Minutes- Kick-Off Meeting
- compiled by R. Lindgren

4/3/05
11:10

Agenda
• Opening
• Acquaintance
• Tool training 
• Project plan
• Discussion
• Closing (we have 25 minutes!)

Project Aim
• New remote control
- Original
- Trendy
- User friendly

Project Method
• Functional design 
- Individual work
- Meeting
• Conceptual design
- Individual work
- Meeting
• Detailed design
- Individual work
- Meeting

Tool Training
• Try out whiteboard!
- Every participant should draw their favorite animal and sum up their favorite characteristics of that animal

Introductions
* Alima- Industrial Designer
o Drew a Turtle 'pretty little shell'
o Nice to carry your home around

* Iain- User Interface Designer
o Whale- quiet intelligence, kind of mysterious

* Jessie- Marketing
o Seal- playful and silly

* Rose- Project Manager
o Coyote- sings to the moon, beautiful animal, association with home

Project Finance
• Selling price: 25 euro
• Profit aim: 50 M euro
- Market range: international
• Production costs: max. 12.50 euro

Discussion
• Examples:
- Experience with remote control
- First ideas new remote
- Etc.
* J = Jessie, I = Iain, A = Alima, R = Rose
* J
o Hate when 4 different buttons to turn on the TV
o Not good to combine remotes together
o Multi-media overload
o Maybe need a device to help find it
* I
o Very good to have a remote
o 'lazy'- don't have to get up
o have to use 3 different remotes for each function
o too complicated, too many buttons
* A
o Too many- father has a whole drawer of remotes
o Needs to be easy to use- not too many buttons, not too small
o How to make infrared work without having to move the remote around
* J
o Batteries- do all remotes have to use?
* R
o What about a lithium battery?  Longer lasting
* A
o Make a remote with only essential functions, maybe with a separate one with special functions
o Need large buttons
* I
o Is this project just for designing a remote specifically for television?
o R- good question, I'll try to look into it

Closing
• Next meeting starts in 30 minutes
• Individual actions
- ID: the working design
- UID: the technical functions design 
- ME: the user requirements specification 
• Specific instructions will be sent to you by your personal coach.