Extracted Content: Laura Brookhart: Okay um, welcome to our detailed design meeting I'm. pretty excited. Let's start it's approximately fifteen forty or something like that. Okay um the agenda we're gonna do an opening and then um I'll talk about the minutes from the last meeting, what we d discussed um, then we'll have the prototype presentation and a look at the evaluation criteria. We'll look at the finances and finally a do a production evaluation and close. So, starting off with the um last the last one, oh I don't have it here um, but we talked about energy, we're gonna use a kinetic battery um, we want to use a simple chip, because we're not gonna need a a shuffle um, we're gonna need a scroll um, we're choosing a latex case w in fruity colours that's curved and um we're using push buttons uh with a supplement of an on-screen menu. And it sounded like we had set um like eight or nine buttons, including five pre-set channels. Okay? Let's do the look and feel design presentation first.
  Jennifer Simpson: Right, do you wanna start?
  Mary Rodriguez: Right, well we made three different prototypes and I guess we'll start with with this one. Um we have our colours not are not fixed, but this is the general shape. Um it's you hold it sort of either like like this in your left hand or you switch it over and uh it's easily adaptable to either hand. You can push the buttons with your thumb like a mobile phone, or you can push them with your index finger of your other hand, or even mean there's whole variety, you can hold it like this and press it with your same index finger. Uh we have the on off button at the tip, very visible, very big. We have our up and down buttons, which are also gonna be our channel selectors, and we have our little menu button here. If you push if you're just pushing these normally, they're the menu buttons, if uh the volume buttons rather. If you press select once, they become channel changing buttons. If we press select three times, the menu with the other features and pro possibly also with your T_V_ channel choices shows up, and you have your five presets down here. Um if people wanna grab hold of that, see how it feels in your hand. That's our number one prototype. Um do you wanna present the potato,
  Laura Brookhart: like a little
  Mary Rodriguez: or
  Laura Brookhart: lightning
  Mary Rodriguez: shall I
  Jennifer Simpson: Okay,
  Mary Rodriguez: present
  Laura Brookhart: in it.
  Mary Rodriguez: the Martian?
  Jennifer Simpson: um
  Laura Brookhart: The little lightning bolt in it,
  Jennifer Simpson: What
  Laura Brookhart: very cute.
  Jennifer Simpson: We call that one
  Alta Hetzel: I could
  Jennifer Simpson: the rhombus, uh
  Laura Brookhart: The v the rhombus
  Jennifer Simpson: the rhombus.
  Mary Rodriguez: That's
  Laura Brookhart: rhombus?
  Mary Rodriguez: the rhombus, yep.
  Jennifer Simpson: Um this one is known as the potato, uh it's it's a how can I present it? It's an ergonomic shape, so it it fits in your hand nicely. Um it's designed to be used either in your left hand or or in your right hand. Um I've gone here just for just for four buttons on this one. Um two here for adjusting. So you've got volume up and volume down on the other side here. Um the red ones are for uh changing channels, channel up and channel down and that's um moves between your favourite channels that you've selected. Uh this middle button here brings up the on-screen menu and when you're working in the on-screen menu you use the other four buttons to navigate around the menu system and the middle button uh to select and that's basically it, that's the potato.
  Laura Brookhart: Um on, off?
  Jennifer Simpson: Uh that would be one of your channels, basically, so
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Jennifer Simpson: like channel zero would be t to switch
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah we turn
  Jennifer Simpson: switch
  Laura Brookhart: it off.
  Jennifer Simpson: the machine off, yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: Could the middle button of the on-screen menu function as a power button?
  Jennifer Simpson: Um not really, it would make it hard to turn
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Jennifer Simpson: the machine off, to turn your T_V_ off.
  Mary Rodriguez: If you pressed and held it maybe.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah
  Alta Hetzel: If you like
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah,
  Alta Hetzel: held
  Jennifer Simpson: that
  Alta Hetzel: it down,
  Jennifer Simpson: that'd be one
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: way of doing it, yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: that would be
  Jennifer Simpson: That'd
  Alta Hetzel: on
  Jennifer Simpson: work,
  Mary Rodriguez: On
  Alta Hetzel: off.
  Mary Rodriguez: off, that's
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: a possibility, yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Mary Rodriguez: And then finally we have um the Martian or the pear, either way. Um it's a bit different, just a little bit more of a creative feel. Uh you have the on off toggle stem on the top. We have the five preset seeds. And then you have on the sides to make it a little bit more three-dimensional, you have your channel changing, volume changing buttons and your menu button right here in the middle. So, that's for your consideration as well,
  Jennifer Simpson: Let's pass.
  Mary Rodriguez: plus it's an interesting talking point to have standing up. We figured it could stand up like this on your table,
  Laura Brookhart: Uh-huh.
  Mary Rodriguez: if you wanted it to, if I made the bot the bottom flat.
  Alta Hetzel: Sorry, what's the yellow one in the middle, I forgot.
  Mary Rodriguez: Uh the menu select button.
  Laura Brookhart: Very interesting. I
  Jennifer Simpson: So that's
  Laura Brookhart: think that one's my favourite.
  Jennifer Simpson: So that's our three prototypes. Um basically, in terms of making decisions, what we'd need to do is first of all decide on a form uh which of the three different shapes we want, then decide what kind of button layout we want, how many buttons, and then to choose what colours we want to make the buttons and if we wanna put any text on the device, like label on the buttons or put a brand name or or
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Jennifer Simpson: a logo on it or whatever.
  Mary Rodriguez: We were we were thinking that normally we'd go for fruity colours, but maybe we're also thinking that your sort of middle aged man, for an example customer, might not want a fruity coloured remote, so m maybe we'd have one version that's a bit toned down,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm 'kay.
  Mary Rodriguez: maybe with with less contrasts on it. Yeah,
  Jennifer Simpson: Would
  Mary Rodriguez: something still a little bright to make it
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah,
  Mary Rodriguez: hard to lose, but
  Jennifer Simpson: but we don't want it to look like a kids' toy.
  Mary Rodriguez: yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Now that was one thing that we brought up over email. I don't know if you picked up your email,
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: but um the f the um feature that we considered for it not getting lost.
  Mary Rodriguez: Right. Well we were we were talking about that a little bit when we got that email and we think that each of these are so distinctive, that it it's not just like another piece of technology around your house. It's gonna be somewhere that it can be seen.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: So we're we're not thinking that it's gonna be as critical
  Alta Hetzel: But if it's like under
  Mary Rodriguez: to have
  Alta Hetzel: covers
  Mary Rodriguez: the loss
  Alta Hetzel: or like in a couch you still
  Laura Brookhart: It's
  Alta Hetzel: can't
  Laura Brookhart: really
  Alta Hetzel: see it.
  Laura Brookhart: Would it be very difficult to um just have an external device that like I dunno, you tape to your to your T_V_ um that when you press it you ha a little light beep goes off? Do you think that would be conceptually possible?
  Jennifer Simpson: I
  Mary Rodriguez: I think
  Jennifer Simpson: think it would be difficult technologically,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Jennifer Simpson: because if your if your remote's lost it's probably under the settee and in that case you can't you can't send an infrared sing signal to it to
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Jennifer Simpson: find it, s so it's I'm not quite sure
  Laura Brookhart: That's true,
  Jennifer Simpson: how it
  Laura Brookhart: mm
  Jennifer Simpson: would work
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: and
  Laura Brookhart: 'kay.
  Jennifer Simpson: then I wonder if it's if it's more just a gimmick then anything else. Uh I mean ho how many times do you really, seriously lose your remote control and would would a device like that actually help you to find it?
  Mary Rodriguez: There might be something that you can do in the circuit board and the chip to make it make a noise or something, but it would take a lot more development
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: than we have this afternoon.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay, that's a fair evaluation. Getting lost. Um we so we do we've decided not to worry about that for now. Okay 'cause well, the designs are very bright, so you're right, they're gonna stick out, but um
  Mary Rodriguez: So d do people have a preference as far as feel and functionality? Um.
  Alta Hetzel: I feel like this is simil or it's sort of what already exists so if we're trying to think of something sort of like new and fun, even though this what you're init I'm initially drawn to, just 'cause it's like comfortable and like not different. I sort of like this one, like I I don't know why, it just it's like small but still sort of like cute looking, I dunno. But I also like the b the side buttons on that one,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: like I think that's kind of neat. But I dunno how much any of this has to do with the fashionable, sort of cool looking thing that we also need to focus on.
  Laura Brookhart: Could we maybe have like an extra button on the top for on off? So then w we wouldn't
  Mary Rodriguez: Mm
  Alta Hetzel: Ah,
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah,
  Laura Brookhart: have to
  Jennifer Simpson: it's
  Laura Brookhart: have like
  Jennifer Simpson: possible,
  Laura Brookhart: a dual
  Mary Rodriguez: yeah,
  Laura Brookhart: function?
  Mary Rodriguez: that's
  Alta Hetzel: there we
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah,
  Alta Hetzel: go.
  Mary Rodriguez: good, that's good.
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: Here, stick it on.
  Jennifer Simpson: Put an extra the
  Laura Brookhart: Sure.
  Jennifer Simpson: button on.
  Laura Brookhart: Um uh why don't we do a product evaluation using your criteria, if you've
  Alta Hetzel: Well
  Laura Brookhart: developed
  Alta Hetzel: do we w
  Laura Brookhart: some?
  Alta Hetzel: like I think we're supposed to have one that we do it for.
  Laura Brookhart: Oh okay. Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: That was
  Mary Rodriguez: So where
  Alta Hetzel: I was a little vague on what exactly I'm supposed to do, but let Alta Hetzel I have to like write something on
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: the whiteboard, so.
  Laura Brookhart: Do you need this or just write on the white
  Alta Hetzel: No,
  Laura Brookhart: board?
  Alta Hetzel: I actually don't have like a PowerPointy thing,
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: 'cause
  Mary Rodriguez: Right.
  Alta Hetzel: I think it would be redundant.
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: I dunno.
  Laura Brookhart: It's kind of like uh
  Mary Rodriguez: Ooh.
  Laura Brookhart: like a joystick kind of thing, you know, kinda push it.
  Jennifer Simpson: Cool.
  Mary Rodriguez: Hey.
  Laura Brookhart: 'Kay. Maybe a little smaller than that.
  Mary Rodriguez: No, I kinda like it. That's hard to miss.
  Jennifer Simpson: It makes look more fruity as well.
  Laura Brookhart: Oh it does, it's kind of like
  Jennifer Simpson: It's like a deformed foot, I dunno.
  Laura Brookhart: There it could have a stem like that, 'cause I do l kind of like the stem.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: Like
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah. It almost helps you ge keep a grip too, 'cause it goes
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: in between
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: fingers.
  Mary Rodriguez: Interesting.
  Laura Brookhart: I like this one.
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay, is that
  Laura Brookhart: Variety
  Mary Rodriguez: where people
  Laura Brookhart: of colours
  Mary Rodriguez: are leaning
  Laura Brookhart: are
  Mary Rodriguez: then,
  Laura Brookhart: nice.
  Mary Rodriguez: the potato? I like the idea
  Laura Brookhart: I think
  Mary Rodriguez: of the
  Laura Brookhart: I'm leaning towards the potato.
  Mary Rodriguez: I mean that's really gotten the simplicity of the buttons down, that one.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm. I am worried about like um using a menu. Um in that like i withing menus there are submenus,
  Mary Rodriguez: Hmm.
  Laura Brookhart: and so how do you
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: get back to the main menu?
  Mary Rodriguez: Well that on the iPod, for example, you just every time you wanna go back you hit the menu button again and it brings you back one level.
  Laura Brookhart: But that has a menu button separate from a select button, whereas if
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: this one's both the
  Mary Rodriguez: Good
  Laura Brookhart: menu
  Mary Rodriguez: point.
  Laura Brookhart: and the select button?
  Jennifer Simpson: This is, it's the up and down buttons are used for scrolling up and down for a list of choices.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Jennifer Simpson: You find the choice that you want and you press uh you press the right button uh.
  Laura Brookhart: Could these
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: be used for going to
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah,
  Laura Brookhart: submenus
  Jennifer Simpson: so they're used
  Laura Brookhart: or
  Jennifer Simpson: for going into and
  Mary Rodriguez: Maybe
  Jennifer Simpson: out of your submenus,
  Mary Rodriguez: yeah,
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: maybe it can
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Mary Rodriguez: be one of those, if you press down and hold for two seconds, then it brings you back one level or something.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, as long as we have that in mind as we're designing it still, mm 'kay.
  Alta Hetzel: Okay, so which one are we sort of roughly looking at to address whether or not it meets our s um necessities, the yellowy one is that
  Mary Rodriguez: The potato? Are we leaning
  Jennifer Simpson: Potato.
  Mary Rodriguez: towards the potato?
  Laura Brookhart: I think so.
  Alta Hetzel: Okay, well we can obviously change it after we go through each different
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: one. So basically what we need to do is some of the things that we've talked about before we need to make sure that that remote actually does
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: conform to the things that we said it was going to. So what we sort of wanna do is that we each need to separately rank each of the following things and then I'll tabulate an average just to make sure
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: that it does meet that. So we'll just go through them one at a time and we'll just go around and each of you can tell Alta Hetzel on a scale of one to seven with one being really extremely true and seven being not true at all, or false, if the remote that we've created conforms to the following criteria. So we can do this one first. First we wanna know if it meets the fancy look and feel um objective. So like in my opinion the for now at least, the yellow one is probably somewhere in the middle so I'm gonna say it's like a three. That's just my opinion.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: What does each of you
  Laura Brookhart: I I kind of think it's it's unique enough that I'd give it a one or a two.
  Alta Hetzel: Okay, well give it a number,
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: sorry.
  Laura Brookhart: I will give it a one.
  Mary Rodriguez: Um I dunno if it's it's creative. I dunno if fancy is the word I would use. I dunno if any of them are fancy in I'd say two, because
  Alta Hetzel: Okay.
  Mary Rodriguez: c unique.
  Alta Hetzel: And
  Jennifer Simpson: I'll go for two.
  Alta Hetzel: two, awesome. Alright, and same sort of scale for functionality, is it functional? I think it's extremely functional, I'm gonna give it a one.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, one.
  Alta Hetzel: One?
  Jennifer Simpson: I think it's it's functional, it's also pretty basic, so I'll give it a two.
  Alta Hetzel: Okay.
  Laura Brookhart: Um functional. I think it'll get everything done, I think it might be a little confusing at first, um,
  Alta Hetzel: Okay. Well there's some
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Alta Hetzel: other
  Laura Brookhart: don't know if that's
  Alta Hetzel: ones,
  Laura Brookhart: gonna
  Alta Hetzel: I
  Laura Brookhart: be
  Alta Hetzel: will
  Laura Brookhart: a later
  Alta Hetzel: address
  Laura Brookhart: one.
  Alta Hetzel: that, yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay, then I'm gonna give it a two.
  Alta Hetzel: Awesome, okay. Um we wanna know next if it's technologically innovative.
  Laura Brookhart: Did you give a functional?
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah, she said it was one.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: Um is it technologically innovative? Mm. Not really, I mean not so much, 'cause we we don't have the L_C_D_ screen, we don't have fancy chip. Other than what it looks like, I dunno if it's
  Laura Brookhart: Well, the kinetic
  Alta Hetzel: really
  Laura Brookhart: battery.
  Mary Rodriguez: In the battery,
  Alta Hetzel: I
  Mary Rodriguez: that's it.
  Alta Hetzel: kinetic battery is a big one, so.
  Mary Rodriguez: How many people
  Alta Hetzel: Mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: would notice that, though?
  Alta Hetzel: But it
  Laura Brookhart: But
  Alta Hetzel: but
  Laura Brookhart: they'll notice
  Alta Hetzel: we know
  Laura Brookhart: it after
  Alta Hetzel: it's there.
  Laura Brookhart: like a year, they'll be like hey, I have never changed the battery.
  Alta Hetzel: And if it's made of like latex, that whole
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: idea, that's pretty cool. I'll
  Laura Brookhart: Just
  Alta Hetzel: give it
  Laura Brookhart: the
  Alta Hetzel: a
  Laura Brookhart: material.
  Alta Hetzel: three. 'Cause it we could've picked a lot of features that would've made it really
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah. I I would say that it's Yeah, like fancy versus creative it's it's different. But does that equal innovative? I dunno. I'll give it a three.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright. Everyone else?
  Jennifer Simpson: I'd say it's technologically it's not it's not unique, I mean it's it's just it is just pushbuttons um, so I I'd give it a four.
  Laura Brookhart: Think I'm gonna go with the four as well.
  Alta Hetzel: Mm 'kay.
  Laura Brookhart: I really like that kinetic battery though.
  Alta Hetzel: Next, is it easy to use? Just so you know, easy to learn will be separate,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm
  Alta Hetzel: so don't
  Laura Brookhart: 'kay.
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: overlap them. I think it's really easy to use. I'll give it a two.
  Mary Rodriguez: Um I'll give it a one. Pretty hard to mess up.
  Jennifer Simpson: I'll say one.
  Laura Brookhart: Uh let's say two.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright. Um we next wanna see if it has a spongy quality and if indeed it's made of latex or rubber I it's spongy all the way.
  Laura Brookhart: Give it a one.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: I wonder if it bounces when you drop it.
  Mary Rodriguez: Ooh,
  Alta Hetzel: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: that you couldn't it'd be harder to break, harder to lose.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: 'Cause there would be less impact maybe,
  Alta Hetzel: Iain, what
  Mary Rodriguez: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: do you give
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah
  Alta Hetzel: it?
  Jennifer Simpson: I'd I'd give it a one.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright and the next is, does it integrate some notion of fruits and vegetables?
  Jennifer Simpson: Uh um.
  Alta Hetzel: Well, is it gonna be yellow?
  Mary Rodriguez: It it might be, 'cause that's our corporate colour, isn't it?
  Laura Brookhart: That's right, yeah, corporate
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: colour, we didn't keep that in
  Mary Rodriguez: We might
  Laura Brookhart: um
  Mary Rodriguez: wanna keep it yellow.
  Laura Brookhart: well if we I know it would make it a little less c a little more confusing, but if we had all the buttons in black, and a design in and the outside in yellow, that'd be our corporate one and we could also have alternative colours, one a more conservative one, one
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah,
  Laura Brookhart: that's
  Alta Hetzel: but if
  Laura Brookhart: more
  Alta Hetzel: you had
  Laura Brookhart: fruity.
  Alta Hetzel: like a silvery kind of white or something.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah,
  Laura Brookhart: Um and
  Mary Rodriguez: If
  Laura Brookhart: can
  Mary Rodriguez: we
  Laura Brookhart: we
  Mary Rodriguez: had
  Laura Brookhart: have
  Mary Rodriguez: a yellow
  Laura Brookhart: like an R_R_ inscribed on the bottom or something?
  Mary Rodriguez: Sure.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: Oh,
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: yeah. Alright, so
  Laura Brookhart: Fruity,
  Mary Rodriguez: So,
  Alta Hetzel: I think it
  Laura Brookhart: so
  Alta Hetzel: it's
  Laura Brookhart: fruity.
  Mary Rodriguez: so I think
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: it's pretty
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Mary Rodriguez: fruity.
  Laura Brookhart: think i it's kind of mangoey too.
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh,
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: Mangoey
  Mary Rodriguez: mango
  Alta Hetzel: I
  Jennifer Simpson: is
  Alta Hetzel: okay,
  Jennifer Simpson: better,
  Laura Brookhart: Yes.
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: that
  Alta Hetzel: I'm giving
  Jennifer Simpson: I
  Alta Hetzel: it a one
  Mary Rodriguez: that
  Alta Hetzel: the mango
  Jennifer Simpson: like mangoes.
  Alta Hetzel: put Alta Hetzel over.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: That's a much more trendy than a potato
  Alta Hetzel: What are what's everyone's numbers?
  Mary Rodriguez: one.
  Jennifer Simpson: Uh two.
  Laura Brookhart: One.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright um, and does the design match the appropriate behaviour? Remember earlier we discussed that people don't use a lot of buttons, that they use the channel flipping and the volume the most. I think we really took that into account a lot, so I'm gonna give it a one.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, Alta Hetzel too.
  Jennifer Simpson: Uh one.
  Alta Hetzel: Did you say one, Rose?
  Laura Brookhart: Yes.
  Alta Hetzel: Okay um, also we talked earlier about R_S_I_ and wanting to prevent um any sort of like Carpal Tunnely kind of thing. Do we think that the latex sort of grip appropriately takes that into account? I think I'll give it a two, matter what you do, something
  Laura Brookhart: It's gonna
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: is
  Laura Brookhart: be
  Alta Hetzel: gonna
  Laura Brookhart: hard.
  Alta Hetzel: happen.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah, yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: And if it's repetitive movement it is gonna be only four buttons that you're constantly pushing, but um
  Alta Hetzel: Um um worth the risk,
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Alta Hetzel: I
  Laura Brookhart: like
  Alta Hetzel: think.
  Laura Brookhart: how it fits in the hand though
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: I'd go with a two.
  Mary Rodriguez: I'll I'll say two as well. Because older people that aren't used to like texting with the thumb might find it a bit
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: 'Kay.
  Mary Rodriguez: at first, but
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah I'll I'll say two.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright, awesome. And the ease of learning it. I know you were saying that you're a little bit nervous about that, I dunno. It sort of reminds Alta Hetzel of the iPod. I just got mine, I still haven't read the instruction book and I'm doing okay,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: so and I'm not good at learning technology. So I'll give it a two.
  Mary Rodriguez: The menu system and the the fact that multiple buttons are used for different things might be a bit confusing, but I think if it's one it's one of those things that it might take you five minutes to figure out, but you'll have it afterwards.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: So I'd I think I'd give it a two I guess.
  Jennifer Simpson: I think it it's probably a little harder then most remotes to learn, because you have to you have to use the menu system and you have to tell it what your favourite channels are and
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh,
  Jennifer Simpson: that
  Mary Rodriguez: good
  Jennifer Simpson: could
  Mary Rodriguez: point.
  Jennifer Simpson: take a bit of learning at first,
  Alta Hetzel: Mm-hmm.
  Jennifer Simpson: but once you've, yeah once you'd learned how to use it, I think it is a lot easier. So I'd I'd give it a four.
  Alta Hetzel: Okay.
  Laura Brookhart: I think I'd give it a four too. It's a pretty high learning curve, it'll be easy once you've done it, but
  Alta Hetzel: Mm-hmm.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright, um also earlier we had something about losing it and so now we're not addressing that at all, so
  Laura Brookhart: We we I think we can kind of say we addressed it with colour,
  Alta Hetzel: Okay, so
  Laura Brookhart: but
  Alta Hetzel: in terms of not losing it, do you think that on a scale of one to seven, how easy or hard is it to lose? I'm gonna I'm gonna give it a four, 'cause I think that you can still if it's in between somewhere where you can't see it, you're kind of not gonna find it, but
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: anywhere
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: else it's gonna stand out.
  Mary Rodriguez: Um I'd say I'd give it uh a three, I guess it depends on how tidy you are normally.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm I'd give it a four.
  Jennifer Simpson: Um I'll give it a five 'cause i it would be easy to lose something like
  Laura Brookhart: Small
  Jennifer Simpson: that,
  Laura Brookhart: too.
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright, we also said simplicity, how w how well does it address just being simple?
  Mary Rodriguez: Simple to use or simple in design? Do you
  Alta Hetzel: I
  Mary Rodriguez: know?
  Alta Hetzel: think overall, 'cause we had said before our two main things were simplicity and fashion, so those are the next two things we're gonna look at. Separate from fancy, like
  Mary Rodriguez: Right.
  Alta Hetzel: that sort of thing. Um it like wants to be simple but it's not like totally totally simple, so I'm gonna give it a two.
  Mary Rodriguez: I'm give it a three I guess.
  Jennifer Simpson: I'll give it a two.
  Laura Brookhart: Three.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright, and fashionable?
  Laura Brookhart: It's totally fashionable.
  Alta Hetzel: It's
  Laura Brookhart: I'd
  Alta Hetzel: hot,
  Laura Brookhart: give it a one.
  Alta Hetzel: I mean it's a mango, come on.
  Laura Brookhart: Mango.
  Alta Hetzel: I mean how fashionable can you make a remote? I think it's bringing technology and fashion together real really well.
  Mary Rodriguez: I dunno. I don't think it's quite as fashionable as my robot remote
  Laura Brookhart: I do like uh the little
  Mary Rodriguez: or
  Laura Brookhart: Martian
  Mary Rodriguez: alien
  Laura Brookhart: one.
  Mary Rodriguez: or whatever he was.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah, the toggle on off switch, it's really appealing. Number.
  Mary Rodriguez: Um two.
  Jennifer Simpson: Three.
  Laura Brookhart: One.
  Alta Hetzel: And does it meet our like demographic need sort of for international appeal, that whole thing? Just that it would se serve our audience. I don't see why not.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm. I think as long if we offer in a in at least three different colour arrangements. Um
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: yeah,
  Alta Hetzel: Mm-hmm.
  Laura Brookhart: that's good. So I'll give it a a two.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, I'll say two.
  Alta Hetzel: Alright, did anyone have any other features that they think were important that we didn't talk about?
  Laura Brookhart: Well um we didn't we didn't address the fact that it does need to b have a corporate logo, so let's let's make sure we keep that in mind that we ha that one of our colours concepts is
  Mary Rodriguez: Shall
  Laura Brookhart: corporate
  Mary Rodriguez: we uh
  Laura Brookhart: and has an R_R_ on it.
  Mary Rodriguez: Well I think all of them
  Laura Brookhart: All
  Mary Rodriguez: should
  Laura Brookhart: of them
  Mary Rodriguez: have
  Laura Brookhart: should
  Mary Rodriguez: an
  Laura Brookhart: have
  Mary Rodriguez: R_R_.
  Laura Brookhart: R_R_, yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: And so we're gonna do that, so it will address
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: it,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm
  Alta Hetzel: fine.
  Laura Brookhart: 'kay.
  Alta Hetzel: Okay. That's
  Laura Brookhart: Lovely.
  Alta Hetzel: Alta Hetzel.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay, now we're gonna look at finances. Um I have an Excel sheet that we're actually gonna calculate the cost um, so let Alta Hetzel exit out of this first. Okay um
  Alta Hetzel: Whoa.
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh my.
  Laura Brookhart: I know. Let Alta Hetzel one more space. Gonna zoom in real quick. Okay. Hand dynamo. We're using
  Mary Rodriguez: Uh
  Laura Brookhart: kinetic
  Mary Rodriguez: we're
  Laura Brookhart: battery,
  Mary Rodriguez: n using
  Laura Brookhart: right?
  Mary Rodriguez: kinetic, yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Um and we're having one per
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: One, okay. Um electronics.
  Mary Rodriguez: Single. Simple,
  Laura Brookhart: Simple.
  Alta Hetzel: Simple.
  Mary Rodriguez: simple rather.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm 'kay. Um the case.
  Mary Rodriguez: Uh uh uh
  Jennifer Simpson: Guess
  Mary Rodriguez: double-curved.
  Jennifer Simpson: it's double-curved. It is pretty curvy.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: It's very curvy, so okay.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah I never did get a picture of those so I don't really know. Our case material supplements oops, we just skipped
  Alta Hetzel: Well
  Mary Rodriguez: by
  Alta Hetzel: don't
  Mary Rodriguez: them.
  Alta Hetzel: we need plastic, and
  Mary Rodriguez: No, we we the plastic is the plastic for the inside is assumed.
  Alta Hetzel: Provided,
  Mary Rodriguez: The
  Alta Hetzel: okay.
  Mary Rodriguez: supplement is
  Laura Brookhart: The wood?
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh, I guess it was rubber rather
  Laura Brookhart: I mean
  Mary Rodriguez: than
  Alta Hetzel: It was
  Laura Brookhart: the
  Alta Hetzel: rubber
  Mary Rodriguez: latex.
  Laura Brookhart: rubber.
  Alta Hetzel: and special colour, right?
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm, okay.
  Alta Hetzel: Do we have more than one special colour?
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah,
  Mary Rodriguez: Uh
  Laura Brookhart: we're using
  Mary Rodriguez: well
  Laura Brookhart: we're gonna
  Jennifer Simpson: Special colours,
  Laura Brookhart: need at least
  Jennifer Simpson: isn't
  Laura Brookhart: two
  Jennifer Simpson: it?
  Laura Brookhart: special colours. Um.
  Mary Rodriguez: I don't know what
  Alta Hetzel: Per
  Mary Rodriguez: the se the basic colour
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Mary Rodriguez: is
  Laura Brookhart: dunno
  Mary Rodriguez: though.
  Laura Brookhart: where it yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: Well, but we know that we're having at least three colours,
  Laura Brookhart: So
  Alta Hetzel: so
  Laura Brookhart: let's y say
  Mary Rodriguez: Well,
  Laura Brookhart: three.
  Mary Rodriguez: are we talking about on each colour combination or are we, you know, we'll like we'll have yellow and black. Is that two special colours?
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah, I dunno.
  Mary Rodriguez: Or
  Laura Brookhart: That
  Mary Rodriguez: or
  Laura Brookhart: I thi
  Mary Rodriguez: is
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Mary Rodriguez: white and
  Laura Brookhart: thought
  Mary Rodriguez: black,
  Laura Brookhart: that would be under
  Mary Rodriguez: then
  Laura Brookhart: yours.
  Mary Rodriguez: two more or Uh. I guess it's three,
  Laura Brookhart: We'll just say three.
  Mary Rodriguez: three three.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: Right.
  Mary Rodriguez: Alright.
  Laura Brookhart: Maybe the R_R_ will be in colour as well, so yeah. Interface, we're doing push buttons.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: And how many buttons do we
  Alta Hetzel: We
  Laura Brookhart: have?
  Alta Hetzel: have
  Jennifer Simpson: We've got
  Alta Hetzel: six.
  Jennifer Simpson: five.
  Alta Hetzel: Oh
  Mary Rodriguez: Six,
  Alta Hetzel: no,
  Jennifer Simpson: Oh
  Laura Brookhart: Six.
  Alta Hetzel: five.
  Jennifer Simpson: six.
  Mary Rodriguez: with the power. Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Anything else?
  Mary Rodriguez: No. Oh, we'll do we wa Are the buttons in special colour, special f I didn't get information on
  Alta Hetzel: Oh wait.
  Laura Brookhart: Oh, buttons oh, so um. So the case material will just have one colour, right, but
  Mary Rodriguez: Well,
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: then the buttons
  Mary Rodriguez: does it
  Laura Brookhart: will be in special colours?
  Mary Rodriguez: but if we're making multiple varieties of this is where I'm getting confused.
  Laura Brookhart: We're saying per unit.
  Mary Rodriguez: per unit,
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah, per
  Mary Rodriguez: okay,
  Alta Hetzel: unit.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay,
  Mary Rodriguez: okay.
  Laura Brookhart: so each unit will only have one colour
  Mary Rodriguez: Alright, and each
  Laura Brookhart: on their
  Mary Rodriguez: button
  Laura Brookhart: but the case is
  Mary Rodriguez: s
  Laura Brookhart: could have up to thr I mean the buttons could ea could be up to three colours, 'cause that
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: how it's designed there.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: I like
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah,
  Alta Hetzel: it like that.
  Laura Brookhart: So
  Mary Rodriguez: okay.
  Laura Brookhart: Special form? They're all kind of just push button,
  Mary Rodriguez: No, I think
  Laura Brookhart: right?
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: they're fine.
  Laura Brookhart: Special material?
  Mary Rodriguez: Material, we want them rubber as well probably, yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Uh. Oh do I have to do it per button, do I?
  Mary Rodriguez: No, I don't think so. I think they're if they're all
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Mary Rodriguez: gonna be rubber then it that's what it matters.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah, 'cause
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: it wouldn't make sense
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: otherwise, 'cause for the whole mat case material it's only one.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: It's I mean it's two to make it rubber.
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay.
  Alta Hetzel: Oh wait, so maybe.
  Laura Brookhart: Thirteen point seven.
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh oh.
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah, what can we reduce?
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay, let's have our buttons all be one colour.
  Alta Hetzel: Mm, I kind of like
  Laura Brookhart: Let's
  Alta Hetzel: the
  Laura Brookhart: see
  Alta Hetzel: buttons.
  Laura Brookhart: what that would do. It's only gonna bring us down to thirteen point three anyway.
  Mary Rodriguez: Alright.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay um,
  Mary Rodriguez: Uh.
  Laura Brookhart: are we sure this is double-curved? Maybe it's single-curved,
  Mary Rodriguez: We have no idea.
  Laura Brookhart: we have no idea.
  Mary Rodriguez: I dunno, I didn't get any pictures.
  Alta Hetzel: It's
  Mary Rodriguez: It's single curved.
  Alta Hetzel: single curved.
  Mary Rodriguez: Why not?
  Laura Brookhart: Well it's not the yeah. Okay, it's the kinetic battery that's kind of expensive, but we have a simple chip, single curve, case material is rubber and it's a special colour,
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: but that's important.
  Mary Rodriguez: That is important.
  Laura Brookhart: Six buttons
  Mary Rodriguez: How did
  Laura Brookhart: we
  Mary Rodriguez: it get
  Laura Brookhart: have
  Mary Rodriguez: more
  Laura Brookhart: to
  Mary Rodriguez: expensive,
  Laura Brookhart: have six buttons.
  Mary Rodriguez: what did you just change?
  Laura Brookhart: What?
  Mary Rodriguez: It was it was thirteen and now it's fifteen.
  Laura Brookhart: No, okay, maybe not. I don't know what just happened. Now it's
  Alta Hetzel: We
  Laura Brookhart: twelve.
  Jennifer Simpson: What was our target price again?
  Mary Rodriguez: Twelve
  Laura Brookhart: Twelve
  Mary Rodriguez: point five.
  Laura Brookhart: point five.
  Mary Rodriguez: Hey
  Jennifer Simpson: Twelve
  Mary Rodriguez: hey.
  Jennifer Simpson: point five. So we're just
  Laura Brookhart: So we're
  Jennifer Simpson: just
  Laura Brookhart: okay,
  Jennifer Simpson: about there.
  Mary Rodriguez: We're all
  Laura Brookhart: I think.
  Mary Rodriguez: set then.
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: Ish.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay,
  Mary Rodriguez: Alright.
  Laura Brookhart: we're all set. Um save. I saved that to our um our big shared folder, so you know. Um okay, back to agenda. Um are the are the costs under twelve fifty Euro?
  Mary Rodriguez: Yes.
  Laura Brookhart: Yes.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah,
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: they are.
  Laura Brookhart: Let's move on to the project evaluation. Project process. Satisfaction with for example the room for creativity, leadership, teamwork, the means, any new ideas found. So I guess what we're gonna talk about here is just evaluating how we created this project, the information we got on the news, how we used it, if we were able to um, you know, use our creativity with the information, um how how well I guess I led it, um the how well we worked together as a team, um the digital pens, the whiteboard.
  Mary Rodriguez: Well.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay.
  Mary Rodriguez: I felt very creative. I enjoyed making the prototypes.
  Jennifer Simpson: I think we've been successful in that we've achieved almost all of the design goals that we've set
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: and we've come up with a finished project and we just about got cost.
  Mary Rodriguez: I think we could've done even better with a little bit more information, like
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: what's a single-curved case, how many colours, what do colours count
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: things, but given given what we had I think that we did we did really well. Um I think we worked together pretty well.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah, I mean if I'd had more market research on the fruits
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: and vegetables, maybe we could've taken that into account.
  Mary Rodriguez: But the fruits and vegetables, they really my creativity, so.
  Alta Hetzel: I know, I really did, the the whole mango idea was great. No, I mean
  Mary Rodriguez: Do you think we
  Alta Hetzel: I
  Mary Rodriguez: could
  Alta Hetzel: thought the pen was a little distracting for Alta Hetzel personally, like its heaviness, and like just being so conscious of like turning the pages, I dunno. That was a bit of a distraction.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: That was the last one, like I chose not to do a PowerPoint 'cause I didn't think it made sense to, so I liked that I had the option to do that and just to take my own notes and
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: that whole sort of thing.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: I think we all made um very significant contributions, I don't think anybody dominated it, which I thought was really good, like each of us was able to um like each of you had your information and I uh I tried to facilitate it without like taking over, um
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: I like our little finished products.
  Alta Hetzel: They're funny.
  Laura Brookhart: Really cute.
  Alta Hetzel: I kind of want one.
  Mary Rodriguez: Can we market this as the mango remote? Should we have that somewhere on the packaging? I have a little
  Alta Hetzel: I'm
  Mary Rodriguez: R_R_.
  Alta Hetzel: trying to think of a good pun that I could add there.
  Laura Brookhart: I know, let's think of it like a little jingle. Um.
  Alta Hetzel: I like the R_R_, that's gonna be etched in.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yes. Hopefully not with just my fingernail at some point but um it's quite a useful little gadget. All thanks to Iain for the design of that one.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay um
  Mary Rodriguez: Mm. What did we
  Laura Brookhart: new
  Mary Rodriguez: find
  Laura Brookhart: ideas
  Mary Rodriguez: for new ideas?
  Laura Brookhart: found?
  Mary Rodriguez: People should really base their remotes on fruits and vegetables.
  Laura Brookhart: Definitely.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Or or at least be c p creative enough to think of toggle switches mm
  Mary Rodriguez: I
  Laura Brookhart: etcetera.
  Mary Rodriguez: I am really into the idea of kinetic batteries now
  Laura Brookhart: Oh, I'm
  Mary Rodriguez: after
  Laura Brookhart: so
  Mary Rodriguez: reading
  Laura Brookhart: excited.
  Mary Rodriguez: about them.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah,
  Mary Rodriguez: That
  Alta Hetzel: I didn't
  Mary Rodriguez: was
  Alta Hetzel: even know they existed.
  Mary Rodriguez: I I knew you can get watches that had them, like really quite expensive watches that just never need a battery, 'cause you're always moving your wrist.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: But in other things, I think it'd be really good.
  Laura Brookhart: I thi yeah, that's awesome. Um okay, closing. Are the costs within the budget? Is the project
  Mary Rodriguez: Yes.
  Laura Brookhart: evaluated? Now there's the final questionnaire and meeting summary. Um so, this is the great product kids, I think we've created something really interesting and that we have a market for it, um
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: especially if we can produce it at twelve point three which we hope um yeah. Make sure in your questionnaire to put down criticisms of both the process and the um the final results and.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah, Real Reaction.
  Laura Brookhart: I do like the Martian remote. If we could choose more than one, that would be my second choice.
  Alta Hetzel: Oh, that would definitely be my second choice.
  Jennifer Simpson: Mm.
  Laura Brookhart: Although the tog toggle I'm afraid
  Jennifer Simpson: That's
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Jennifer Simpson: cool.
  Laura Brookhart: would
  Jennifer Simpson: Let's
  Alta Hetzel: I
  Jennifer Simpson: all
  Alta Hetzel: would break
  Jennifer Simpson: let's all
  Alta Hetzel: it.
  Jennifer Simpson: go for
  Laura Brookhart: It's
  Jennifer Simpson: the
  Laura Brookhart: cool.
  Jennifer Simpson: yellow
  Alta Hetzel: I would break it.
  Laura Brookhart: I think I would break it.
  Mary Rodriguez: It
  Jennifer Simpson: Break
  Mary Rodriguez: started
  Jennifer Simpson: the stem
  Mary Rodriguez: because
  Jennifer Simpson: off.
  Mary Rodriguez: I wanted to have it as st as a stem and then alright, so
  Alta Hetzel: Oh that's funny.
  Mary Rodriguez: Is it started as a pear, but then it started looking more and more like a Martian when I put
  Alta Hetzel: Kind
  Mary Rodriguez: the
  Alta Hetzel: of looks like a penguin, like with no eye.
  Laura Brookhart: Oh
  Mary Rodriguez: Take
  Laura Brookhart: yeah, it's
  Mary Rodriguez: Alta Hetzel
  Laura Brookhart: kind of a
  Mary Rodriguez: to
  Laura Brookhart: penguin.
  Mary Rodriguez: your leader.
  Alta Hetzel: I like that it stands up.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: Wow, maybe I should market it to some remote control company now. So are are
  Jennifer Simpson: That was
  Alta Hetzel: Oh,
  Jennifer Simpson: bound to happen
  Alta Hetzel: sad.
  Mary Rodriguez: poor little thing.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm 'kay, congratulations. Um. Anything else to say?
  Alta Hetzel: Nothing will come up until after our meeting's supposed to be over,
  Laura Brookhart: Alright.
  Alta Hetzel: its all timed.
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh.
  Laura Brookhart: Um anybody
  Alta Hetzel: Oh.
  Laura Brookhart: have I got more master classes, anybody else wanna like take a master's class?
  Mary Rodriguez: It's really funny that you got spam in your work emails.
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah, but check it out. So like there are all these like links, they don't go anywhere. But all that you need to keep in mind your knowledge management. Um just wanna make sure you do.
  Alta Hetzel: No the first one that you sent like I didn't realise that it was a joke and I was like why did she send this
  Laura Brookhart: Oh
  Alta Hetzel: to us? It's very it's very work relevant, 'cause people
  Laura Brookhart: It is.
  Alta Hetzel: send spam a lot.
  Laura Brookhart: Yes definitely I'm very sad that I didn't get any links to the corporate website.
  Alta Hetzel: Oh here you can
  Mary Rodriguez: Let's see,
  Alta Hetzel: you can
  Mary Rodriguez: what
  Alta Hetzel: view.
  Mary Rodriguez: did I get through the corporate website? It's
  Alta Hetzel: You can
  Mary Rodriguez: just
  Alta Hetzel: just see what's
  Mary Rodriguez: inspiration
  Alta Hetzel: up.
  Mary Rodriguez: about circuit boards.
  Laura Brookhart: Wow.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah it's it's really deep. Hold on. Takes a little while to get excited to load. That the Excel thing is pretty cool.
  Laura Brookhart: Yes.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, that
  Alta Hetzel: Here,
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Mary Rodriguez: is
  Laura Brookhart: love
  Alta Hetzel: like,
  Mary Rodriguez: pretty
  Laura Brookhart: Excel,
  Mary Rodriguez: neat.
  Laura Brookhart: it's
  Alta Hetzel: basically
  Laura Brookhart: one of my favourite programs.
  Alta Hetzel: it's like inspiration, basically I'm gonna give you two sentences on fashion and that kind of thing, see. You didn't miss
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Alta Hetzel: out
  Laura Brookhart: see,
  Alta Hetzel: that much.
  Laura Brookhart: mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, my inspiration from from last time
  Laura Brookhart: Spongy.
  Mary Rodriguez: is the in interior of a remote control being taken apart bit by bit, talking about circuit boards. I learned a lot actually.
  Jennifer Simpson: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: Oh wow.
  Mary Rodriguez: I could probably take apart a remote control now if I really needed to.
  Alta Hetzel: This one was cooler. I got a whole table and everything.
  Mary Rodriguez: Now I have all about circuits and chips and transponders and I wrote it all down, because I thought it would be relevant, like all the different parts of the inside of a remote control, but then they're like, you don't actually need this you just
  Alta Hetzel: That's
  Mary Rodriguez: need
  Alta Hetzel: like
  Mary Rodriguez: to
  Alta Hetzel: mine
  Mary Rodriguez: talk
  Alta Hetzel: it
  Mary Rodriguez: about
  Alta Hetzel: was like,
  Mary Rodriguez: the case.
  Alta Hetzel: would you prefer an L_C_D_ screen or a multifunction remote control? And then it didn't have like any kind of table, like awesome, I'm glad they asked that question and didn't report the result.
  Mary Rodriguez: It's really
  Laura Brookhart: I
  Mary Rodriguez: interesting though.
  Laura Brookhart: I thought it was a little tricky having to hand around this thing.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: We had a lot of the um
  Jennifer Simpson: I
  Laura Brookhart: otherwise
  Jennifer Simpson: think.
  Laura Brookhart: the technology today was kinda cool.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: That was really neat how I got emails
  Jennifer Simpson: We didn't
  Mary Rodriguez: and
  Jennifer Simpson: we didn't
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Jennifer Simpson: use the whiteboard that much.
  Laura Brookhart: No.
  Mary Rodriguez: No.
  Laura Brookhart: Although I don't see how we could have very l at least for Alta Hetzel I
  Mary Rodriguez: I yeah. If I'd gotten pictures of the different parts of the case, the different looks of the case, I would have probably drawn them up, but
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: 'Cause we weren't like voting on anything and I think usually, like whiteboards are good, you know like crossing out ideas, or like if we had had like a brainstorming
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, we could've
  Alta Hetzel: period.
  Mary Rodriguez: put our brainstorming stuff up there rather than just talking about it, but
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: But I thought we were good orally.
  Mary Rodriguez: with only four people it doesn't really make sense.
  Alta Hetzel: Get
  Mary Rodriguez: I think if you
  Laura Brookhart: And
  Mary Rodriguez: had
  Laura Brookhart: with
  Mary Rodriguez: a larger
  Alta Hetzel: crazy.
  Laura Brookhart: and
  Mary Rodriguez: group
  Laura Brookhart: with the PowerPoint that we can all look at, like you
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: can do all those things pretty much on PowerPoint
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: as that's
  Alta Hetzel: And
  Laura Brookhart: not
  Alta Hetzel: these
  Laura Brookhart: as necessary
  Alta Hetzel: might've
  Laura Brookhart: to have.
  Alta Hetzel: made us more willing to like take notes than to like
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: write up them here, 'cause we all needed them separately, kind of on the whiteboards in
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: this room.
  Mary Rodriguez: Because we're all gonna be working in different places.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: We if we were all gonna stay in here all the time, then
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: having the notes up on the whiteboard would've been alright, but everyone needs their own, like specific notes, I guess.
  Laura Brookhart: Now when you were um creating your um prototypes here, did you work together or did you like do separate projects?
  Jennifer Simpson: Uh we we worked together,
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: um but we were making like we sort of made different shapes and then discussed how the how the buttons might work,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah. So it was a bit of both really, we just kind of started out by each taking a colour of clay and just fooling around with it and I came up with that rhombus shape and he came
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: up with the sort of potatoey, mangoey shape, and then just went from there really.
  Laura Brookhart: Cool.
  Mary Rodriguez: It was fun.
  Mary Rodriguez: So well done with the management, I felt well managed.
  Laura Brookhart: Oh thanks.
  Jennifer Simpson: I think we did well in
  Laura Brookhart: It's kinda fun.
  Jennifer Simpson: first of all giving our meetings the time, and second we actually we we did a good job of making firm decisions at the ends of the meetings.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: Sorry.
  Jennifer Simpson: And I
  Mary Rodriguez: That happened to Alta Hetzel all the time though.
  Jennifer Simpson: I know what happens sometimes is that you tend to sort of have meetings and then people sorta drift away without anything actually really being decided.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Jennifer Simpson: But I think here we got we got clear and and decisive decisive points at the end of the meetings, so that we we knew where to go on from there.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, I was quite worried at the end of the last meeting that we weren't getting we didn't really have enough information to make firm decisions,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: but we were able to do it regardless, so. I'm not usually a very decisive person, so it helped to have people say this needs
  Laura Brookhart: This
  Mary Rodriguez: to
  Laura Brookhart: is
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: be
  Laura Brookhart: what
  Mary Rodriguez: done
  Laura Brookhart: we'll do.
  Mary Rodriguez: in five minutes.
  Laura Brookhart: I found that we did we could have used another five or ten minutes sometimes
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah, for
  Mary Rodriguez: Especially
  Jennifer Simpson: some
  Laura Brookhart: in
  Jennifer Simpson: of
  Laura Brookhart: the
  Jennifer Simpson: the
  Laura Brookhart: meetings.
  Jennifer Simpson: meetings,
  Mary Rodriguez: last
  Jennifer Simpson: yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: time,
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah I think the last time we had a lot of information,
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah,
  Laura Brookhart: but at the same time not quite enough,
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: you know what I mean,
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: like we
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: we couldn't answer every single question.
  Mary Rodriguez: Right.
  Laura Brookhart: Um but
  Mary Rodriguez: And I I felt the first two meetings, that I was coming in with no information, and not sort
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: of made Alta Hetzel really like, ooh I don't know, throwing together PowerPoint out of no no information and then last time it was like the opposite. I had so much information and so much to talk about.
  Laura Brookhart: It was interesting what came out like later, like as I was doing
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: the when I was doing the breakdown on the agenda that they gave Alta Hetzel um, that more points came out from your
  Mary Rodriguez: Mm.
  Laura Brookhart: presentation even. Um. I'm a little I am a little disappointed that we didn't do a um something for losing the remote, because
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: that was kind of a big point.
  Mary Rodriguez: that was something like in order to talk about that we would've had to have actual knowledge about circuit boards
  Laura Brookhart: About
  Mary Rodriguez: and
  Laura Brookhart: yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: things
  Alta Hetzel: Well the problem
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: like
  Alta Hetzel: was, even when we just were creating from the Excel file, there wasn't like a option to select to somehow
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: have it included, so there was no we could be like yeah, it
  Mary Rodriguez: I
  Alta Hetzel: has
  Mary Rodriguez: think
  Alta Hetzel: it
  Mary Rodriguez: we
  Alta Hetzel: included.
  Mary Rodriguez: were
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: There was no way for us to have
  Laura Brookhart: Considered
  Alta Hetzel: written
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: down
  Laura Brookhart: the re
  Alta Hetzel: that
  Laura Brookhart: yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: it was really there.
  Mary Rodriguez: I think we were just getting overenthusiastic with the task.
  Laura Brookhart: Well it's interesting
  Mary Rodriguez: I think we really
  Laura Brookhart: that
  Mary Rodriguez: got
  Laura Brookhart: they
  Mary Rodriguez: into it, I mean I got into it as the day went on and I got really like, ooh I'm designing a remote control, I dunno if that's just
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm,
  Mary Rodriguez: Alta Hetzel, but
  Laura Brookhart: yeah. It was interesting though that they put that fifty percent of people say they have frustration with losing their remote and yet they didn't provide us with information to
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: um
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: we weren't provided with information to discuss that. I know that like people people have like things they can put on their keys that you press it and it'll beep,
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: but I but I'm sure that would require some kind of technology that I just don't know what it is,
  Mary Rodriguez: I think
  Laura Brookhart: but
  Mary Rodriguez: there are some of those like infomercial remotes that have things so you won't lose them.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: I dunno. I mean we were talking about it and like i in my household at least, there's only about two places that the remote is ever
  Laura Brookhart: Hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: 'cause there's only one T_V_ and there's
  Alta Hetzel: That's
  Mary Rodriguez: only
  Alta Hetzel: like
  Mary Rodriguez: like
  Alta Hetzel: saying
  Mary Rodriguez: three
  Alta Hetzel: you're never
  Mary Rodriguez: chairs.
  Alta Hetzel: gonna lose your keys, and I always do, anyway. You'll lose 'em in your pocket, like you
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Alta Hetzel: just will forget that or you like put it down somewhere that like made sense and then
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Alta Hetzel: not remember, there's always ways to lose things.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: It d yeah, it depends on how organised you are personally, but
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah, or like I guess what the setup of the house is too.
  Laura Brookhart: Mm-hmm.
  Mary Rodriguez: But, I mean I am notorious for losing my keys, I just I guess I've just never lost the remote. I put my keys in the refrigerator the other night and couldn't find them. 'Cause I was putting groceries away.
  Alta Hetzel: That's funny.
  Laura Brookhart: Oh.
  Mary Rodriguez: You you're taking stuff from a bag and putting them in the refrigerator and then go back to my room.
  Laura Brookhart: Can't get in.
  Mary Rodriguez: Can't get in, look all around the kitchen. Definitely in the vegetable drawer.
  Alta Hetzel: That's funny.
  Mary Rodriguez: So.
  Alta Hetzel: I always do that, leaving it in my coat, and then like using a different coat.
  Mary Rodriguez: Mm.
  Laura Brookhart: Yep.
  Mary Rodriguez: But I guess it's 'cause we don't carry remotes around that much.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah. Can't really take it into the other room.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah. Maybe with our little robot one we could've had him have a robot, alien, pear, whatever he is, have a little voice like, I am located Oh a G_P_S_ system, internal G_P_S_.
  Alta Hetzel: Oh man. Here you go.
  Mary Rodriguez: Although if it's sitting still for
  Laura Brookhart: We
  Mary Rodriguez: too
  Laura Brookhart: should
  Mary Rodriguez: long.
  Laura Brookhart: make one that walks by itself.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yes
  Alta Hetzel: That really
  Mary Rodriguez: I
  Alta Hetzel: could get up and walk away.
  Laura Brookhart: Or or like some crazy like electro-magnet, that you push
  Mary Rodriguez: Or
  Laura Brookhart: it and it'll
  Mary Rodriguez: little
  Laura Brookhart: go zoom to the T_V_ and stick there.
  Mary Rodriguez: Or just just a wheel, you know. Just if you like you'd have a remote for your remote, that'll.
  Jennifer Simpson: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: Well, but if you could attach
  Mary Rodriguez: zoom
  Laura Brookhart: them to the T_V_, then you can.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah. Hmm. All
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: kinds of possibilities.
  Laura Brookhart: Okay. Sorry, I'm just um trying to update my minutes. I decided to you know how I sent you the email saying that PowerPoint minutes will be complimentary,
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Laura Brookhart: rather than like repeating them. Just gonna make I'm making full minutes, so that it'll
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh.
  Laura Brookhart: include all of the agenda and all that.
  Mary Rodriguez: Wow.
  Laura Brookhart: 'Cause that seems a little more useful.
  Mary Rodriguez: 'Cause you've had like the most typing and organising to do.
  Laura Brookhart: But I didn't have like information to sloth
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah,
  Laura Brookhart: through either, so
  Mary Rodriguez: I guess How much of your PowerPoint was already done for you, every meeting.
  Laura Brookhart: Most of it, mm-hmm. I added slides, um
  Mary Rodriguez: Oh.
  Laura Brookhart: I added a couple slides each time, but that was about it.
  Mary Rodriguez: Okay. Yeah, I didn't even think about adding slides, 'cause I would just get slides with titles on them and
  Laura Brookhart: Mm.
  Mary Rodriguez: fill them all in w didn't even think about adding more.
  Laura Brookhart: Well, the thing was they would provide y an agenda with s like several points, but it wouldn't have a slide for each point.
  Mary Rodriguez: Ah
  Laura Brookhart: And that's the only
  Mary Rodriguez: yeah..
  Laura Brookhart: way I remember that I need to go other that point. I know personally when I do PowerPoint, that's what I do and so I had it once, even if it was just like the title of it, like the three presentations, and I would do your
  Mary Rodriguez: Right.
  Laura Brookhart: three.
  Alta Hetzel: You have you have to have the slogan on it or can it just be like
  Laura Brookhart: The slogan
  Mary Rodriguez: No,
  Laura Brookhart: on it?
  Mary Rodriguez: no,
  Laura Brookhart: No
  Mary Rodriguez: definitely
  Laura Brookhart: no
  Alta Hetzel: Okay
  Laura Brookhart: no.
  Alta Hetzel: good.
  Mary Rodriguez: not. We
  Alta Hetzel: 'Cause I was like, it could go around the outside.
  Mary Rodriguez: No, I don't think we need to I
  Laura Brookhart: I think
  Mary Rodriguez: think
  Laura Brookhart: we just
  Mary Rodriguez: the
  Laura Brookhart: need
  Mary Rodriguez: R_
  Laura Brookhart: the
  Mary Rodriguez: and R_,
  Laura Brookhart: um
  Mary Rodriguez: especially
  Laura Brookhart: the R_R_,
  Mary Rodriguez: if
  Laura Brookhart: yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: the yellow and black one.
  Alta Hetzel: Is it yellow and blue?
  Mary Rodriguez: Or yellow and blue. Lemme go to the web page.
  Laura Brookhart: Yeah, I was just kinda going by the web page, 'cause they didn't give Alta Hetzel any clear, like yellow,
  Alta Hetzel: Oh
  Laura Brookhart: grey,
  Alta Hetzel: I guess it is black,
  Laura Brookhart: or.
  Alta Hetzel: grey. Grey is better than black, doesn't look so bumblebeeish.
  Laura Brookhart: I don't really like yellow in general.
  Alta Hetzel: Hey now I understand the
  Laura Brookhart: But
  Alta Hetzel: random
  Laura Brookhart: it
  Alta Hetzel: like newsclippings.
  Mary Rodriguez: Finish meeting now.
  Laura Brookhart: Wasn't it interesting that um I thought it was interesting that our market marketing um expert did not agree with the marketing um the marketing choices, you know, like
  Alta Hetzel: Yes. I will I just feel
  Laura Brookhart: that
  Alta Hetzel: like
  Laura Brookhart: was
  Alta Hetzel: if you're
  Laura Brookhart: a bit
  Alta Hetzel: really
  Laura Brookhart: of a conflict.
  Alta Hetzel: doing like a a really big market evaluation, you wouldn't just have like one set of source, it's kind of an they were so not backed up, it would just be a sentence like we did a survey, this is what people said.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah.
  Alta Hetzel: S mm, I dunno.
  Laura Brookhart: People are stupid.
  Mary Rodriguez: I guess it i it sort of a grey, isn't it? Yellow and grey, but then the slogan's in blue.
  Alta Hetzel: Well we got some grey and we got some blue buttons, we're good.
  Mary Rodriguez: Yeah. Well we don't have the right colour clay anyway.
  Laura Brookhart: Maybe, like I don't know. That could always be.
  Mary Rodriguez: Well we're not, sadly, going to actually be producing this, so.
  Laura Brookhart: Oh.
  Alta Hetzel: If they ever come out with potato
  Mary Rodriguez: Potato mango shaped remotes.
  Alta Hetzel: I'm gonna
  Laura Brookhart: I'm
  Alta Hetzel: have
  Laura Brookhart: claiming
  Alta Hetzel: to
  Laura Brookhart: it intellectual property.
  Alta Hetzel: Yeah.
  Mary Rodriguez: I can't believe a whole day is gone.
  Alta Hetzel: I know.
  Mary Rodriguez: I don't feel like it's been that long. Get sucked in. Mm I haven't gotten questionnaire eight yet.
Updated Content: Laura Brookhart recapped the decisions made in the previous meeting and two team members presented three prototypes which differed primarily in shape. The team felt it was not necessary to include a feature to prevent the remote from getting lost as the prototype designs were quite bright. The team conducted a product evaluation of the prototype the team liked the most. They rated the prototype on the basis of its appearance, functionality, technological innovativeness, sponginess, usability, learn-ability, its ability to be found when misplaced, simplicity, and its ability to meet the appropriate demographic. The team then discussed the production costs of the remote and what features they should retain or lose in order to maintain their target cost. Laura Brookhart then led the team in a project evaluation in which the team evaluated how they created the project, the information they found and used, their creativity, their teamwork, and the materials they had at their disposal. The team was generally quite satisfied. After Laura Brookhart's closing, the team discussed their personal preferences in terms of the prototypes. They also further evaluated the project process and discussed what they had learned.