What did the Industrial Designer think of appearance design when discussing the design of remote control for children?
User Interface: Oops.
Project Manager: So, hello everyone. {vocalsound} We're here to have a kick-off meeting for the design of a {disfmarker} f for the beginning of new project um {vocalsound} uh remote control for the design for a new remote control {vocalsound}. I'm the Project Manager Christa Pavlov and {vocalsound} okay let's begin. {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} So I'm first going to do an opening then we get used to one anothers and we speak about this tool we're going to design and try to make a project plan, some discussion and then we talk of uh the next meeting. So um we want to to do a new remote control. It has to be original, trendy and user friendly.
Marketing: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Um I think the important points we have to t talk about are uh it's functional design, it's conceptual design, and desail detailed design. {gap} and for that we're going um all to work individually and then have meeting during the whole day. Um, so {vocalsound} let's try the whiteboard {vocalsound}.
Marketing: {vocalsound} {vocalsound} Wow. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} Um so any of you who want to go.
User Interface: Yeah, for favourite animals.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: It's gonna be not my favourite one but the one I can draw.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
User Interface: {vocalsound} And it's gonna be {disfmarker} you'll try to guess.
Marketing: Wow. {vocalsound} {vocalsound} Complex.
Project Manager: Wow. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: Huh? A cat.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: No. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: No. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: No. Darn. {vocalsound} Uh.
Project Manager: A rabbit.
User Interface: Yes, that's a rabbit.
Project Manager: {vocalsound} A rabbit.
User Interface: That's my favourite one.
Marketing: A what?
Industrial Designer: Rabbit.
Marketing: A r a rabbit, oh oh yeah, where is the carrot? {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: {vocalsound} That's it.
Marketing: Okay {vocalsound} mm-hmm.
Project Manager: You want to go?
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: I am not very good at uh {vocalsound} this kind of stuff.
User Interface: Hmm. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: My favourite animal is {disfmarker} {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} You wa
Marketing: {vocalsound}
User Interface: Wow. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: A human
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: Guess.
Project Manager: {vocalsound} ah.
Marketing: {vocalsound} A human, yay. It's a very complex animal {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
User Interface: No.
Marketing: and um {disfmarker} yeah. Characteristics of this this animal is {vocalsound} dangerous. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Mm I think you're supposed to, yeah.
Industrial Designer: Is the white {disfmarker} okay.
Project Manager: Hmm.
Industrial Designer: I guess you can {disfmarker} {vocalsound} {gap}. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: Wow. That's cobra.
Marketing: Ah, a kind of uh snake? Cobra?
Industrial Designer: Yeah uh not really.
Marketing: Exactly {vocalsound}. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Small cobra. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: No, it just {disfmarker} small cobra, yeah.
Project Manager: {vocalsound} Is that a worm? Or {vocalsound} {disfmarker} {vocalsound}
Marketing: Uh-huh. {vocalsound}
User Interface: It's co c quite recognisable. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} What about you uh {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} Uh yeah Christa Pavlov {vocalsound} Mm.
Marketing: Christa? {vocalsound}
User Interface: Christa {vocalsound} Christa.
Industrial Designer: Chris. {vocalsound}
Marketing: A fish. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: Mm.
User Interface: Hmm.
Project Manager: Smiling fish {vocalsound}.
Industrial Designer: Smile fish. {vocalsound}
User Interface: {vocalsound} Okay.
Marketing: A smiling fish. {vocalsound} Mm-hmm.
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Marketing: So, w whiteboard is working? {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Yeah. {vocalsound}
User Interface: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: Yeah. {vocalsound}
Marketing: Good. {vocalsound} Next. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Next. Let's talk about money.
User Interface: Just tr try to guess who is a User Interface Designer.
Marketing: {vocalsound} Yeah, well. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: {vocalsound} According to the drawings.
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Yeah, you're {disfmarker}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Marketing: Not me. {vocalsound}
User Interface: {vocalsound} Okay.
Project Manager: {vocalsound} So.
Marketing: So. Twenty five Euro for a remote control.
Project Manager: Yeah, mm that's the price we want to {disfmarker}
Industrial Designer: Hmm.
Project Manager: that's the aim for the price for the remote control.
Marketing: Okay.
Project Manager: We aim to do {vocalsound} this profit. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
User Interface: {vocalsound} On the international market.
Marketing: {vocalsound}'tis big number.
Project Manager: {vocalsound} Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Industrial Designer: Yeah, we're to sell two million then.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: Wow.
Marketing: Mm-hmm.
Project Manager: Mm {vocalsound} for a production cost of mm twelve fifty Euros maximum. {vocalsound}'Kay {vocalsound}. So any of you have experience in remote controls? {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: Mm yeah.
Marketing: Uh yes, we have plenty at home.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} In fact, my daughter likes l {vocalsound} {gap} {vocalsound} remote controls.
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} That {disfmarker}
User Interface: Mm. To eat? {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: To eat? Yeah, mainly, and to break. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} {vocalsound} So that could be a great um {vocalsound} application.
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Remote controls children proof. Mm mm-hmm.
Marketing: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
User Interface: Children proof.
Marketing: {vocalsound} Ye ye yeah.
User Interface: Hmm.
Marketing: So she likes uh buttons {vocalsound} which make click,
Project Manager: {vocalsound} Okay.
Industrial Designer: Yeah, pret
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Marketing: so {vocalsound} it has to click.
Project Manager: So they have to be waterproof maybe?
Marketing: It has to be uh wha {vocalsound} baby proof {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}'Cause they eat {disfmarker} she ate it. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: yeah {vocalsound} but mainly it has to be very robust
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Marketing: because even if she's not very tall she's uh {vocalsound} high enough so that uh when she throw it away it's uh {disfmarker}
Industrial Designer: Yeah.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Ah.
Marketing: So it has to be very robust.
User Interface: Okay, unbreakable.
Marketing: Unbreakable, yeah.
User Interface: Uh-huh.
Industrial Designer: Yeah, we have some child lock or something, yeah.
Marketing: Mm-hmm.
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Marketing: And uh {vocalsound} it has to be nice looking,
Industrial Designer: Yeah.
Marketing: colourful, maybe {disfmarker}
Project Manager: Colourful, yeah mm.
User Interface: Colourful? That's not practical.
Marketing: colourful, because uh nobody has colourful remote control
Industrial Designer: Yeah.
Project Manager: No, that's a good idea.
Industrial Designer: Yeah, it's always black or {disfmarker} yeah.
Marketing: , they're always black, yeah,
Project Manager: Mm mm-mm.
User Interface: No.
Marketing: but this one could be I dunno, purple or b
Project Manager: Yeah. {vocalsound}
User Interface: But how gonna {disfmarker} okay, just uh but it's uh monochrome it's n it's not like {disfmarker}
Industrial Designer: Yeah.
Marketing: Yeah, yeah.
Project Manager: No,
Industrial Designer: Yeah.
Project Manager: because you think, why not.
User Interface: Otherwise you will never find it.
Marketing: One colour.
Industrial Designer: Yeah.
Marketing: Yeah, yeah.
Industrial Designer: Yeah even we can change colours, no? Like the uh
Marketing: Oh like the phones,
Industrial Designer: like the phones and these things we c yeah.
Marketing: yeah, it could change colours, yeah.
User Interface: Cool.
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Industrial Designer: At least for children like one colour and {gap}. {vocalsound}
User Interface: Ch
Marketing: Yeah. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Good idea.
Marketing: Good.
Industrial Designer: And it should be really {gap} small and {gap}.
Project Manager: Small also? Don't you think {disfmarker}
Industrial Designer: Huh not so big like {disfmarker} yeah.
Project Manager: No uh, not too much buttons or {disfmarker} mm.
Industrial Designer: Yeah, not too much buttons and {disfmarker}
Marketing: {vocalsound} Should it be, y you know these uh remote controls where um they are what they call a universal ret remote control
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Marketing: so y you can decide that now it's the remote control for the television, then it's the remote control for the the sound system, or for your refrigerator
Industrial Designer: Uh. Yeah.
Project Manager: {vocalsound} {vocalsound} Yeah,
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} whatever {vocalsound}
Project Manager: that's {disfmarker}
Marketing: I dunno if it's {disfmarker}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Marketing: Or if we should have a targeted re remote control.
Project Manager: Okay.
Marketing: {vocalsound} So colour, robustness, easy to use, size,
Project Manager: So, I think there's {disfmarker}
Marketing: yeah, size matters, yeah. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: Yeah. Colour, {vocalsound} size, sh
Project Manager: So you you think it's better if small than bigger.
Industrial Designer: Yeah, maybe at least n not bigger than this I guess. {vocalsound}
Marketing: Mm.
User Interface: Yeah, but without any extremes like n not of this size, not too large. Okay.
Marketing: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: No, not too small, yeah.
Industrial Designer: Yeah yeah, at least it should hold in your hand n properly, like {gap}.
Marketing: Yeah.
Project Manager: Hmm.
User Interface: Yeah, like a palm sized.
Industrial Designer: Yeah. {vocalsound}
User Interface: Just to hold it.
Marketing: Mm.
Project Manager: Okay.
Marketing: But uh what would be different from this, from the others? I dunno if {vocalsound} {disfmarker}
Industrial Designer: Uh maybe we can change the colours that {disfmarker} at least the frame. Mm. S so then it depends {disfmarker}
Marketing: Yeah, at least the colour would be different.
Industrial Designer: you are to {disfmarker}
Project Manager: Mm.
Industrial Designer: Mm I mean you c you can easily remove the frame {gap}.
Marketing: I think one thing important for instance in this remote control if you remember when people use it they're {disfmarker} they never find a good button in the right place.
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Industrial Designer: Yeah, yeah.
Marketing: For some reason they they they click the off button when they want to use the {disfmarker}
Industrial Designer: Yeah. Yeah.
Marketing: So there's a problem in the design of that kind of remote control somehow,
Project Manager: Mm. So, some kind of idea uh with um um {vocalsound} cellular phone with a a screen that will tell you what {disfmarker}
Marketing: I dunno {gap}.
User Interface: No,
Project Manager: no.
User Interface: no screens, it's too complex.
Project Manager: Okay.
Industrial Designer: Mm. {vocalsound} Too expensive, yeah.
Marketing: {vocalsound} Too expensive for twelve Euro?
User Interface: And n maybe not too expensive,
Project Manager: And too expensive.
User Interface: well it's not my problem, but well okay.
Marketing: Ah.
User Interface: But no screens on remote controls.
Project Manager: Mm.
Marketing: Mm-hmm. I thought it could be only a screen {vocalsound} which would change depending on uh uh the use or even the user.
User Interface: Mm-hmm.
Marketing: So ma I prefer to have the off button at the top right,
Industrial Designer: Ye yeah.
Marketing: so I would have my own design of the remote control because it's in fact just a a full touch screen remote control,
Industrial Designer: Hmm.
Marketing: if you {disfmarker} if you like.
Industrial Designer: I mean it it's like
Marketing: I don't know if it makes sense, but {disfmarker}
Project Manager: Mm-mm.
Industrial Designer: {disfmarker} it's like two types no? {vocalsound} people are right handed or left handed so y because I am left handed I use like this, say if you're right handed you use like this
Marketing: Yeah, for instance, mm.
User Interface: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Project Manager: Mm-hmm. Mm mm mm.
Industrial Designer: or {disfmarker} so tha your switch on and off should be on
Marketing: Mm.
Project Manager: So adaptable {vocalsound} {disfmarker} yeah something {disfmarker}
User Interface: Adaptable. Alright, good,
Industrial Designer: {disfmarker} yeah.
Marketing: Maybe, if if it's possible, yeah.
Project Manager: yeah.
Industrial Designer: Mm {vocalsound}
User Interface: so how many actions do we need to implement in it?
Industrial Designer: huh.
User Interface: On off?
Industrial Designer: Maybe I think even we can keep two switches and then we can uh only make one working.
Marketing: {vocalsound} Yeah.
Industrial Designer: We can adapt only one switch, suppose here like we can make two switches and if I'm left-hander I use this switch to follow the main operations.
User Interface: I mean if it's less than three uh then we can make it uh like a
Industrial Designer: Two.
Marketing: Three buttons you mean?
User Interface: {vocalsound} like three mental states,
Project Manager: Three option.
User Interface: yeah you know what I mean,
Marketing: Ah. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: we can just make it uh
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} {vocalsound} Yeah. Yeah.
Project Manager: Um.
User Interface: controlled by a brain, huh? {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} Mm-hmm, yeah, sure. {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} Maybe if it's more, if there is a software inside
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Project Manager: that ask you three {disfmarker}
User Interface: Mm-hmm.
Project Manager: Hmm.
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} {vocalsound} {disfmarker}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} If it {disfmarker} if we want a r universal remote control that we sa like we say before it may may need more than three mm three button, three mm possibilities, ye yeah.
User Interface: Sh sure, sure.
Marketing: Yeah, more than three actions that you may want to do at a given time.
Industrial Designer: Mm yeah. Yeah. {vocalsound}
User Interface: But for standard actions you usually what do you do, you change channels, you adjust volume, and nothing else.
Marketing: Yeah but for instance when you change channels you can have {disfmarker} you can just go to the next one or go to channel twenty five.
Industrial Designer: Mm. Yeah.
Project Manager: Mm. {vocalsound}
Marketing: And that's already more complex to go to channel twenty five. {vocalsound}
User Interface: Mm-hmm.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
User Interface: You do this?
Industrial Designer: Yeah {vocalsound}.
Marketing: Uh no.
User Interface: I usually just change channels.
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} Because I'm only using three or four channels but {disfmarker} {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound} Yeah. But they keep generally their t slash slash uh this thing and then the dash dash and then you can put {disfmarker} yeah, you can only have one bit.
Project Manager: Yeah. I change channel like this, m uh I want to go to twenty five, and then to ten, uh-huh mm yeah.
Industrial Designer: Dash.
Marketing: And then back to the one I was before,
Project Manager: Also we can be here {disfmarker}
Marketing: so there's {disfmarker} whichever it was.
User Interface: Uh-huh.
Industrial Designer: Yeah you can
Project Manager: yeah, that would be cool.
Industrial Designer: {disfmarker} yeah.
User Interface: Go back button is good.
Industrial Designer: Yeah.
Marketing: Yeah. Uh uh we had that in in other countries.
User Interface: I once had it.
Industrial Designer: Yeah yeah, the previous button is {gap}.
Project Manager: Mm {vocalsound} yeah.
Marketing: {vocalsound} Yeah e even the history so you could like uh undo {vocalsound} previous of the previous. {vocalsound}
User Interface: Mm-hmm.
Industrial Designer: Uh, okay. {vocalsound}
User Interface: History. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: Oh {vocalsound} uh {vocalsound}.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Marketing: Then you can watch what your {disfmarker} ah you could also record your {disfmarker} record your {vocalsound} sequence of actions,
Industrial Designer: Uh.
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: Yeah. {vocalsound} {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} that becomes more complex,
Project Manager: {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: {vocalsound}
Marketing: but you could look at what uh the other people have used there or {disfmarker} {vocalsound} remote controls.
Industrial Designer: Yeah yeah, what the {disfmarker} which channels the viewer {disfmarker} {vocalsound}
Project Manager: Mm-mm.
Marketing: {vocalsound} Yeah {vocalsound}
Project Manager: {vocalsound} Okay.
Marketing: maybe it's a {disfmarker}
Project Manager: So I think we have full of idea.
Marketing: Okay.
Project Manager: Um we're going to meet again in thirty minutes and uh I want you to mm {vocalsound} work on these ideas and try to make a uh {vocalsound} the ones, {vocalsound} make um {disfmarker} to decide what what are the ones important and what are the one that we don't want. {vocalsound} And um m maybe more in the technical parts what uh do we want to do. Um. {vocalsound} So um your personal coach will send you some instruction for for this thirty minutes.
Marketing: So what does M_E_ means? M_E_ the user requirements? Or that's uh that's for us?
User Interface: Market Expert.
Project Manager: Mm. {vocalsound}
Industrial Designer: Marketing {disfmarker} yeah {vocalsound} {gap}.
Marketing: Uh that's me.
User Interface: {vocalsound}
Marketing: {vocalsound} Oh, of course {vocalsound} yeah, the user requirement specifications, uh-huh, yeah.
Project Manager: Mm-hmm.
Marketing: Okay. {vocalsound} I'll think of that.
Project Manager: Mm okay. So.
Marketing: So?
Project Manager: I think that's all.
Marketing: Meeting's over?
Project Manager: Yeah.
User Interface: Okay.
Marketing: Great.
Industrial Designer: Thank you.
Marketing: Thank you.
Project Manager: See you in thirty minutes.
User Interface: Thank you everybody.
He suggested that the remote control must look good and be brightly coloured. Although not colourful, they could choose a variety of monochrome to meet the aesthetic needs of children, thus improving the suitability of the remote control for children.