Extracted Content: Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: Mm yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay. I g yeah. Time it?
  Alyson Pierce: Fourteen twenty six.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay. Lovely to see you all again. Um it's our conceptual design meeting and it's starting at approximately fourteen twenty five and so we have forty minutes for this one again and so we'll go just after three o'clock. Um okay our agenda, we're gonna do an opening, I'm gonna review the minutes of the last meeting, then we'll have your three presentations um and then we'll have to make a decision on the remote control concepts, and we'll close.
  Ruth Beckwith: Okay.
  Rosa Cleveland: So opening. Um these are our minutes from r the functional design. We decided our target group is the focus on who can afford it, because we have international appeal and we said it's for all age groups, different um functions of it. Our main objectives were simplicity and fashion. And s um in specific functions are something to keep the remote from getting lost, large buttons for the essential functions, a possibility for extra functions, like a sliding a sliding piece and a long-life battery or a charging station. Okay, now three presentations. I'd like to do it in this order, first do the conceptual specification of components, properties and materials um
  Ruth Beckwith: That would be Alyson Pierce.
  Rosa Cleveland: and then the conceptual specification of user interface
  Ann Winston: Yep.
  Rosa Cleveland: and finally trend watching.
  Ruth Beckwith: Alright. Well.
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm. 'kay.
  Rosa Cleveland: Function F_ eight it. There we go.
  Ruth Beckwith: Alright. Um I'm very excited by this one actually guys I uh had a lot of fun doing it. Components design. This is where you look at what does it take to make a remote control and what should we make our specific remote control out of. Um. So, we need to examine each element separately, but we're designing a full thing, so you wanna keep it integrated as a whole. The main elements of remote controls in general, and therefore ours as well, are the case, the buttons, the circuit board with the chip and the battery. These are all things that we had sort of addressed before, but I'm gonna take each one a little bit separately here as we figure out what they should be made of and what they should look like. The case, uh the options that I've gotten from headquarters about what we can do, um there's there's the shape of a case, we could do a flat sh a flat case, a curved case or maybe even a double double-curved case. I haven't seen any pictures of what this exactly looks like yet, just keep that in mind, but these are the options that we have from manufacturing and we can make our case out of plastic, the m the main base will be plastic, but we have all these sort of fashion and technological elements we can add in, wood, latex, titanium, rubber or other coloured types of plastic. That would be our case. Um buttons, for buttons we have um pushbuttons, which is what Real Reaction uses the most often, but we also have scror scroll wheels, which can
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm.
  Ruth Beckwith: have integrated pushbuttons, or we could go all high-tech and have an L_ L_C_D_ screen. Um circuit board and chip we can have a simple one, a regular one or an advanced one, depending on what our other needs are. And then battery I think is where things get most exciting. We're talking about long-life batteries here. Um we can we can have your sort of basic double A_ batteries, but we also have these options of um using a kinetic battery, like are used in high-tech watches, where you just have to move it a little bit to get it to power up. Um so simple movements like pushing buttons would recharge the battery. Or a solar battery, although there are slight um complications with solar batteries as in we can't use a latex case if we have a solar battery.
  Rosa Cleveland: Hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: Or um something they only described as the type of battery you find in torches from about fifty years ago, flashlights. Not quite sure what that is, but that's the description that I received, so that's what I'm passing on to you. So those are our options. Um personal preferences that I was thinking through here's what we've been talking about all through, fashion and simplicity. So if we're going for fashion in our cases, I think that what we're gonna wanna look at is a curved or a double-curved case, probably with a variety of design elements. Maybe titanium, maybe some wood. We're gonna have to investigate that better when I get specifics of the actual materials, but that's sort of what I have in mind. And we wanna go for simplicity. Probably pushbuttons, but I'm sort of intrigued by the idea of a scroll scroll
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm.
  Ruth Beckwith: wheel, if anyone has anything any ideas on that? I mean I know the iPods and things right now have touch scroll um buttons which are exactly like what they're describing, so that might be something we wanna look into. And I'm really intrigued by the idea of a kinetic battery. Solar I don't think would be such a good idea, because how often are you sure that your remote control will get a certain amount of light. But this idea of the kinetic, that you don't have to replace, and that a simple just shaking it around will make it work, I think that that m would be a very interesting thing. But I think we'd also wanna go for e a simple chip or regular chip to keep our costs down. Uh we really only need a regular or advanced chip t if we're gonna start using an L_C_D_. So I think we want to be aware of not making things overly t technological if they don't need to be, 'cause that'll keep our manufacturing price way down. That's what I have for options. Um I'd appreciate anyone's input, but that's what I'm seeing for the future of the the look of this thing.
  Alyson Pierce: Is double-curved like would be like two hands kind of thing?
  Ruth Beckwith: I'm not sure. I haven't received any specific
  Alyson Pierce: Okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: visuals
  Alyson Pierce: 'Cause I'm
  Ruth Beckwith: of
  Alyson Pierce: imagining
  Ruth Beckwith: this yet.
  Alyson Pierce: like double-curved is like, you know, like two sides that curve
  Ruth Beckwith: This is
  Alyson Pierce: and
  Ruth Beckwith: what
  Alyson Pierce: then like
  Ruth Beckwith: I'm sort
  Alyson Pierce: one
  Ruth Beckwith: of
  Alyson Pierce: curve would just be like a single vertical-ish kind of looking
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: thing, but I've
  Ruth Beckwith: I'm
  Alyson Pierce: no idea.
  Ruth Beckwith: not sure, but I'll let you know as soon as I get any pictures.
  Alyson Pierce: Sounds good.
  Rosa Cleveland: Yeah, I wonder
  Ruth Beckwith: I know if we do have a double-curved case, it can't have any titanium in it. But the titanium, they were quite they're marketing quite hard to us as being used in the space programme, so that could be quite interesting. Space-age remote.
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: Just all things
  Rosa Cleveland: Just
  Ruth Beckwith: to
  Rosa Cleveland: an interesting
  Ruth Beckwith: keep in mind.
  Rosa Cleveland: marketing kind of
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: element.
  Ruth Beckwith: That's about all I have to do, guys. quickly.
  Rosa Cleveland: Uh just a real quick question um the weight of these different elements,
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: have
  Ruth Beckwith: n
  Rosa Cleveland: you
  Ruth Beckwith: no
  Rosa Cleveland: no
  Ruth Beckwith: idea,
  Rosa Cleveland: idea, okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: no idea. Um I'm assuming that a kinetic battery isn't gonna take up that much weight,
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: and that a tita titanium is very light, I know,
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: um but other than that's really basic, I mean, that's all I have gotten so far.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: Alright? Any other questions?
  Ann Winston: Uh-huh. Don't think so.
  Ruth Beckwith: No? Okay.
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm 'kay.
  Ruth Beckwith: I have save this in the uh shared projects, if anyone wants to look
  Rosa Cleveland: Thank you, perfect.
  Ruth Beckwith: and
  Alyson Pierce: Thanks.
  Ruth Beckwith: I have c considerable notes on the topic as well, if anyone needs any more information. Uh
  Rosa Cleveland: Um if you made notes yourself you can put those on our um underneath our
  Ruth Beckwith: Just in
  Rosa Cleveland: oh,
  Ruth Beckwith: my notebook,
  Rosa Cleveland: uh in your book, then don't worry about
  Ruth Beckwith: but if
  Rosa Cleveland: that.
  Ruth Beckwith: anyone has any specific questions, don't hesitate to email Alyson Pierce or something. Alright? Uh I guess I can
  Rosa Cleveland: 'Kay now we're um concepts concepts of user interface. Yeah, um. This one's so much tighter than the other one.
  Ruth Beckwith: I know.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay. Nope. There we go. Here you are.
  Ann Winston: Jess.
  Ruth Beckwith: G oh, geez.
  Ann Winston: Alright, so I'm gonna describe the the concept of the user interface of this des device. Um we've talked about uh the two essential properties of the user interface. We want it to be simple and we want it to be fashionable. Um other we've also got to remember that this is a device that serves as a useful purpose. Uh we want people to be able to use it s as a remote control, so we need determine what the essential functions of the d of the device are and make sure that we include that we've included all of those and that we actually end up with a device that is going to be useful to people. We have a number of different choices for a design concept um and s that's that's something that that I'll show you some examples of um, but essentially we need to choose how how is this device going to work, how how what kind of model is there going to be for user interaction with this device. Uh once we've chosen a a concept for it, we can then design the features around the concept, making sure that we get all the essential functions in the device and uh the extra functions and the more advanced features. And of course we also have to make it look cool. So basically, that's what we don't want. M we don't want lots of buttons, uh complicated features. We want something that looks nice and simple. Here's a
  Ruth Beckwith: Hmm.
  Ann Winston: a fairly simple device. This is an an iPod from Apple. Um I think the main thing to notice about it is it just has four buttons. It's very minimalistic in its design. Uh you use these four buttons to m to move around a range of settings on the small L_C_D_ screen. Um the thing I like about this is that it's very very quick to access the main features. Uh you can just about make out uh that the button three buttons are uh previous track, next track and play pause. They're the main the main features of the iPod, the things you will use a all the time. Um then if you want to do anything more advanced, you go into the little menu on the L_C_D_ screen and you use the buttons just to scroll around and and find the more advanced features that you want. So I think that's that's a good a good kind of model that we could have. Um here's a another example. This is uh it's an interesting idea and I think i it looks pretty cool. Um it's certainly got novelty value. Uh
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm.
  Ann Winston: it's nice and colourful, it's nice and bright. Uh it's also something that you can kind of feel your way around. The buttons are are different shapes and and you can sort of yeah if you're watching T_V_ in the dark or whatever, you can work out which button's which and basically, yeah it's ith it's fun. So I I like I like this idea of just having buttons for the features that you use most often. So you'd need a few buttons to select your favourite channels. I mean most people, when they watch T_V_, they have two hundred and fifty channels on their T_V_ and they watch of 'bout four of them at the most. So, you have buttons for your favourite channel, changing the volume, which is something you do all the time when you're watching T_V_, and the button to switch it off, in case you get bored. Um other features, things like adjusting the brightness, tuning the T_V_, uh I don't know what else you do with a T_V_. Um but these are these are all necessary functions. Uh you can't have a t there's no point having a television that you can't tune or that you can't set the contrast, so we need to find a way of including these somehow. Um and one other suggestions I'd make is to in is to include in a menu system, a bit like on the iPod. So we'd either have a small L_C_D_ display on the device itself, or uh have a dis a menu display that comes up on your television and can b be controlled through the device.
  Ruth Beckwith: Hmm.
  Ann Winston: And that would allow you to access access the advanced features uh whilst keeping a very small and simple set of buttons for the features that you use most often.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: So you'd be advocating an L_C_D_ then?
  Ann Winston: I think that's that's one way to go, yes.
  Ruth Beckwith: Okay.
  Ann Winston: Um I mean there are there are advantages and disadvantages if you if you have an L_C_D_ display, it's it's nice, because it's it it lets you just sort of sit there and st and control your television from your armchair.
  Ruth Beckwith: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: There are disadvantages, an an L_C_D_ display would have to be quite small, 'cause we're
  Ruth Beckwith: Right.
  Ann Winston: we're I well we're I assume we're gonna be making quite a small device. Um it would also have to have uh a kind of backlighting in it, 'cause you ten you tend to watch
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: T_V_ in the dark,
  Ruth Beckwith: Right.
  Ann Winston: but you need to be able to see your L_D_D_ L_C_D_ display. The alternative is to have a an on-screen display on your television that you control through your remote control. Uh have these um digital boxes where you you press the buttons and it comes up with your this thing of watch lo what's
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: on each channel. I mean
  Ruth Beckwith: Okay.
  Ann Winston: that that's also a good idea. It's it can it does have it's problems as well, if you've got a small T_V_ and you're sitting on the other
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm.
  Ann Winston: side of a room, it's hard to read the little text that comes up.
  Ruth Beckwith: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: Uh but that's a that's a design decision that we can make.
  Ruth Beckwith: 'Kay.
  Rosa Cleveland: I do think that um one of the important features for a remote is seeing a menu and seeing what's on. Um
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: and so like favourite channels is is applicable, but I think th that you do need to have some kind of function where it's um you have t you can see
  Ruth Beckwith: Well
  Rosa Cleveland: the title of the show or possibly a description of it.
  Ruth Beckwith: Are you
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Like
  Ruth Beckwith: are you
  Rosa Cleveland: I
  Ruth Beckwith: tak
  Rosa Cleveland: I know I use
  Alyson Pierce: Wait,
  Rosa Cleveland: that
  Alyson Pierce: but is
  Rosa Cleveland: often
  Alyson Pierce: that separate
  Rosa Cleveland: enough.
  Alyson Pierce: from what he was saying?
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Well if it if it was a L_ L_C_D_ on th on the remote, I don't know that you could f that you'd
  Ruth Beckwith: No,
  Rosa Cleveland: be able to
  Ruth Beckwith: I
  Rosa Cleveland: see
  Ruth Beckwith: think
  Rosa Cleveland: a
  Ruth Beckwith: I think we're talking menu like contrast and
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: tuning the V_C_R_ or something if I've understood you correctly,
  Ann Winston: Yeah, that
  Ruth Beckwith: rather than
  Ann Winston: that
  Ruth Beckwith: menu
  Ann Winston: would be one
  Ruth Beckwith: as
  Ann Winston: of the
  Ruth Beckwith: what's
  Ann Winston: features,
  Ruth Beckwith: on.
  Ann Winston: yes.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ann Winston: But it's
  Rosa Cleveland: 'Cause that would
  Ann Winston: it's
  Rosa Cleveland: be more specifically
  Ann Winston: it's
  Rosa Cleveland: a
  Ann Winston: something
  Rosa Cleveland: digital
  Ann Winston: to bear
  Rosa Cleveland: box,
  Ann Winston: in mind is that
  Rosa Cleveland: mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: if we put a display on the remote control the c uh communication is one way, so you can't have the televisions and information back to the remote control,
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh,
  Ann Winston: at
  Ruth Beckwith: good
  Ann Winston: least
  Ruth Beckwith: point.
  Ann Winston: I
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm.
  Ann Winston: don't think you can. Um I'm not sure.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay, now
  Alyson Pierce: Should
  Rosa Cleveland: we're
  Alyson Pierce: I plug
  Rosa Cleveland: moving
  Alyson Pierce: that
  Rosa Cleveland: on
  Alyson Pierce: in?
  Rosa Cleveland: to market. Marketing.
  Ann Winston: Is that going on? Okay.
  Alyson Pierce: Maybe it's just not
  Ann Winston: Uh that should
  Alyson Pierce: Is it
  Ann Winston: be
  Alyson Pierce: on?
  Ann Winston: alright, actually.
  Alyson Pierce: Ri What F_ do you have to press, five?
  Rosa Cleveland: Eight.
  Alyson Pierce: I just keep pressing lots of 'em. Well, I don't know how relevant all of this gonna be. If anything, the that they gave Alyson Pierce.
  Ruth Beckwith: No
  Rosa Cleveland: Oops,
  Ruth Beckwith: signal.
  Rosa Cleveland: it's not plugged in, quite
  Alyson Pierce: Alright.
  Rosa Cleveland: in well enough. There we are.
  Ruth Beckwith: Oop, there we go.
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm 'kay.
  Alyson Pierce: Oh yeah. Okay, so we're gonna look a little bit at trend watching. Basically, I was given um an executive summary that was a market investigation on remote controls that was recently conducted, and then also some fashion watchers in Paris and Milan commented on some things that are gonna be going on this year. So first um they had people they ranked um the important aspects of r remote controls, and right now i d they're saying that currently there's a functional look and feel preference, but that really, over the next year it it that's gonna be switching to fancy look and feel remotes, so that just goes back to the whole desire of our c Real Reaction company wanting to focus on fashion and so, even though we're stressing, when we're talking, we've all been talking about this like simplicity and easy to use idea, they're sort of wanting us to remember that the number one thing for everyone is that it's fancy look and feel. And as these are ranked, the top one is doubly important to the second one, which is doubly important to the third one, so
  Ruth Beckwith: Okay.
  Alyson Pierce: just to take that weight into account. The second thing that was mentioned as important was the technological innovations. That would be like if we use something like the space material or the L_C_D_ screen, things like that. And then ease of use was the third most important, whi so really, no matter what, we need to focus the most on fancy look and feel, according to this. I don't know how much we agree with that. And then the fashion watch talks about that this year's top trend for clothes, shoes and furniture is fruits and vegetables and tha that there's a preference
  Rosa Cleveland: S sweet.
  Alyson Pierce: for spongy, tight material. And so that brings us to my personal preferences. Who wants a spongy remote or one with fruit and vegetable padding. Personally, I don't really think that I want one that's gonna go out of style or go stale, excuse the pun, um in a year, so even though this is coming from us as, you know, trend watch, market research, I don't know how much of it we necessarily wanna take away. Also, considering that the d research b has been carried out by Real Reaction, I'm a little hesitant as to like, how these questions may have been worded, and if necessarily this whole fashion to technology y edas ease of use is necessarily the right ranking. Personally, like I might reverse it, but if we're working for this company then I guess no matter what, we have to stress fashion the most. But it
  Ruth Beckwith: Mm.
  Alyson Pierce: doesn't necessarily need to be a spongy material.
  Ruth Beckwith: That there's all kinds of scope for imagination in that one though.
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah. I don't have a lot of notes to share if you want them, that pretty much sums it up. So yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay, do we have any s some questions for this, let's
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: see um.
  Alyson Pierce: what can I possibly enlighten on?
  Rosa Cleveland: Um do you have any ideas how to possibly use these? Um how to how to use a fruit or vegetable or um or the spongy material at all? Like could we make a s like could we make a spongy remote? It would be easier
  Ruth Beckwith: If
  Rosa Cleveland: on
  Ruth Beckwith: it's
  Rosa Cleveland: the hands.
  Ruth Beckwith: latex if it's latexy
  Rosa Cleveland: It's kind of
  Ruth Beckwith: Um,
  Rosa Cleveland: and then it
  Ruth Beckwith: mean
  Ann Winston: A kind of
  Rosa Cleveland: we
  Ann Winston: thing
  Rosa Cleveland: would have to
  Ann Winston: that
  Rosa Cleveland: find a way to protect like the chip and all that, I dunno.
  Ruth Beckwith: An
  Rosa Cleveland: But
  Ruth Beckwith: uh I if th my understanding of a latex case is that it's in fact hard to protect stuff inside, but that
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: it's covered with the latex, which is spongier and softer on your hands. It's there's something to be said, I mean we we got that thing earlier from you about um not wanting it to R_ R_ repetitive stress injuries
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: and
  Alyson Pierce: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: things
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: and and Yeah,
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah, so something, m
  Ruth Beckwith: something
  Alyson Pierce: m instead of
  Ruth Beckwith: grippable,
  Alyson Pierce: a necess
  Ruth Beckwith: I mean
  Alyson Pierce: yeah,
  Ruth Beckwith: we don't
  Alyson Pierce: grip,
  Ruth Beckwith: we don't
  Alyson Pierce: I'm thinking
  Ruth Beckwith: we don't wanna go
  Alyson Pierce: grip
  Ruth Beckwith: spongy,
  Alyson Pierce: more than
  Ruth Beckwith: maybe.
  Alyson Pierce: like sinking into your hands,
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: you know, i and I
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: think I'm envisioning more like,
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: you know, the material that you have when you sit on like a bicycle, so
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Alyson Pierce: that it doesn't hurt when
  Ruth Beckwith: Mm-hmm.
  Alyson Pierce: you're sitting down for a long time, like I'm imagining that sort of thing, I don't know what th that
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah,
  Alyson Pierce: material's
  Ruth Beckwith: I think
  Alyson Pierce: called.
  Ruth Beckwith: that given the list of materials I w I was forwarded it's that seems doable. could we go in fruit and vegetable colours? We could colour-co-ordinate
  Rosa Cleveland: F for
  Ruth Beckwith: them,
  Rosa Cleveland: sure, or maybe
  Ruth Beckwith: li
  Rosa Cleveland: like um couple main ones being like, I dunno, lemons or strawberries or something.
  Ruth Beckwith: The buttons could be fruit-shaped.
  Rosa Cleveland: Could they be smelly?
  Ann Winston: I
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh
  Alyson Pierce: Oh God.
  Ann Winston: Is it supposed to be shaped like a vegetable? Uh
  Rosa Cleveland: I
  Ann Winston: like
  Rosa Cleveland: don't
  Ann Winston: uh
  Rosa Cleveland: know.
  Ann Winston: I dunno, like uh carrots or something.
  Ruth Beckwith: well it's
  Rosa Cleveland: Or
  Ruth Beckwith: quite easy
  Rosa Cleveland: carrot
  Ruth Beckwith: to s
  Rosa Cleveland: shaped,
  Ruth Beckwith: shape thing
  Rosa Cleveland: mm.
  Ruth Beckwith: like carrot isn't it?
  Ann Winston: Maybe,
  Ruth Beckwith: Or maybe the
  Ann Winston: or
  Ruth Beckwith: buttons could be shaped
  Rosa Cleveland: Like large
  Ruth Beckwith: like different
  Rosa Cleveland: button,
  Ruth Beckwith: fruits.
  Rosa Cleveland: that's what I was thinking of, yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: What about the idea of like a round remote? Instead of like a vertical up and down one. Like
  Ann Winston: Kind
  Alyson Pierce: in
  Ann Winston: of
  Alyson Pierce: terms
  Ann Winston: like a
  Alyson Pierce: of
  Ann Winston: potato.
  Alyson Pierce: holding it. Like that's a f shape
  Ruth Beckwith: be yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: of a fruit.
  Ruth Beckwith: It'd
  Alyson Pierce: Just
  Rosa Cleveland: Might
  Alyson Pierce: to
  Rosa Cleveland: would you
  Alyson Pierce: tie
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: think you
  Alyson Pierce: it
  Rosa Cleveland: you
  Alyson Pierce: in a little.
  Rosa Cleveland: do you think you'd be able to hold it? 'Cause I think the reason they're long
  Ruth Beckwith: be harder
  Rosa Cleveland: is
  Ruth Beckwith: to f bu uh buttons
  Rosa Cleveland: yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: I think. It'd be harder to press
  Ann Winston: Depends.
  Ruth Beckwith: button.
  Rosa Cleveland: Harder to push.
  Ann Winston: When you when you use a remote, do you press the buttons with your thumb, usually?
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah.
  Ann Winston: Or your fingers?
  Ruth Beckwith: Um
  Rosa Cleveland: I usually hold it in one hand. Maybe
  Ann Winston: Or maybe
  Ruth Beckwith: I
  Ann Winston: you want something that's shaped like a mobile phone, so you you hold it in one hand, and you press the buttons
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: But then
  Ann Winston: with
  Rosa Cleveland: the buttons
  Ann Winston: your thumb.
  Rosa Cleveland: would
  Ruth Beckwith: that's
  Rosa Cleveland: have to be very small.
  Ruth Beckwith: ts how I tend to do it.
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: Don't
  Alyson Pierce: 'cause
  Rosa Cleveland: you think?
  Ruth Beckwith: No
  Alyson Pierce: otherwise
  Ruth Beckwith: just
  Alyson Pierce: your
  Ruth Beckwith: thumb-sized.
  Alyson Pierce: fingers can't move around.
  Ruth Beckwith: Jus
  Alyson Pierce: But
  Rosa Cleveland: But
  Alyson Pierce: I like
  Rosa Cleveland: I mean
  Alyson Pierce: i
  Rosa Cleveland: in order to get to all of them,
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: you know.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: They would have to be within
  Ann Winston: Maybe.
  Rosa Cleveland: a certain amount
  Ruth Beckwith: That's
  Rosa Cleveland: of
  Ann Winston: But
  Ruth Beckwith: true.
  Rosa Cleveland: space
  Ann Winston: if you've only
  Rosa Cleveland: with
  Ann Winston: got
  Rosa Cleveland: each other.
  Ann Winston: like four or five buttons anyway, then it's it's not
  Ruth Beckwith: Right.
  Ann Winston: so much a problem, perhaps.
  Ruth Beckwith: I When I'm when I'm pressing buttons on my iPod, that's how I do it, hold it and press
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: the
  Ann Winston: So
  Ruth Beckwith: four.
  Ann Winston: you hold it in one hand
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Ann Winston: and you press you press the buttons
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: with
  Ruth Beckwith: or
  Ann Winston: your thumb
  Ruth Beckwith: in and use
  Ann Winston: and
  Ruth Beckwith: my thumb or my pointer finger on the touch scroll wheel.
  Ann Winston: And
  Alyson Pierce: I
  Ann Winston: you find
  Alyson Pierce: love
  Ann Winston: that works
  Alyson Pierce: the idea
  Ann Winston: quite well?
  Alyson Pierce: of the
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Alyson Pierce: wheel like the iPod.
  Ann Winston: Is
  Alyson Pierce: 'Cause
  Ann Winston: that
  Alyson Pierce: th
  Ann Winston: The button on an iPod, is it what is it, is it just four buttons or is it
  Alyson Pierce: It's
  Ann Winston: li
  Alyson Pierce: like
  Ann Winston: more
  Alyson Pierce: five,
  Ann Winston: like
  Rosa Cleveland: It's a
  Ann Winston: a
  Rosa Cleveland: scroll,
  Ann Winston: scroll
  Alyson Pierce: 'cause
  Ann Winston: thing?
  Alyson Pierce: there's
  Ruth Beckwith: It
  Rosa Cleveland: yeah,
  Alyson Pierce: one
  Ruth Beckwith: wel
  Rosa Cleveland: it's
  Alyson Pierce: in the
  Rosa Cleveland: a
  Alyson Pierce: middle.
  Rosa Cleveland: wheel.
  Ruth Beckwith: well yeah, it would I mean each version of it has been a little bit different,
  Rosa Cleveland: The one I have
  Ruth Beckwith: but
  Rosa Cleveland: doesn't have the four on i like
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: around
  Ruth Beckwith: you had
  Rosa Cleveland: it,
  Ruth Beckwith: one
  Rosa Cleveland: I don't
  Ruth Beckwith: of the
  Rosa Cleveland: think.
  Ruth Beckwith: in-between ones, when they weren't doing that anymore.
  Ruth Beckwith: Ts
  Ann Winston: Right.
  Ruth Beckwith: and you press the centre button, that's that's
  Ann Winston: Oh,
  Ruth Beckwith: your all-purpose
  Ann Winston: I see,
  Ruth Beckwith: select
  Ann Winston: right, yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: button right there.
  Ann Winston: Oh, okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: Since it's the
  Ann Winston: Yeah,
  Ruth Beckwith: one
  Ann Winston: that's
  Ruth Beckwith: in the
  Ann Winston: quite
  Ruth Beckwith: centre
  Ann Winston: a good
  Ruth Beckwith: that's
  Ann Winston: design.
  Ruth Beckwith: not marked, yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: I think why it would be good for us is 'cause like you could have the same wheel sort of effect for like channel flipping and then the other
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: one could be like for volume. Like just the idea of like those so few buttons
  Ruth Beckwith: Uh
  Alyson Pierce: for main
  Ruth Beckwith: uh t
  Alyson Pierce: things, but then how you could go back to the menu and like, I dunno if we would want it on the screen there or on the actual T_V_. I kind of am wanting
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: to say on the T_V_, 'cause if you're changing
  Ruth Beckwith: Hmm.
  Alyson Pierce: the brightness, don't you wanna see it happening, kind
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm.
  Alyson Pierce: of?
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: And then
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah, I
  Alyson Pierce: you
  Ruth Beckwith: think
  Alyson Pierce: could still
  Ruth Beckwith: an
  Alyson Pierce: have
  Ruth Beckwith: L_C_D_
  Alyson Pierce: that available.
  Ruth Beckwith: screen might be good in theory, but not as useful
  Ann Winston: I think
  Ruth Beckwith: in
  Ann Winston: it
  Ruth Beckwith: practice.
  Ann Winston: could be difficult in practice, yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Ann Winston: Also z yeah, 'cause you would be z looking down at the L_C_D_ screen, than
  Ruth Beckwith: Right.
  Ann Winston: back up at your T_V_ and
  Alyson Pierce: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: people
  Ruth Beckwith: Um
  Ann Winston: don't wanna do that.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay um
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh we
  Rosa Cleveland: we
  Ruth Beckwith: probably have
  Rosa Cleveland: have
  Ruth Beckwith: to get going, don't
  Rosa Cleveland: we've
  Ruth Beckwith: we?
  Rosa Cleveland: about fifteen minutes left, so I'm I'm gonna
  Alyson Pierce: Uh-huh.
  Rosa Cleveland: continue with my pres presentation. Um I've one more slide before we close, but in that slide is when we need to make decisions about this these kinds of things, so I'll just
  Ruth Beckwith: 'Kay.
  Rosa Cleveland: bring that up and show you all before we move on. Um
  Alyson Pierce: If I get
  Ruth Beckwith: Could
  Alyson Pierce: any more information of fruits and vegetables,
  Ruth Beckwith: Could we
  Alyson Pierce: I'll let
  Ruth Beckwith: uh
  Alyson Pierce: you know.
  Ruth Beckwith: could we have changeable covers like for your mobile?
  Ann Winston: Like,
  Ruth Beckwith: In different
  Ann Winston: to
  Ruth Beckwith: fruit
  Ann Winston: make
  Ruth Beckwith: and
  Ann Winston: it
  Ruth Beckwith: vegetable
  Ann Winston: different fruits.
  Ruth Beckwith: colours, yeah.
  Ann Winston: Yeah, it's possible.
  Rosa Cleveland: Yeah, and then like the the covers could be spongy latex
  Ruth Beckwith: Exactly.
  Rosa Cleveland: wherea but the actual model could be titanium.
  Ruth Beckwith: And you could co-ordinate with your house or whatever.
  Ann Winston: I
  Ruth Beckwith: All
  Ann Winston: think
  Ruth Beckwith: these
  Ann Winston: maybe
  Ruth Beckwith: options.
  Ann Winston: th the packaging, it should be like a lemon and the the packaging is like the peel. So
  Ruth Beckwith: Ooh.
  Ann Winston: instead of opening the box you just kind of peel it, and the remote control's inside.
  Alyson Pierce: Well, there we
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh.
  Alyson Pierce: go.
  Ann Winston: Don't know.
  Rosa Cleveland: Ah hmm
  Alyson Pierce: The
  Rosa Cleveland: hmm
  Alyson Pierce: iPod packaging
  Rosa Cleveland: hmm.
  Alyson Pierce: is Alyson Pierce like was so that was like half the fun. It's
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: like the way it all comes all cute.
  Ruth Beckwith: Mm.
  Alyson Pierce: Lemons?
  Ruth Beckwith: Options.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay, um components concept. Energy, chip
  Ruth Beckwith: Uh-hu oh,
  Rosa Cleveland: on print.
  Ruth Beckwith: oh yes. Right,
  Rosa Cleveland: G
  Ruth Beckwith: I had sort of skipped over that hoping it wouldn't get be necessary but um
  Rosa Cleveland: That's th th this is the agenda they gave Alyson Pierce. So
  Ruth Beckwith: Alright,
  Rosa Cleveland: can you just explain
  Ruth Beckwith: so
  Rosa Cleveland: what that
  Ruth Beckwith: um
  Rosa Cleveland: is real quick?
  Ruth Beckwith: decisions, what the okay deci decisions on energy I'm thinking is based on the battery.
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: Um I dunno, what do people think about this kinetic battery idea?
  Rosa Cleveland: I think it's awesome. I
  Ruth Beckwith: Am
  Rosa Cleveland: think
  Ruth Beckwith: I
  Rosa Cleveland: it's really cool.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah, I mean, it would t totally take care of our problem of not wanting to change batteries.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Ann Winston: Yeah, um I think it's good, as as long as we consider the the cost and the uh how reliable it is, but
  Ruth Beckwith: Right,
  Ann Winston: as far
  Ruth Beckwith: I haven't
  Ann Winston: as I know,
  Ruth Beckwith: gotten
  Ann Winston: the technology
  Ruth Beckwith: any
  Ann Winston: is good.
  Alyson Pierce: Costs.
  Ruth Beckwith: yeah, any more information on cost other than it's more expensive than a regular battery, but um
  Alyson Pierce: But over time
  Ruth Beckwith: but if we're using a an i a cheaper chip, then it'll even out, I think. Um circuit boards. Um yeah, I got a whole bunch of information on how circuit boards are produced. They're they're thin fibreglass with copper wires etched on to them, and di I think they're quite easily printed on by machine, which is chip on print is where the machine prints on the wires and solders it all together for us. I don't really know what to tell you as far as decisions. I wasn't really given any options, I was just given that this is how they're done.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: Um yeah, I can't can't really tell you. I can I can tell you a whole lot about how it works. But I don't know any decisions on
  Rosa Cleveland: If they're if they're really options.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah. I'm sorry, I did
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ann Winston: Al
  Ruth Beckwith: f
  Ann Winston: all circuit boards are pretty much the same, I think. Uh it's fairly fairly standard.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: then we'll move on to the case. Um oh bu I guess maybe if we decided on like a simple, a regular, or an advanced
  Ruth Beckwith: Right.
  Rosa Cleveland: chip,
  Ruth Beckwith: Well
  Rosa Cleveland: maybe.
  Ruth Beckwith: okay, here's the here's the thing on the chips that I that I got. Um simple, regular, advanced chip on print. The chip on print includes an infrared sensor, so we don't have to worry about that. Um, 'kay, the pushbutton if we're gonna have pushbuttons, they require a simple chip, but a scroll wheel requires a regular chip, and an L_C_D_ requires advanced. Do we want a scroll wheel, or do we just want pushbuttons?
  Ann Winston: Um I don't think we ne really need the scroll whe wheel. I mean it might be nice for changing the volume.
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh.
  Rosa Cleveland: It would
  Ann Winston: Uh
  Rosa Cleveland: be nice for changing
  Ann Winston: but
  Rosa Cleveland: the volume, but I don't know how useful it'd be for changing the channel.
  Ann Winston: I don't
  Rosa Cleveland: 'Cause
  Ann Winston: think
  Rosa Cleveland: you
  Ann Winston: it
  Rosa Cleveland: don't
  Ann Winston: would
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: have
  Alyson Pierce: it's
  Ann Winston: really
  Rosa Cleveland: control
  Ann Winston: work.
  Alyson Pierce: a
  Rosa Cleveland: over numbers or
  Ann Winston: Yeah, you
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah,
  Ann Winston: really need buttons
  Ruth Beckwith: th
  Ann Winston: for
  Ruth Beckwith: it'd
  Ann Winston: changing
  Ruth Beckwith: be
  Ann Winston: a channel.
  Ruth Beckwith: it'd be handy for going through if there was an on-screen menu of your channel choices,
  Alyson Pierce: But
  Ruth Beckwith: than
  Alyson Pierce: if
  Ruth Beckwith: you
  Alyson Pierce: you
  Ruth Beckwith: can
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: scroll
  Alyson Pierce: c if you
  Ruth Beckwith: down
  Alyson Pierce: could scroll
  Ruth Beckwith: on the scroll.
  Alyson Pierce: through the channels, and then
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: the volume would just
  Rosa Cleveland: We have
  Alyson Pierce: be
  Rosa Cleveland: five minutes left for the meeting, so.
  Alyson Pierce: and the volume would just be like the same way,
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: forward and backward as I'm just thinking like it would make it much like sleeker sort of looking.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: And
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: otherwise, no matter how may buttons we have, we're gonna have like, you know, black with red sticking out and th no it's gonna inevitably sort of start looking like
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Alyson Pierce: those group of sort of ugly ones that we saw stacked up.
  Ruth Beckwith: Hmm.
  Rosa Cleveland: So, have a scroll for volume?
  Ruth Beckwith: F or for all those secret
  Rosa Cleveland: F
  Ruth Beckwith: functions? When you get on the on-screen menu of all your functions that your remote could do for you without the buttons and you could have a scroll wheel to go through those menus.
  Ann Winston: I think yeah, I think a scroll wheel would be nice, but it's not necessary.
  Ruth Beckwith: Right.
  Ann Winston: Um
  Ruth Beckwith: So we could either go with a simple or a regular chip, depending and maybe we could table that decision for later.
  Rosa Cleveland: Um.
  Ruth Beckwith: I don't know.
  Rosa Cleveland: I think w well I think when we go on to the une userface, we're gonna have to decide the interface we're gonna have to decide
  Ruth Beckwith: Okay.
  Rosa Cleveland: um whether we're gonna have a scroll or not.
  Ruth Beckwith: Well, let's think about that while we talk about the case.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay, let's do case.
  Ruth Beckwith: Uh I'm kinda liking the idea of latex, if if spongy
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: is the in thing.
  Rosa Cleveland: I'm a little um I'm a little hesitant about it, because I'm worried about protecting the stuff on the inside.
  Ruth Beckwith: Okay.
  Rosa Cleveland: Um
  Alyson Pierce: Oh could it be hard, and then
  Ruth Beckwith: Uh yeah,
  Alyson Pierce: something around
  Ruth Beckwith: everything
  Alyson Pierce: it?
  Ruth Beckwith: I've
  Rosa Cleveland: Yeah, I would be more okay with like a titanium actual thing and then maybe
  Ruth Beckwith: N oh
  Rosa Cleveland: like
  Ruth Beckwith: wha
  Rosa Cleveland: a mobile phone
  Ruth Beckwith: what I've
  Rosa Cleveland: kind of thing.
  Ruth Beckwith: what I've seen, just not related to this,
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: but of latex cases before, is that there's uh like a hard plastic inside, and it's just covered with the latex.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: Not too thick a layer
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ruth Beckwith: of latex, just enough to be grippable,
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ruth Beckwith: like bike handles or or anything that you've seen like that. The inside is hard. I don't think we need to worry about protecting
  Rosa Cleveland: Ge o
  Ruth Beckwith: the circuit board, I think that that's done for us.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay.
  Ann Winston: 'Kay. Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: So we uh we do want latex.
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay. Latex. Um and probably in colours, maybe fruity, vegetable colours.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Fruity colours. Okay um let's go to the ufe user interface then we'll come back to the chip I suppose.
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh and we want a curved case, yeah? Or a double-curved?
  Rosa Cleveland: Well, we don't really know what the difference is, right?
  Alyson Pierce: I'm thinking curved of some sort.
  Rosa Cleveland: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah,
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: okay. We don't really know what the difference
  Rosa Cleveland: Um okay, interface, the type and the supplements. So
  Ann Winston: Um
  Rosa Cleveland: push or scroll, right?
  Ann Winston: Yep.
  Rosa Cleveland: Or both?
  Ann Winston: Um And I think if we wanna keep our costs down, we should just go for pushbuttons, 'cause then we can have a a simple chip and it's simpler, it's it's cheaper to make pushbuttons than it is a scroll button.
  Ruth Beckwith: Good point.
  Ann Winston: So in terms
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: of uh in terms of uh economics it's probably better to have pushbuttons.
  Rosa Cleveland: And if we had a sc an on-screen um kind of thing that you could scroll through, like you can use your buttons to scroll through things.
  Ann Winston: Yeah, yeah, it's uh
  Rosa Cleveland: I think
  Ann Winston: it's
  Rosa Cleveland: that
  Ann Winston: it's fairly simple.
  Rosa Cleveland: yeah. For channel surfing I think a scroll an actual like an iPod's kind of scroll thing would be too fast,
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: I dunno.
  Ruth Beckwith: I say pushbuttons at least unless we get any information but I have no idea how much more expensive a scroll wheel is than than a pushbutton, but it's gotta be some more expensive, so
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: I think it might be better to put our money into the stuff like the kinetic battery and the cool case
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Ruth Beckwith: because
  Rosa Cleveland: Is that okay
  Ann Winston: Interesting.
  Rosa Cleveland: with you? How you feeling?
  Alyson Pierce: Yeah. And let's like see if we get anything else. I mean I'm not like hard-sold on the scroll wheel, it's more just to give it a different kind of look,
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm.
  Alyson Pierce: but if it's gonna be in a latex type thing
  Rosa Cleveland: It might
  Alyson Pierce: and that's
  Rosa Cleveland: be cool
  Alyson Pierce: gonna look
  Rosa Cleveland: enough.
  Alyson Pierce: cool, then that's probably gonna have a bigger impact than the scroll wheel.
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay, so we're gonna go with um type pushbuttons,
  Ann Winston: Yep.
  Rosa Cleveland: and then supplements, how are we gonna do that?
  Ann Winston: Uh what do you mean by supplements, exactly?
  Rosa Cleveland: Um I assume that's what else we're gonna like h ha the um the additional buttons we can use.
  Ann Winston: Um
  Ruth Beckwith: Oh.
  Rosa Cleveland: So we're gonna have like a menu button,
  Ann Winston: Yep.
  Rosa Cleveland: so that we can access on-screen things
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: then? Okay, um
  Ruth Beckwith: Alright.
  Rosa Cleveland: so
  Ann Winston: Um
  Rosa Cleveland: we're
  Ann Winston: in
  Rosa Cleveland: doing an on-screen menu
  Ruth Beckwith: So what
  Rosa Cleveland: that
  Ruth Beckwith: are
  Rosa Cleveland: we
  Ann Winston: Yeah.
  Rosa Cleveland: can
  Ruth Beckwith: what
  Rosa Cleveland: scroll
  Ruth Beckwith: are our
  Rosa Cleveland: through.
  Ruth Beckwith: buttons gonna be? On off
  Ann Winston: On off, uh volume, favourite channels, uh
  Ruth Beckwith: So like one
  Ann Winston: and
  Ruth Beckwith: through
  Ann Winston: menu.
  Ruth Beckwith: five, or
  Ann Winston: Yeah,
  Alyson Pierce: Like a
  Ann Winston: yeah
  Alyson Pierce: radio
  Ann Winston: about
  Alyson Pierce: type sorta situation?
  Ann Winston: yeah like yeah, a bit like radio presets. Um
  Rosa Cleveland: Pre-set channels and then we're gonna need um numbers one through zero, right?
  Ann Winston: Uh we wouldn't even need
  Ruth Beckwith: No.
  Ann Winston: the numbers. I think maybe numbers seems is kind of
  Rosa Cleveland: Well,
  Ann Winston: old-fashioned.
  Rosa Cleveland: but in order to pre-set a cha oh I guess you can just hold it down
  Ann Winston: Yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: when you get
  Ann Winston: yeah,
  Rosa Cleveland: to one
  Ann Winston: you can just
  Ruth Beckwith: Mm.
  Rosa Cleveland: when you're scrolling through.
  Ann Winston: and you need some kind of, I dunno, sort of up down kind of button,
  Ruth Beckwith: Yeah,
  Ann Winston: but
  Ruth Beckwith: up
  Ann Winston: the volume
  Ruth Beckwith: down.
  Ann Winston: control could double for that, for example.
  Rosa Cleveland: Mm-hmm. Okay, um finishing the meeting now. Um our next meeting starts in thirty minutes, um you each have things to do, look and feel design, user interface design, product evaluation, and you two are going to work together on a prototype using modelling clay. You'll get specific
  Ruth Beckwith: Ooh.
  Rosa Cleveland: instructions
  Ann Winston: Cool.
  Rosa Cleveland: from your personal coach.
  Alyson Pierce: Wow.
  Rosa Cleveland: Um did we decide on a chip? Let's go with a simple chip?
  Ruth Beckwith: Simple chip.
  Ann Winston: Yep.
  Rosa Cleveland: Okay. We are done. Thank you everyone. Oh I di these are already in our shared folder,
  Ruth Beckwith: Okay, cool.
  Rosa Cleveland: so.
  Ruth Beckwith: Clay.
  Ann Winston: Clay. I wasn't expecting that.
Updated Content: Rosa Cleveland recapped the decisions made in the previous meeting. Ruth Beckwith discussed possible materials to use in making the case for the remote, options for buttons, and options for batteries. The interface specialist presented two existing products which incorporate features the team is seeking to embed in their remote. The interface specialist also discussed other features to possibly incorporate into the design of the remote, such as an LCD screen. Alyson Pierce discussed recent findings from trend watching reports and how to incorporate these findings into the remote design with respect to what materials to use and the overall appearance of the product. The team then discussed other options for how they could incorporate a fruit and vegetable theme into the appearance of their product. The team then discussed other options for batteries, chips, buttons, and materials for the case, as well as the option to have a menu function.