Extracted Content: Florence Ragland: 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.
  Helen Bonds: Right, do you wanna start?
  Tammie Mchendry: 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,
  Florence Ragland: like a little
  Tammie Mchendry: or
  Florence Ragland: lightning
  Tammie Mchendry: shall I
  Helen Bonds: Okay,
  Tammie Mchendry: present
  Florence Ragland: in it.
  Tammie Mchendry: the Martian?
  Helen Bonds: um
  Florence Ragland: The little lightning bolt in it,
  Helen Bonds: What
  Florence Ragland: very cute.
  Helen Bonds: We call that one
  Patricia Elder: I could
  Helen Bonds: the rhombus, uh
  Florence Ragland: The v the rhombus
  Helen Bonds: the rhombus.
  Tammie Mchendry: That's
  Florence Ragland: rhombus?
  Tammie Mchendry: the rhombus, yep.
  Helen Bonds: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Um on, off?
  Helen Bonds: Uh that would be one of your channels, basically, so
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Helen Bonds: like channel zero would be t to switch
  Florence Ragland: Yeah we turn
  Helen Bonds: switch
  Florence Ragland: it off.
  Helen Bonds: the machine off, yeah.
  Patricia Elder: Could the middle button of the on-screen menu function as a power button?
  Helen Bonds: Um not really, it would make it hard to turn
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Helen Bonds: the machine off, to turn your T_V_ off.
  Tammie Mchendry: If you pressed and held it maybe.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah
  Patricia Elder: If you like
  Helen Bonds: yeah,
  Patricia Elder: held
  Helen Bonds: that
  Patricia Elder: it down,
  Helen Bonds: that'd be one
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: way of doing it, yeah.
  Patricia Elder: that would be
  Helen Bonds: That'd
  Patricia Elder: on
  Helen Bonds: work,
  Tammie Mchendry: On
  Patricia Elder: off.
  Tammie Mchendry: off, that's
  Helen Bonds: yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: a possibility, yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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,
  Helen Bonds: Let's pass.
  Tammie Mchendry: plus it's an interesting talking point to have standing up. We figured it could stand up like this on your table,
  Florence Ragland: Uh-huh.
  Tammie Mchendry: if you wanted it to, if I made the bot the bottom flat.
  Patricia Elder: Sorry, what's the yellow one in the middle, I forgot.
  Tammie Mchendry: Uh the menu select button.
  Florence Ragland: Very interesting. I
  Helen Bonds: So that's
  Florence Ragland: think that one's my favourite.
  Helen Bonds: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Helen Bonds: a logo on it or whatever.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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,
  Florence Ragland: Mm 'kay.
  Tammie Mchendry: maybe with with less contrasts on it. Yeah,
  Helen Bonds: Would
  Tammie Mchendry: something still a little bright to make it
  Helen Bonds: Yeah,
  Tammie Mchendry: hard to lose, but
  Helen Bonds: but we don't want it to look like a kids' toy.
  Tammie Mchendry: yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Now that was one thing that we brought up over email. I don't know if you picked up your email,
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: but um the f the um feature that we considered for it not getting lost.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: So we're we're not thinking that it's gonna be as critical
  Patricia Elder: But if it's like under
  Tammie Mchendry: to have
  Patricia Elder: covers
  Tammie Mchendry: the loss
  Patricia Elder: or like in a couch you still
  Florence Ragland: It's
  Patricia Elder: can't
  Florence Ragland: really
  Patricia Elder: see it.
  Florence Ragland: 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?
  Helen Bonds: I
  Tammie Mchendry: I think
  Helen Bonds: think it would be difficult technologically,
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Helen Bonds: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Helen Bonds: find it, s so it's I'm not quite sure
  Florence Ragland: That's true,
  Helen Bonds: how it
  Florence Ragland: mm
  Helen Bonds: would work
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: and
  Florence Ragland: 'kay.
  Helen Bonds: 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?
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: than we have this afternoon.
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: So d do people have a preference as far as feel and functionality? Um.
  Patricia Elder: 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,
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Could we maybe have like an extra button on the top for on off? So then w we wouldn't
  Tammie Mchendry: Mm
  Patricia Elder: Ah,
  Helen Bonds: Yeah,
  Florence Ragland: have to
  Helen Bonds: it's
  Florence Ragland: have like
  Helen Bonds: possible,
  Florence Ragland: a dual
  Tammie Mchendry: yeah,
  Florence Ragland: function?
  Tammie Mchendry: that's
  Patricia Elder: there we
  Helen Bonds: yeah,
  Patricia Elder: go.
  Tammie Mchendry: good, that's good.
  Helen Bonds: yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: Here, stick it on.
  Helen Bonds: Put an extra the
  Florence Ragland: Sure.
  Helen Bonds: button on.
  Florence Ragland: Um uh why don't we do a product evaluation using your criteria, if you've
  Patricia Elder: Well
  Florence Ragland: developed
  Patricia Elder: do we w
  Florence Ragland: some?
  Patricia Elder: like I think we're supposed to have one that we do it for.
  Florence Ragland: Oh okay. Okay.
  Patricia Elder: That was
  Tammie Mchendry: So where
  Patricia Elder: I was a little vague on what exactly I'm supposed to do, but let Patricia Elder I have to like write something on
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: the whiteboard, so.
  Florence Ragland: Do you need this or just write on the white
  Patricia Elder: No,
  Florence Ragland: board?
  Patricia Elder: I actually don't have like a PowerPointy thing,
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: 'cause
  Tammie Mchendry: Right.
  Patricia Elder: I think it would be redundant.
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: I dunno.
  Florence Ragland: It's kind of like uh
  Tammie Mchendry: Ooh.
  Florence Ragland: like a joystick kind of thing, you know, kinda push it.
  Helen Bonds: Cool.
  Tammie Mchendry: Hey.
  Florence Ragland: 'Kay. Maybe a little smaller than that.
  Tammie Mchendry: No, I kinda like it. That's hard to miss.
  Helen Bonds: It makes look more fruity as well.
  Florence Ragland: Oh it does, it's kind of like
  Helen Bonds: It's like a deformed foot, I dunno.
  Florence Ragland: There it could have a stem like that, 'cause I do l kind of like the stem.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: Like
  Florence Ragland: Yeah. It almost helps you ge keep a grip too, 'cause it goes
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: in between
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: fingers.
  Tammie Mchendry: Interesting.
  Florence Ragland: I like this one.
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay, is that
  Florence Ragland: Variety
  Tammie Mchendry: where people
  Florence Ragland: of colours
  Tammie Mchendry: are leaning
  Florence Ragland: are
  Tammie Mchendry: then,
  Florence Ragland: nice.
  Tammie Mchendry: the potato? I like the idea
  Florence Ragland: I think
  Tammie Mchendry: of the
  Florence Ragland: I'm leaning towards the potato.
  Tammie Mchendry: I mean that's really gotten the simplicity of the buttons down, that one.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm. I am worried about like um using a menu. Um in that like i withing menus there are submenus,
  Tammie Mchendry: Hmm.
  Florence Ragland: and so how do you
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: get back to the main menu?
  Tammie Mchendry: 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.
  Florence Ragland: But that has a menu button separate from a select button, whereas if
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: this one's both the
  Tammie Mchendry: Good
  Florence Ragland: menu
  Tammie Mchendry: point.
  Florence Ragland: and the select button?
  Helen Bonds: This is, it's the up and down buttons are used for scrolling up and down for a list of choices.
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Helen Bonds: You find the choice that you want and you press uh you press the right button uh.
  Florence Ragland: Could these
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: be used for going to
  Helen Bonds: Yeah,
  Florence Ragland: submenus
  Helen Bonds: so they're used
  Florence Ragland: or
  Helen Bonds: for going into and
  Tammie Mchendry: Maybe
  Helen Bonds: out of your submenus,
  Tammie Mchendry: yeah,
  Helen Bonds: yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: maybe it can
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Tammie Mchendry: be one of those, if you press down and hold for two seconds, then it brings you back one level or something.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm. Okay. Well, as long as we have that in mind as we're designing it still, mm 'kay.
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: The potato? Are we leaning
  Helen Bonds: Potato.
  Tammie Mchendry: towards the potato?
  Florence Ragland: I think so.
  Patricia Elder: Okay, well we can obviously change it after we go through each different
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: 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 Patricia Elder 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: What does each of you
  Florence Ragland: I I kind of think it's it's unique enough that I'd give it a one or a two.
  Patricia Elder: Okay, well give it a number,
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: sorry.
  Florence Ragland: I will give it a one.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Patricia Elder: Okay.
  Tammie Mchendry: c unique.
  Patricia Elder: And
  Helen Bonds: I'll go for two.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah, one.
  Patricia Elder: One?
  Helen Bonds: I think it's it's functional, it's also pretty basic, so I'll give it a two.
  Patricia Elder: Okay.
  Florence Ragland: Um functional. I think it'll get everything done, I think it might be a little confusing at first, um,
  Patricia Elder: Okay. Well there's some
  Florence Ragland: I
  Patricia Elder: other
  Florence Ragland: don't know if that's
  Patricia Elder: ones,
  Florence Ragland: gonna
  Patricia Elder: I
  Florence Ragland: be
  Patricia Elder: will
  Florence Ragland: a later
  Patricia Elder: address
  Florence Ragland: one.
  Patricia Elder: that, yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Okay, then I'm gonna give it a two.
  Patricia Elder: Awesome, okay. Um we wanna know next if it's technologically innovative.
  Florence Ragland: Did you give a functional?
  Patricia Elder: Yeah, she said it was one.
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Florence Ragland: Well, the kinetic
  Patricia Elder: really
  Florence Ragland: battery.
  Tammie Mchendry: In the battery,
  Patricia Elder: I
  Tammie Mchendry: that's it.
  Patricia Elder: kinetic battery is a big one, so.
  Tammie Mchendry: How many people
  Patricia Elder: Mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: would notice that, though?
  Patricia Elder: But it
  Florence Ragland: But
  Patricia Elder: but
  Florence Ragland: they'll notice
  Patricia Elder: we know
  Florence Ragland: it after
  Patricia Elder: it's there.
  Florence Ragland: like a year, they'll be like hey, I have never changed the battery.
  Patricia Elder: And if it's made of like latex, that whole
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: idea, that's pretty cool. I'll
  Florence Ragland: Just
  Patricia Elder: give it
  Florence Ragland: the
  Patricia Elder: a
  Florence Ragland: material.
  Patricia Elder: three. 'Cause it we could've picked a lot of features that would've made it really
  Tammie Mchendry: 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.
  Patricia Elder: Alright. Everyone else?
  Helen Bonds: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Think I'm gonna go with the four as well.
  Patricia Elder: Mm 'kay.
  Florence Ragland: I really like that kinetic battery though.
  Patricia Elder: Next, is it easy to use? Just so you know, easy to learn will be separate,
  Florence Ragland: Mm
  Patricia Elder: so don't
  Florence Ragland: 'kay.
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: overlap them. I think it's really easy to use. I'll give it a two.
  Tammie Mchendry: Um I'll give it a one. Pretty hard to mess up.
  Helen Bonds: I'll say one.
  Florence Ragland: Uh let's say two.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Give it a one.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: I wonder if it bounces when you drop it.
  Tammie Mchendry: Ooh,
  Patricia Elder: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: that you couldn't it'd be harder to break, harder to lose.
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: 'Cause there would be less impact maybe,
  Patricia Elder: Iain, what
  Tammie Mchendry: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: do you give
  Helen Bonds: Yeah
  Patricia Elder: it?
  Helen Bonds: I'd I'd give it a one.
  Patricia Elder: Alright and the next is, does it integrate some notion of fruits and vegetables?
  Helen Bonds: Uh um.
  Patricia Elder: Well, is it gonna be yellow?
  Tammie Mchendry: It it might be, 'cause that's our corporate colour, isn't it?
  Florence Ragland: That's right, yeah, corporate
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: colour, we didn't keep that in
  Tammie Mchendry: We might
  Florence Ragland: um
  Tammie Mchendry: wanna keep it yellow.
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Patricia Elder: Yeah,
  Florence Ragland: that's
  Patricia Elder: but if
  Florence Ragland: more
  Patricia Elder: you had
  Florence Ragland: fruity.
  Patricia Elder: like a silvery kind of white or something.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah,
  Florence Ragland: Um and
  Tammie Mchendry: If
  Florence Ragland: can
  Tammie Mchendry: we
  Florence Ragland: we
  Tammie Mchendry: had
  Florence Ragland: have
  Tammie Mchendry: a yellow
  Florence Ragland: like an R_R_ inscribed on the bottom or something?
  Tammie Mchendry: Sure.
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: Oh,
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: yeah. Alright, so
  Florence Ragland: Fruity,
  Tammie Mchendry: So,
  Patricia Elder: I think it
  Florence Ragland: so
  Patricia Elder: it's
  Florence Ragland: fruity.
  Tammie Mchendry: so I think
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: it's pretty
  Florence Ragland: I
  Tammie Mchendry: fruity.
  Florence Ragland: think i it's kind of mangoey too.
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh,
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: Mangoey
  Tammie Mchendry: mango
  Patricia Elder: I
  Helen Bonds: is
  Patricia Elder: okay,
  Helen Bonds: better,
  Florence Ragland: Yes.
  Helen Bonds: yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: that
  Patricia Elder: I'm giving
  Helen Bonds: I
  Patricia Elder: it a one
  Tammie Mchendry: that
  Patricia Elder: the mango
  Helen Bonds: like mangoes.
  Patricia Elder: put Patricia Elder over.
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: That's a much more trendy than a potato
  Patricia Elder: What are what's everyone's numbers?
  Tammie Mchendry: one.
  Helen Bonds: Uh two.
  Florence Ragland: One.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah, Patricia Elder too.
  Helen Bonds: Uh one.
  Patricia Elder: Did you say one, Rose?
  Florence Ragland: Yes.
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Florence Ragland: It's gonna
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: is
  Florence Ragland: be
  Patricia Elder: gonna
  Florence Ragland: hard.
  Patricia Elder: happen.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah, yeah.
  Florence Ragland: And if it's repetitive movement it is gonna be only four buttons that you're constantly pushing, but um
  Patricia Elder: Um um worth the risk,
  Florence Ragland: I
  Patricia Elder: I
  Florence Ragland: like
  Patricia Elder: think.
  Florence Ragland: how it fits in the hand though
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: I'd go with a two.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: 'Kay.
  Tammie Mchendry: at first, but
  Helen Bonds: Yeah I'll I'll say two.
  Patricia Elder: 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 Patricia Elder of the iPod. I just got mine, I still haven't read the instruction book and I'm doing okay,
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: so and I'm not good at learning technology. So I'll give it a two.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: So I'd I think I'd give it a two I guess.
  Helen Bonds: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh,
  Helen Bonds: that
  Tammie Mchendry: good
  Helen Bonds: could
  Tammie Mchendry: point.
  Helen Bonds: take a bit of learning at first,
  Patricia Elder: Mm-hmm.
  Helen Bonds: 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.
  Patricia Elder: Okay.
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Patricia Elder: Mm-hmm.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: Alright, um also earlier we had something about losing it and so now we're not addressing that at all, so
  Florence Ragland: We we I think we can kind of say we addressed it with colour,
  Patricia Elder: Okay, so
  Florence Ragland: but
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: anywhere
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: else it's gonna stand out.
  Tammie Mchendry: Um I'd say I'd give it uh a three, I guess it depends on how tidy you are normally.
  Florence Ragland: Mm I'd give it a four.
  Helen Bonds: Um I'll give it a five 'cause i it would be easy to lose something like
  Florence Ragland: Small
  Helen Bonds: that,
  Florence Ragland: too.
  Helen Bonds: yeah.
  Patricia Elder: Alright, we also said simplicity, how w how well does it address just being simple?
  Tammie Mchendry: Simple to use or simple in design? Do you
  Patricia Elder: I
  Tammie Mchendry: know?
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Right.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: I'm give it a three I guess.
  Helen Bonds: I'll give it a two.
  Florence Ragland: Three.
  Patricia Elder: Alright, and fashionable?
  Florence Ragland: It's totally fashionable.
  Patricia Elder: It's
  Florence Ragland: I'd
  Patricia Elder: hot,
  Florence Ragland: give it a one.
  Patricia Elder: I mean it's a mango, come on.
  Florence Ragland: Mango.
  Patricia Elder: I mean how fashionable can you make a remote? I think it's bringing technology and fashion together real really well.
  Tammie Mchendry: I dunno. I don't think it's quite as fashionable as my robot remote
  Florence Ragland: I do like uh the little
  Tammie Mchendry: or
  Florence Ragland: Martian
  Tammie Mchendry: alien
  Florence Ragland: one.
  Tammie Mchendry: or whatever he was.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah, the toggle on off switch, it's really appealing. Number.
  Tammie Mchendry: Um two.
  Helen Bonds: Three.
  Florence Ragland: One.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm. I think as long if we offer in a in at least three different colour arrangements. Um
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: yeah,
  Patricia Elder: Mm-hmm.
  Florence Ragland: that's good. So I'll give it a a two.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah, I'll say two.
  Patricia Elder: Alright, did anyone have any other features that they think were important that we didn't talk about?
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Shall
  Florence Ragland: corporate
  Tammie Mchendry: we uh
  Florence Ragland: and has an R_R_ on it.
  Tammie Mchendry: Well I think all of them
  Florence Ragland: All
  Tammie Mchendry: should
  Florence Ragland: of them
  Tammie Mchendry: have
  Florence Ragland: should
  Tammie Mchendry: an
  Florence Ragland: have
  Tammie Mchendry: R_R_.
  Florence Ragland: R_R_, yeah.
  Patricia Elder: And so we're gonna do that, so it will address
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: it,
  Florence Ragland: Mm
  Patricia Elder: fine.
  Florence Ragland: 'kay.
  Patricia Elder: Okay. That's
  Florence Ragland: Lovely.
  Patricia Elder: Patricia Elder.
  Florence Ragland: 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 Patricia Elder exit out of this first. Okay um
  Patricia Elder: Whoa.
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh my.
  Florence Ragland: I know. Let Patricia Elder one more space. Gonna zoom in real quick. Okay. Hand dynamo. We're using
  Tammie Mchendry: Uh
  Florence Ragland: kinetic
  Tammie Mchendry: we're
  Florence Ragland: battery,
  Tammie Mchendry: n using
  Florence Ragland: right?
  Tammie Mchendry: kinetic, yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Um and we're having one per
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: One, okay. Um electronics.
  Tammie Mchendry: Single. Simple,
  Florence Ragland: Simple.
  Patricia Elder: Simple.
  Tammie Mchendry: simple rather.
  Florence Ragland: Mm 'kay. Um the case.
  Tammie Mchendry: Uh uh uh
  Helen Bonds: Guess
  Tammie Mchendry: double-curved.
  Helen Bonds: it's double-curved. It is pretty curvy.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: It's very curvy, so okay.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah I never did get a picture of those so I don't really know. Our case material supplements oops, we just skipped
  Patricia Elder: Well
  Tammie Mchendry: by
  Patricia Elder: don't
  Tammie Mchendry: them.
  Patricia Elder: we need plastic, and
  Tammie Mchendry: No, we we the plastic is the plastic for the inside is assumed.
  Patricia Elder: Provided,
  Tammie Mchendry: The
  Patricia Elder: okay.
  Tammie Mchendry: supplement is
  Florence Ragland: The wood?
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh, I guess it was rubber rather
  Florence Ragland: I mean
  Tammie Mchendry: than
  Patricia Elder: It was
  Florence Ragland: the
  Patricia Elder: rubber
  Tammie Mchendry: latex.
  Florence Ragland: rubber.
  Patricia Elder: and special colour, right?
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm, okay.
  Patricia Elder: Do we have more than one special colour?
  Florence Ragland: Yeah,
  Tammie Mchendry: Uh
  Florence Ragland: we're using
  Tammie Mchendry: well
  Florence Ragland: we're gonna
  Helen Bonds: Special colours,
  Florence Ragland: need at least
  Helen Bonds: isn't
  Florence Ragland: two
  Helen Bonds: it?
  Florence Ragland: special colours. Um.
  Tammie Mchendry: I don't know what
  Patricia Elder: Per
  Tammie Mchendry: the se the basic colour
  Florence Ragland: I
  Tammie Mchendry: is
  Florence Ragland: dunno
  Tammie Mchendry: though.
  Florence Ragland: where it yeah.
  Patricia Elder: Well, but we know that we're having at least three colours,
  Florence Ragland: So
  Patricia Elder: so
  Florence Ragland: let's y say
  Tammie Mchendry: Well,
  Florence Ragland: three.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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?
  Florence Ragland: Yeah, I dunno.
  Tammie Mchendry: Or
  Florence Ragland: That
  Tammie Mchendry: or
  Florence Ragland: I thi
  Tammie Mchendry: is
  Florence Ragland: I
  Tammie Mchendry: white and
  Florence Ragland: thought
  Tammie Mchendry: black,
  Florence Ragland: that would be under
  Tammie Mchendry: then
  Florence Ragland: yours.
  Tammie Mchendry: two more or Uh. I guess it's three,
  Florence Ragland: We'll just say three.
  Tammie Mchendry: three three.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: Right.
  Tammie Mchendry: Alright.
  Florence Ragland: Maybe the R_R_ will be in colour as well, so yeah. Interface, we're doing push buttons.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: And how many buttons do we
  Patricia Elder: We
  Florence Ragland: have?
  Patricia Elder: have
  Helen Bonds: We've got
  Patricia Elder: six.
  Helen Bonds: five.
  Patricia Elder: Oh
  Tammie Mchendry: Six,
  Patricia Elder: no,
  Helen Bonds: Oh
  Florence Ragland: Six.
  Patricia Elder: five.
  Helen Bonds: six.
  Tammie Mchendry: with the power. Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Anything else?
  Tammie Mchendry: No. Oh, we'll do we wa Are the buttons in special colour, special f I didn't get information on
  Patricia Elder: Oh wait.
  Florence Ragland: Oh, buttons oh, so um. So the case material will just have one colour, right, but
  Tammie Mchendry: Well,
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: then the buttons
  Tammie Mchendry: does it
  Florence Ragland: will be in special colours?
  Tammie Mchendry: but if we're making multiple varieties of this is where I'm getting confused.
  Florence Ragland: We're saying per unit.
  Tammie Mchendry: per unit,
  Patricia Elder: Yeah, per
  Tammie Mchendry: okay,
  Patricia Elder: unit.
  Florence Ragland: Okay,
  Tammie Mchendry: okay.
  Florence Ragland: so each unit will only have one colour
  Tammie Mchendry: Alright, and each
  Florence Ragland: on their
  Tammie Mchendry: button
  Florence Ragland: but the case is
  Tammie Mchendry: s
  Florence Ragland: could have up to thr I mean the buttons could ea could be up to three colours, 'cause that
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: how it's designed there.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: I like
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah,
  Patricia Elder: it like that.
  Florence Ragland: So
  Tammie Mchendry: okay.
  Florence Ragland: Special form? They're all kind of just push button,
  Tammie Mchendry: No, I think
  Florence Ragland: right?
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: they're fine.
  Florence Ragland: Special material?
  Tammie Mchendry: Material, we want them rubber as well probably, yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Uh. Oh do I have to do it per button, do I?
  Tammie Mchendry: No, I don't think so. I think they're if they're all
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Tammie Mchendry: gonna be rubber then it that's what it matters.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah, 'cause
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: it wouldn't make sense
  Florence Ragland: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: otherwise, 'cause for the whole mat case material it's only one.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: It's I mean it's two to make it rubber.
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay.
  Patricia Elder: Oh wait, so maybe.
  Florence Ragland: Thirteen point seven.
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh oh.
  Florence Ragland: Yeah, what can we reduce?
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay, let's have our buttons all be one colour.
  Patricia Elder: Mm, I kind of like
  Florence Ragland: Let's
  Patricia Elder: the
  Florence Ragland: see
  Patricia Elder: buttons.
  Florence Ragland: what that would do. It's only gonna bring us down to thirteen point three anyway.
  Tammie Mchendry: Alright.
  Florence Ragland: Okay um,
  Tammie Mchendry: Uh.
  Florence Ragland: are we sure this is double-curved? Maybe it's single-curved,
  Tammie Mchendry: We have no idea.
  Florence Ragland: we have no idea.
  Tammie Mchendry: I dunno, I didn't get any pictures.
  Patricia Elder: It's
  Tammie Mchendry: It's single curved.
  Patricia Elder: single curved.
  Tammie Mchendry: Why not?
  Florence Ragland: 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,
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: but that's important.
  Tammie Mchendry: That is important.
  Florence Ragland: Six buttons
  Tammie Mchendry: How did
  Florence Ragland: we
  Tammie Mchendry: it get
  Florence Ragland: have
  Tammie Mchendry: more
  Florence Ragland: to
  Tammie Mchendry: expensive,
  Florence Ragland: have six buttons.
  Tammie Mchendry: what did you just change?
  Florence Ragland: What?
  Tammie Mchendry: It was it was thirteen and now it's fifteen.
  Florence Ragland: No, okay, maybe not. I don't know what just happened. Now it's
  Patricia Elder: We
  Florence Ragland: twelve.
  Helen Bonds: What was our target price again?
  Tammie Mchendry: Twelve
  Florence Ragland: Twelve
  Tammie Mchendry: point five.
  Florence Ragland: point five.
  Tammie Mchendry: Hey
  Helen Bonds: Twelve
  Tammie Mchendry: hey.
  Helen Bonds: point five. So we're just
  Florence Ragland: So we're
  Helen Bonds: just
  Florence Ragland: okay,
  Helen Bonds: about there.
  Tammie Mchendry: We're all
  Florence Ragland: I think.
  Tammie Mchendry: set then.
  Florence Ragland: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: Ish.
  Florence Ragland: Okay,
  Tammie Mchendry: Alright.
  Florence Ragland: 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?
  Tammie Mchendry: Yes.
  Florence Ragland: Yes.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah,
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: they are.
  Florence Ragland: 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: Well.
  Florence Ragland: Okay.
  Tammie Mchendry: I felt very creative. I enjoyed making the prototypes.
  Helen Bonds: I think we've been successful in that we've achieved almost all of the design goals that we've set
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: and we've come up with a finished project and we just about got cost.
  Tammie Mchendry: I think we could've done even better with a little bit more information, like
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: what's a single-curved case, how many colours, what do colours count
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: things, but given given what we had I think that we did we did really well. Um I think we worked together pretty well.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah, I mean if I'd had more market research on the fruits
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: and vegetables, maybe we could've taken that into account.
  Tammie Mchendry: But the fruits and vegetables, they really my creativity, so.
  Patricia Elder: I know, I really did, the the whole mango idea was great. No, I mean
  Tammie Mchendry: Do you think we
  Patricia Elder: I
  Tammie Mchendry: could
  Patricia Elder: thought the pen was a little distracting for Patricia Elder personally, like its heaviness, and like just being so conscious of like turning the pages, I dunno. That was a bit of a distraction.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: that whole sort of thing.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: I like our little finished products.
  Patricia Elder: They're funny.
  Florence Ragland: Really cute.
  Patricia Elder: I kind of want one.
  Tammie Mchendry: Can we market this as the mango remote? Should we have that somewhere on the packaging? I have a little
  Patricia Elder: I'm
  Tammie Mchendry: R_R_.
  Patricia Elder: trying to think of a good pun that I could add there.
  Florence Ragland: I know, let's think of it like a little jingle. Um.
  Patricia Elder: I like the R_R_, that's gonna be etched in.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Okay um
  Tammie Mchendry: Mm. What did we
  Florence Ragland: new
  Tammie Mchendry: find
  Florence Ragland: ideas
  Tammie Mchendry: for new ideas?
  Florence Ragland: found?
  Tammie Mchendry: People should really base their remotes on fruits and vegetables.
  Florence Ragland: Definitely.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Or or at least be c p creative enough to think of toggle switches mm
  Tammie Mchendry: I
  Florence Ragland: etcetera.
  Tammie Mchendry: I am really into the idea of kinetic batteries now
  Florence Ragland: Oh, I'm
  Tammie Mchendry: after
  Florence Ragland: so
  Tammie Mchendry: reading
  Florence Ragland: excited.
  Tammie Mchendry: about them.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah,
  Tammie Mchendry: That
  Patricia Elder: I didn't
  Tammie Mchendry: was
  Patricia Elder: even know they existed.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: But in other things, I think it'd be really good.
  Florence Ragland: I thi yeah, that's awesome. Um okay, closing. Are the costs within the budget? Is the project
  Tammie Mchendry: Yes.
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: 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.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah, Real Reaction.
  Florence Ragland: I do like the Martian remote. If we could choose more than one, that would be my second choice.
  Patricia Elder: Oh, that would definitely be my second choice.
  Helen Bonds: Mm.
  Florence Ragland: Although the tog toggle I'm afraid
  Helen Bonds: That's
  Florence Ragland: I
  Helen Bonds: cool.
  Florence Ragland: would
  Helen Bonds: Let's
  Patricia Elder: I
  Helen Bonds: all
  Patricia Elder: would break
  Helen Bonds: let's all
  Patricia Elder: it.
  Helen Bonds: go for
  Florence Ragland: It's
  Helen Bonds: the
  Florence Ragland: cool.
  Helen Bonds: yellow
  Patricia Elder: I would break it.
  Florence Ragland: I think I would break it.
  Tammie Mchendry: It
  Helen Bonds: Break
  Tammie Mchendry: started
  Helen Bonds: the stem
  Tammie Mchendry: because
  Helen Bonds: off.
  Tammie Mchendry: I wanted to have it as st as a stem and then alright, so
  Patricia Elder: Oh that's funny.
  Tammie Mchendry: Is it started as a pear, but then it started looking more and more like a Martian when I put
  Patricia Elder: Kind
  Tammie Mchendry: the
  Patricia Elder: of looks like a penguin, like with no eye.
  Florence Ragland: Oh
  Tammie Mchendry: Take
  Florence Ragland: yeah, it's
  Tammie Mchendry: Patricia Elder
  Florence Ragland: kind of a
  Tammie Mchendry: to
  Florence Ragland: penguin.
  Tammie Mchendry: your leader.
  Patricia Elder: I like that it stands up.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: Wow, maybe I should market it to some remote control company now. So are are
  Helen Bonds: That was
  Patricia Elder: Oh,
  Helen Bonds: bound to happen
  Patricia Elder: sad.
  Tammie Mchendry: poor little thing.
  Florence Ragland: Mm 'kay, congratulations. Um. Anything else to say?
  Patricia Elder: Nothing will come up until after our meeting's supposed to be over,
  Florence Ragland: Alright.
  Patricia Elder: its all timed.
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh.
  Florence Ragland: Um anybody
  Patricia Elder: Oh.
  Florence Ragland: have I got more master classes, anybody else wanna like take a master's class?
  Tammie Mchendry: It's really funny that you got spam in your work emails.
  Florence Ragland: 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.
  Patricia Elder: 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
  Florence Ragland: Oh
  Patricia Elder: to us? It's very it's very work relevant, 'cause people
  Florence Ragland: It is.
  Patricia Elder: send spam a lot.
  Florence Ragland: Yes definitely I'm very sad that I didn't get any links to the corporate website.
  Patricia Elder: Oh here you can
  Tammie Mchendry: Let's see,
  Patricia Elder: you can
  Tammie Mchendry: what
  Patricia Elder: view.
  Tammie Mchendry: did I get through the corporate website? It's
  Patricia Elder: You can
  Tammie Mchendry: just
  Patricia Elder: just see what's
  Tammie Mchendry: inspiration
  Patricia Elder: up.
  Tammie Mchendry: about circuit boards.
  Florence Ragland: Wow.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Yes.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah, that
  Patricia Elder: Here,
  Florence Ragland: I
  Tammie Mchendry: is
  Florence Ragland: love
  Patricia Elder: like,
  Tammie Mchendry: pretty
  Florence Ragland: Excel,
  Tammie Mchendry: neat.
  Florence Ragland: it's
  Patricia Elder: basically
  Florence Ragland: one of my favourite programs.
  Patricia Elder: it's like inspiration, basically I'm gonna give you two sentences on fashion and that kind of thing, see. You didn't miss
  Florence Ragland: I
  Patricia Elder: out
  Florence Ragland: see,
  Patricia Elder: that much.
  Florence Ragland: mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah, my inspiration from from last time
  Florence Ragland: Spongy.
  Tammie Mchendry: is the in interior of a remote control being taken apart bit by bit, talking about circuit boards. I learned a lot actually.
  Helen Bonds: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: Oh wow.
  Tammie Mchendry: I could probably take apart a remote control now if I really needed to.
  Patricia Elder: This one was cooler. I got a whole table and everything.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Patricia Elder: That's
  Tammie Mchendry: need
  Patricia Elder: like
  Tammie Mchendry: to
  Patricia Elder: mine
  Tammie Mchendry: talk
  Patricia Elder: it
  Tammie Mchendry: about
  Patricia Elder: was like,
  Tammie Mchendry: the case.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: It's really
  Florence Ragland: I
  Tammie Mchendry: interesting though.
  Florence Ragland: I thought it was a little tricky having to hand around this thing.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: We had a lot of the um
  Helen Bonds: I
  Florence Ragland: otherwise
  Helen Bonds: think.
  Florence Ragland: the technology today was kinda cool.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: That was really neat how I got emails
  Helen Bonds: We didn't
  Tammie Mchendry: and
  Helen Bonds: we didn't
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Helen Bonds: use the whiteboard that much.
  Florence Ragland: No.
  Tammie Mchendry: No.
  Florence Ragland: Although I don't see how we could have very l at least for Patricia Elder I
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: '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
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah, we could've
  Patricia Elder: period.
  Tammie Mchendry: put our brainstorming stuff up there rather than just talking about it, but
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: But I thought we were good orally.
  Tammie Mchendry: with only four people it doesn't really make sense.
  Patricia Elder: Get
  Tammie Mchendry: I think if you
  Florence Ragland: And
  Tammie Mchendry: had
  Florence Ragland: with
  Tammie Mchendry: a larger
  Patricia Elder: crazy.
  Florence Ragland: and
  Tammie Mchendry: group
  Florence Ragland: with the PowerPoint that we can all look at, like you
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: can do all those things pretty much on PowerPoint
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: as that's
  Patricia Elder: And
  Florence Ragland: not
  Patricia Elder: these
  Florence Ragland: as necessary
  Patricia Elder: might've
  Florence Ragland: to have.
  Patricia Elder: made us more willing to like take notes than to like
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: write up them here, 'cause we all needed them separately, kind of on the whiteboards in
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: this room.
  Tammie Mchendry: Because we're all gonna be working in different places.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: We if we were all gonna stay in here all the time, then
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: having the notes up on the whiteboard would've been alright, but everyone needs their own, like specific notes, I guess.
  Florence Ragland: Now when you were um creating your um prototypes here, did you work together or did you like do separate projects?
  Helen Bonds: Uh we we worked together,
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: um but we were making like we sort of made different shapes and then discussed how the how the buttons might work,
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: up with the sort of potatoey, mangoey shape, and then just went from there really.
  Florence Ragland: Cool.
  Tammie Mchendry: It was fun.
  Tammie Mchendry: So well done with the management, I felt well managed.
  Florence Ragland: Oh thanks.
  Helen Bonds: I think we did well in
  Florence Ragland: It's kinda fun.
  Helen Bonds: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: Sorry.
  Helen Bonds: And I
  Tammie Mchendry: That happened to Patricia Elder all the time though.
  Helen Bonds: 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.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Helen Bonds: 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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,
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Florence Ragland: This
  Tammie Mchendry: to
  Florence Ragland: is
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: be
  Florence Ragland: what
  Tammie Mchendry: done
  Florence Ragland: we'll do.
  Tammie Mchendry: in five minutes.
  Florence Ragland: I found that we did we could have used another five or ten minutes sometimes
  Helen Bonds: Yeah, for
  Tammie Mchendry: Especially
  Helen Bonds: some
  Florence Ragland: in
  Helen Bonds: of
  Florence Ragland: the
  Helen Bonds: the
  Florence Ragland: meetings.
  Helen Bonds: meetings,
  Tammie Mchendry: last
  Helen Bonds: yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: time,
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Yeah I think the last time we had a lot of information,
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah,
  Florence Ragland: but at the same time not quite enough,
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: you know what I mean,
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: like we
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: we couldn't answer every single question.
  Tammie Mchendry: Right.
  Florence Ragland: Um but
  Tammie Mchendry: And I I felt the first two meetings, that I was coming in with no information, and not sort
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: of made Patricia Elder 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.
  Florence Ragland: It was interesting what came out like later, like as I was doing
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: the when I was doing the breakdown on the agenda that they gave Patricia Elder um, that more points came out from your
  Tammie Mchendry: Mm.
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: that was kind of a big point.
  Tammie Mchendry: that was something like in order to talk about that we would've had to have actual knowledge about circuit boards
  Florence Ragland: About
  Tammie Mchendry: and
  Florence Ragland: yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: things
  Patricia Elder: Well the problem
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: like
  Patricia Elder: was, even when we just were creating from the Excel file, there wasn't like a option to select to somehow
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: have it included, so there was no we could be like yeah, it
  Tammie Mchendry: I
  Patricia Elder: has
  Tammie Mchendry: think
  Patricia Elder: it
  Tammie Mchendry: we
  Patricia Elder: included.
  Tammie Mchendry: were
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: There was no way for us to have
  Florence Ragland: Considered
  Patricia Elder: written
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: down
  Florence Ragland: the re
  Patricia Elder: that
  Florence Ragland: yeah.
  Patricia Elder: it was really there.
  Tammie Mchendry: I think we were just getting overenthusiastic with the task.
  Florence Ragland: Well it's interesting
  Tammie Mchendry: I think we really
  Florence Ragland: that
  Tammie Mchendry: got
  Florence Ragland: they
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm,
  Tammie Mchendry: Patricia Elder, but
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: um
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: 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,
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: but I but I'm sure that would require some kind of technology that I just don't know what it is,
  Tammie Mchendry: I think
  Florence Ragland: but
  Tammie Mchendry: there are some of those like infomercial remotes that have things so you won't lose them.
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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
  Florence Ragland: Hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: 'cause there's only one T_V_ and there's
  Patricia Elder: That's
  Tammie Mchendry: only
  Patricia Elder: like
  Tammie Mchendry: like
  Patricia Elder: saying
  Tammie Mchendry: three
  Patricia Elder: you're never
  Tammie Mchendry: chairs.
  Patricia Elder: gonna lose your keys, and I always do, anyway. You'll lose 'em in your pocket, like you
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Patricia Elder: just will forget that or you like put it down somewhere that like made sense and then
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Patricia Elder: not remember, there's always ways to lose things.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: It d yeah, it depends on how organised you are personally, but
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah, or like I guess what the setup of the house is too.
  Florence Ragland: Mm-hmm.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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.
  Patricia Elder: That's funny.
  Florence Ragland: Oh.
  Tammie Mchendry: You you're taking stuff from a bag and putting them in the refrigerator and then go back to my room.
  Florence Ragland: Can't get in.
  Tammie Mchendry: Can't get in, look all around the kitchen. Definitely in the vegetable drawer.
  Patricia Elder: That's funny.
  Tammie Mchendry: So.
  Patricia Elder: I always do that, leaving it in my coat, and then like using a different coat.
  Tammie Mchendry: Mm.
  Florence Ragland: Yep.
  Tammie Mchendry: But I guess it's 'cause we don't carry remotes around that much.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah. Can't really take it into the other room.
  Tammie Mchendry: 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_.
  Patricia Elder: Oh man. Here you go.
  Tammie Mchendry: Although if it's sitting still for
  Florence Ragland: We
  Tammie Mchendry: too
  Florence Ragland: should
  Tammie Mchendry: long.
  Florence Ragland: make one that walks by itself.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yes
  Patricia Elder: That really
  Tammie Mchendry: I
  Patricia Elder: could get up and walk away.
  Florence Ragland: Or or like some crazy like electro-magnet, that you push
  Tammie Mchendry: Or
  Florence Ragland: it and it'll
  Tammie Mchendry: little
  Florence Ragland: go zoom to the T_V_ and stick there.
  Tammie Mchendry: Or just just a wheel, you know. Just if you like you'd have a remote for your remote, that'll.
  Helen Bonds: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: Well, but if you could attach
  Tammie Mchendry: zoom
  Florence Ragland: them to the T_V_, then you can.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah. Hmm. All
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: kinds of possibilities.
  Florence Ragland: 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,
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Florence Ragland: rather than like repeating them. Just gonna make I'm making full minutes, so that it'll
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh.
  Florence Ragland: include all of the agenda and all that.
  Tammie Mchendry: Wow.
  Florence Ragland: 'Cause that seems a little more useful.
  Tammie Mchendry: 'Cause you've had like the most typing and organising to do.
  Florence Ragland: But I didn't have like information to sloth
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah,
  Florence Ragland: through either, so
  Tammie Mchendry: I guess How much of your PowerPoint was already done for you, every meeting.
  Florence Ragland: Most of it, mm-hmm. I added slides, um
  Tammie Mchendry: Oh.
  Florence Ragland: I added a couple slides each time, but that was about it.
  Tammie Mchendry: Okay. Yeah, I didn't even think about adding slides, 'cause I would just get slides with titles on them and
  Florence Ragland: Mm.
  Tammie Mchendry: fill them all in w didn't even think about adding more.
  Florence Ragland: 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: Ah
  Florence Ragland: And that's the only
  Tammie Mchendry: yeah..
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Tammie Mchendry: Right.
  Florence Ragland: three.
  Patricia Elder: You have you have to have the slogan on it or can it just be like
  Florence Ragland: The slogan
  Tammie Mchendry: No,
  Florence Ragland: on it?
  Tammie Mchendry: no,
  Florence Ragland: No
  Tammie Mchendry: definitely
  Florence Ragland: no
  Patricia Elder: Okay
  Florence Ragland: no.
  Patricia Elder: good.
  Tammie Mchendry: not. We
  Patricia Elder: 'Cause I was like, it could go around the outside.
  Tammie Mchendry: No, I don't think we need to I
  Florence Ragland: I think
  Tammie Mchendry: think
  Florence Ragland: we just
  Tammie Mchendry: the
  Florence Ragland: need
  Tammie Mchendry: R_
  Florence Ragland: the
  Tammie Mchendry: and R_,
  Florence Ragland: um
  Tammie Mchendry: especially
  Florence Ragland: the R_R_,
  Tammie Mchendry: if
  Florence Ragland: yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: the yellow and black one.
  Patricia Elder: Is it yellow and blue?
  Tammie Mchendry: Or yellow and blue. Lemme go to the web page.
  Florence Ragland: Yeah, I was just kinda going by the web page, 'cause they didn't give Patricia Elder any clear, like yellow,
  Patricia Elder: Oh
  Florence Ragland: grey,
  Patricia Elder: I guess it is black,
  Florence Ragland: or.
  Patricia Elder: grey. Grey is better than black, doesn't look so bumblebeeish.
  Florence Ragland: I don't really like yellow in general.
  Patricia Elder: Hey now I understand the
  Florence Ragland: But
  Patricia Elder: random
  Florence Ragland: it
  Patricia Elder: like newsclippings.
  Tammie Mchendry: Finish meeting now.
  Florence Ragland: 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
  Patricia Elder: Yes. I will I just feel
  Florence Ragland: that
  Patricia Elder: like
  Florence Ragland: was
  Patricia Elder: if you're
  Florence Ragland: a bit
  Patricia Elder: really
  Florence Ragland: of a conflict.
  Patricia Elder: 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.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah.
  Patricia Elder: S mm, I dunno.
  Florence Ragland: People are stupid.
  Tammie Mchendry: I guess it i it sort of a grey, isn't it? Yellow and grey, but then the slogan's in blue.
  Patricia Elder: Well we got some grey and we got some blue buttons, we're good.
  Tammie Mchendry: Yeah. Well we don't have the right colour clay anyway.
  Florence Ragland: Maybe, like I don't know. That could always be.
  Tammie Mchendry: Well we're not, sadly, going to actually be producing this, so.
  Florence Ragland: Oh.
  Patricia Elder: If they ever come out with potato
  Tammie Mchendry: Potato mango shaped remotes.
  Patricia Elder: I'm gonna
  Florence Ragland: I'm
  Patricia Elder: have
  Florence Ragland: claiming
  Patricia Elder: to
  Florence Ragland: it intellectual property.
  Patricia Elder: Yeah.
  Tammie Mchendry: I can't believe a whole day is gone.
  Patricia Elder: I know.
  Tammie Mchendry: I don't feel like it's been that long. Get sucked in. Mm I haven't gotten questionnaire eight yet.
Updated Content: Florence Ragland 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. Florence Ragland 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 Florence Ragland'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.