelia Staton: of
  Nancy Knapp: in
  Ofelia Staton: the ordinary.
  Nancy Knapp: the beginning uh one thing was that was mentioned was that it should be mm trendy, user friendly and original so um I think your point is relevant as far as the originality is concerned, that we should provide some features that are quite unique
  Ofelia Staton: Something
  Nancy Knapp: to this.
  Ofelia Staton: something new.
  Jewel Stovall: Yeah, I was looking
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Jewel Stovall: at the website, 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.
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Jewel Stovall: So the motto is um we put the fashion in electronics and um so it's something that is sleek and stylish but it's still functional,
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Jewel Stovall: you know? 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.
  Ofelia Staton: Uh-huh.
  Nancy Knapp: Alright.
  Jewel Stovall: You know, so something heading towards that, so it's not overly I mean 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?
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Jewel Stovall: Okay.
  Ofelia Staton: So perhaps some sort of menu-based thing, or
  Jewel Stovall: Something that's a little less crowded than this, like
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Jewel Stovall: I mean you know, theoretically you can do all kinds of things with your T_V_, right?
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah.
  Jewel Stovall: But what do most people do? They turn it on, they watch
  Nancy Knapp: Yeah.
  Jewel Stovall: certain specified channels,
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah.
  Jewel Stovall: you know, and then they turn it off again.
  Nancy Knapp: There is a
  Jewel Stovall: Sometimes
  Nancy Knapp: lot of functionality
  Jewel Stovall: they play a movie.
  Nancy Knapp: in there that is not used ninety percent of the time,
  Jewel Stovall: Yeah,
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah.
  Nancy Knapp: but
  Jewel Stovall: so
  Nancy Knapp: will be used ten percent of the time,
  Jewel Stovall: there's no
  Ofelia Staton: So,
  Nancy Knapp: yeah.
  Jewel Stovall: need to have buttons on it to
  Ofelia Staton: no.
  Jewel Stovall: do that, maybe to
  Nancy Knapp: Yep.
  Jewel Stovall: do
  Ofelia Staton: It could be one button for a menu or something, if
  Jewel Stovall: Yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: you
  Faye Steinman: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: really
  Nancy Knapp: And
  Ofelia Staton: need
  Nancy Knapp: then
  Ofelia Staton: to go
  Nancy Knapp: use
  Ofelia Staton: and do
  Jewel Stovall: So,
  Nancy Knapp: the
  Ofelia Staton: that.
  Jewel Stovall: if you're the kind of sad case that knows how your remote control works, then you know
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Jewel Stovall: that's fine and you can do it on the screen rather than everybody else having to have those buttons, which just confuse them.
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Jewel Stovall: Hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: Excellent.
  Jewel Stovall: '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
  Ofelia Staton: Oh I
  Jewel Stovall: you
  Ofelia Staton: haven't
  Jewel Stovall: can put
  Ofelia Staton: had
  Jewel Stovall: it
  Ofelia Staton: a look
  Jewel Stovall: up on
  Ofelia Staton: yet,
  Jewel Stovall: the thing
  Ofelia Staton: yep.
  Jewel Stovall: um but it is just like a long like thing used for mu moving people, but it looks really pretty too.
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm. Great. Any other immediate thoughts
  Nancy Knapp: Mm.
  Ofelia Staton: before we move along?
  Nancy Knapp: Uh we can aim for I mean we can think about all these little things, but we can aim for something wi that gives a high battery life, although
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Nancy Knapp: I don't think that um it's a huge problem for remote controls anyway, battery life, uh every now and then you need to replace the batteries.
  Ofelia Staton: Yeah.
  Nancy Knapp: Um
  Faye Steinman: Yeah but
  Nancy Knapp: Hmm.
  Faye Steinman: uh I mean e even though it has to be re original we shouldn't uh go like too far away from from the usual ones, because otherwise
  Nancy Knapp: Yeah.
  Faye Steinman: the new users will just have a
  Nancy Knapp: A
  Faye Steinman: lot
  Nancy Knapp: big learning
  Faye Steinman: of problems
  Nancy Knapp: curve,
  Faye Steinman: with l
  Nancy Knapp: yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: Mm-hmm.
  Faye Steinman: learning, yeah, yeah.
  Nancy Knapp: Yeah. So, i it should kind of fit in as well, and
  Ofelia Staton: It's like
  Nancy Knapp: the
  Ofelia Staton: those fancy websites
  Nancy Knapp: stereotype of a
  Faye Steinman: Hm-hmm.
  Nancy Knapp: yeah.
  Ofelia Staton: that you can't access 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. Um 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,
  Nancy Knapp: Alright.
  Ofelia Staton: you're looking at the technical functions design, and for you it's the user requirements specification,
  Jewel Stovall: Mm-hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: like you said at the start. Okay?
  Faye Steinman: Okay.
  Ofelia Staton: Thanks for that.
  Faye Steinman: Thank you.
  Ofelia Staton: Uh I'll see you in half an hour.
  Faye Steinman: See you.
  Ofelia Staton: Carry the laptops back again.
  Nancy Knapp: Hmm.
  Ofelia Staton: Do we need to unplug things? Probably.
Updated Content: Ofelia Staton opens the meeting by going over the agenda. She explains the project, which is to create a new remote control for television that should be original, trendy, and user-friendly. The three components of completing the project will be functional, conceptual, and detailed design. They introduce themselves by going up to the white board and stating their name, role, drawing their favorite animal, and sharing their favorite characteristic about the animal. After they talk about their overall budget, they discuss what special features they want to include in this remote control that existing ones do not have. They discuss making a menu-based remote which would be less crowded with buttons and therefore stylish and sleek but functional. They end the meeting with Ofelia Staton going over the task each member is to complete before the next meeting.