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  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Jeffrey Reed: Mm, yeah.
  Kermit Gonzales: Maybe
  Jeffrey Reed: I
  Kermit Gonzales: not.
  Jeffrey Reed: receive
  Kermit Gonzales: Anyway,
  Jeffrey Reed: it.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Edward Drake: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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
  Edward Drake: so sh.
  Kermit Gonzales: any questions? Is i
  Jeffrey Reed: Not at this point.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Edward Drake: 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?
  Kermit Gonzales: 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
  Edward Drake: Right.
  Kermit Gonzales: what what specific things it it has to do but the conceptual design is um perhaps bigger than that and includes the
  Edward Drake: How
  Kermit Gonzales: how people
  Edward Drake: how
  Kermit Gonzales: are going
  Edward Drake: it
  Kermit Gonzales: to
  Edward Drake: will
  Kermit Gonzales: use
  Edward Drake: be done.
  Kermit Gonzales: it and and that kind of thing.
  Edward Drake: 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?
  Kermit Gonzales: Um I think we'll we'll start that initially with the functional design
  Edward Drake: Okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Edward Drake: Hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Phillip Costa: Why are you looking at Phillip Costa?
  Kermit Gonzales: Would you like to go first?
  Phillip Costa: Do I have a choice? Okay. Ooh ooh,
  Kermit Gonzales: Oh,
  Phillip Costa: things falling everywhere.
  Kermit Gonzales: yeah,
  Phillip Costa: Right, okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: p put them in pockets.
  Phillip Costa: Cool.
  Kermit Gonzales: You
  Phillip Costa: Okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: don't have to hurry, we've got plenty of time.
  Phillip Costa: So, my name's Cat and I'm really not very good at this whole drawing malarkey so um
  Phillip Costa: Okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: It's got no eyes.
  Phillip Costa: Oh, good point. Ah, the eyes always ruin it. Right. Okay, what do it's eyes like?
  Phillip Costa: Okay, cool. Um this is a rabbit.
  Kermit Gonzales: I thought it might be a cat.
  Jeffrey Reed: Yeah well origi uh at first I thought it was going to be cat.
  Phillip Costa: Yeah, I don't think it's furry enough,
  Jeffrey Reed: Yeah
  Phillip Costa: make
  Jeffrey Reed: now
  Phillip Costa: it a
  Jeffrey Reed: I
  Phillip Costa: fluffy
  Jeffrey Reed: now
  Phillip Costa: rabbit.
  Jeffrey Reed: I understand now, yeah.
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah I can see by the ears.
  Jeffrey Reed: Yeah.
  Phillip Costa: 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
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm.
  Phillip Costa: and it's fluffy. And one day you'll be able to getical genetically modify them and they will come in pink.
  Jeffrey Reed: Ah.
  Phillip Costa: Okay?
  Kermit Gonzales: Excellent,
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Kermit Gonzales: and what's your what's your role within the team?
  Phillip Costa: I am the um I need my notebook, mm ooh top banana. Thank you. Okay, cool, I am Phillip Costa 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
  Edward Drake: Mm-hmm.
  Phillip Costa: trend watching in the conceptual design and product evad-valuation in the detailed design
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Edward Drake: Okay.
  Phillip Costa: um so yeah.
  Kermit Gonzales: And more
  Edward Drake: 'Kay.
  Kermit Gonzales: about yourself, you're from?
  Phillip Costa: Um I'm from Leicester,
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Phillip Costa: um second year. Um what else do you want to know? I like sports um yeah, aerobics, kickboxing, spinning um and uh
  Kermit Gonzales: But not with rabbits.
  Phillip Costa: not with rabbits, no
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Phillip Costa: no. And vets, I like vets as well. And yeah um and I like cocktails, especially pink ones. Okay?
  Edward Drake: Cool.
  Kermit Gonzales: Excellent,
  Phillip Costa: Cool.
  Kermit Gonzales: to match the rabbit.
  Jeffrey Reed: Okay. Um so my name is Maarika. Where's the pen? Okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: There's a an if you have not enough room there's an eraser there and you can rub
  Jeffrey Reed: Yeah,
  Kermit Gonzales: it off.
  Jeffrey Reed: 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
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Jeffrey Reed: mm hmm. Um well, there are different kinds of dogs, but okay um.
  Edward Drake: That's not bad at
  Kermit Gonzales: Ah
  Edward Drake: all.
  Kermit Gonzales: it looks like a dog.
  Edward Drake: Yep.
  Jeffrey Reed: Okay.
  Phillip Costa: Is a bit more impressive than my rabbit. I think it needs four legs if it's gonna walk though.
  Jeffrey Reed: Yeah, maybe it has some colourful patches, yeah. Um
  Kermit Gonzales: the other
  Jeffrey Reed: yeah
  Kermit Gonzales: legs
  Jeffrey Reed: and
  Kermit Gonzales: are on the other
  Jeffrey Reed: I
  Kermit Gonzales: side.
  Jeffrey Reed: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: And where where are you from?
  Jeffrey Reed: I'm from Estonia uh,
  Kermit Gonzales: Estonia.
  Jeffrey Reed: 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,
  Edward Drake: Thank you.
  Jeffrey Reed: that's it.
  Edward Drake: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: Good luck.
  Edward Drake: Uh this is going to be
  Phillip Costa: They're not just like a big round body and then some really skinny legs and then just
  Edward Drake: Yeah,
  Phillip Costa: some
  Edward Drake: that'll
  Phillip Costa: horns.
  Edward Drake: do. Okay, so let let Phillip Costa draw the body first.
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm.
  Edward Drake: Big, round body, really skinny legs and they've got a long tail and a long face.
  Kermit Gonzales: It's eating.
  Phillip Costa: It looks like Eeyore.
  Edward Drake: And there is some grass there.
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah.
  Edward Drake: So this is what I like about cows that
  Phillip Costa: Horns,
  Edward Drake: they just keeps
  Phillip Costa: draw some
  Edward Drake: sitting
  Phillip Costa: horns.
  Edward Drake: 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 Edward Drake, 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: Excellent.
  Edward Drake: Thank you.
  Jeffrey Reed: Thanks.
  Kermit Gonzales: Right, now now it's my turn obviously.
  Kermit Gonzales: Okay,
  Edward Drake: That doesn't
  Kermit Gonzales: here's
  Edward Drake: look
  Kermit Gonzales: a space.
  Edward Drake: like a cow, does
  Jeffrey Reed: It
  Edward Drake: it?
  Jeffrey Reed: looks very very cute.
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah, I like the cow. I'm
  Jeffrey Reed: Yeah.
  Kermit Gonzales: Jen.
  Jeffrey Reed: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Phillip Costa: Is that a lizard?
  Edward Drake: No way.
  Kermit Gonzales: Hmm.
  Jeffrey Reed: Wow.
  Kermit Gonzales: It's a gecko.
  Jeffrey Reed: Ah,
  Edward Drake: Ah
  Jeffrey Reed: a gecko,
  Edward Drake: okay.
  Jeffrey Reed: okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah.
  Phillip Costa: Is there a difference?
  Jeffrey Reed: Is a ar
  Kermit Gonzales: They're
  Jeffrey Reed: are they also like lizards or are they
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah,
  Jeffrey Reed: yeah,
  Kermit Gonzales: they're l
  Jeffrey Reed: they
  Kermit Gonzales: it's
  Jeffrey Reed: are
  Kermit Gonzales: a kind of lizard.
  Jeffrey Reed: mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: And I I like geckos because they remind Phillip Costa of warm places
  Jeffrey Reed: Ah.
  Kermit Gonzales: and,
  Edward Drake: Uh-huh.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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
  Jeffrey Reed: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: in
  Jeffrey Reed: I hope
  Kermit Gonzales: the
  Jeffrey Reed: you
  Kermit Gonzales: evening.
  Jeffrey Reed: don't like snakes, do you?
  Kermit Gonzales: I don't like snakes. I come
  Jeffrey Reed: Okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: from Australia and we have nasty snakes.
  Jeffrey Reed: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: That's where I'm from, Australia. I'm from Melbourne and I'm your Project Manager for today and
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Jeffrey Reed: Wonderful.
  Kermit Gonzales: Okay.
  Edward Drake: Thank you.
  Kermit Gonzales: So, let's see what's next in the PowerPoint presentation. So,
  Phillip Costa: If
  Kermit Gonzales: I've
  Phillip Costa: you
  Kermit Gonzales: just
  Phillip Costa: right
  Kermit Gonzales: thought
  Phillip Costa: click
  Kermit Gonzales: yeah
  Phillip Costa: on it
  Kermit Gonzales: I've
  Phillip Costa: you
  Kermit Gonzales: just
  Phillip Costa: can
  Kermit Gonzales: thought about this that we could even put it much more professionally
  Edward Drake: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: So that's something to keep in mind while you're designing. Okay. Hmm. This is let Phillip Costa 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
  Jeffrey Reed: Yep.
  Kermit Gonzales: remote control?
  Jeffrey Reed: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm. I think that's probably something that w it's best if we take away with us, but if
  Edward Drake: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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
  Edward Drake: I think uh
  Kermit Gonzales: are out
  Edward Drake: i
  Kermit Gonzales: of
  Edward Drake: in
  Kermit Gonzales: the ordinary.
  Edward Drake: 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
  Kermit Gonzales: Something
  Edward Drake: to this.
  Kermit Gonzales: something new.
  Phillip Costa: Yeah, I was looking
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Phillip Costa: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Phillip Costa: 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,
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Phillip Costa: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: Uh-huh.
  Edward Drake: Alright.
  Phillip Costa: 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?
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Phillip Costa: Okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: So perhaps some sort of menu-based thing, or
  Phillip Costa: Something that's a little less crowded than this, like
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Phillip Costa: I mean you know, theoretically you can do all kinds of things with your T_V_, right?
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah.
  Phillip Costa: But what do most people do? They turn it on, they watch
  Edward Drake: Yeah.
  Phillip Costa: certain specified channels,
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah.
  Phillip Costa: you know, and then they turn it off again.
  Edward Drake: There is a
  Phillip Costa: Sometimes
  Edward Drake: lot of functionality
  Phillip Costa: they play a movie.
  Edward Drake: in there that is not used ninety percent of the time,
  Phillip Costa: Yeah,
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah.
  Edward Drake: but
  Phillip Costa: so
  Edward Drake: will be used ten percent of the time,
  Phillip Costa: there's no
  Kermit Gonzales: So,
  Edward Drake: yeah.
  Phillip Costa: need to have buttons on it to
  Kermit Gonzales: no.
  Phillip Costa: do that, maybe to
  Edward Drake: Yep.
  Phillip Costa: do
  Kermit Gonzales: It could be one button for a menu or something, if
  Phillip Costa: Yeah.
  Kermit Gonzales: you
  Jeffrey Reed: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: really
  Edward Drake: And
  Kermit Gonzales: need
  Edward Drake: then
  Kermit Gonzales: to go
  Edward Drake: use
  Kermit Gonzales: and do
  Phillip Costa: So,
  Edward Drake: the
  Kermit Gonzales: that.
  Phillip Costa: if you're the kind of sad case that knows how your remote control works, then you know
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Phillip Costa: that's fine and you can do it on the screen rather than everybody else having to have those buttons, which just confuse them.
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Phillip Costa: Hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: Excellent.
  Phillip Costa: '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
  Kermit Gonzales: Oh I
  Phillip Costa: you
  Kermit Gonzales: haven't
  Phillip Costa: can put
  Kermit Gonzales: had
  Phillip Costa: it
  Kermit Gonzales: a look
  Phillip Costa: up on
  Kermit Gonzales: yet,
  Phillip Costa: the thing
  Kermit Gonzales: yep.
  Phillip Costa: um but it is just like a long like thing used for mu moving people, but it looks really pretty too.
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm. Great. Any other immediate thoughts
  Edward Drake: Mm.
  Kermit Gonzales: before we move along?
  Edward Drake: 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
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Edward Drake: 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.
  Kermit Gonzales: Yeah.
  Edward Drake: Um
  Jeffrey Reed: Yeah but
  Edward Drake: Hmm.
  Jeffrey Reed: 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
  Edward Drake: Yeah.
  Jeffrey Reed: the new users will just have a
  Edward Drake: A
  Jeffrey Reed: lot
  Edward Drake: big learning
  Jeffrey Reed: of problems
  Edward Drake: curve,
  Jeffrey Reed: with l
  Edward Drake: yeah.
  Kermit Gonzales: Mm-hmm.
  Jeffrey Reed: learning, yeah, yeah.
  Edward Drake: Yeah. So, i it should kind of fit in as well, and
  Kermit Gonzales: It's like
  Edward Drake: the
  Kermit Gonzales: those fancy websites
  Edward Drake: stereotype of a
  Jeffrey Reed: Hm-hmm.
  Edward Drake: yeah.
  Kermit Gonzales: 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,
  Edward Drake: Alright.
  Kermit Gonzales: you're looking at the technical functions design, and for you it's the user requirements specification,
  Phillip Costa: Mm-hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: like you said at the start. Okay?
  Jeffrey Reed: Okay.
  Kermit Gonzales: Thanks for that.
  Jeffrey Reed: Thank you.
  Kermit Gonzales: Uh I'll see you in half an hour.
  Jeffrey Reed: See you.
  Kermit Gonzales: Carry the laptops back again.
  Edward Drake: Hmm.
  Kermit Gonzales: Do we need to unplug things? Probably.
Updated Content: Kermit Gonzales 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 Kermit Gonzales going over the task each member is to complete before the next meeting.