Sound

We explored a variety of sound effects, and narrowed down to two: “Shush” and “Shut up”. We ran a quick user testing for feedback and found that users preferred “shush” because it was less intimidating and has a touch of humor. 

Group Message

The intent of the group message is to inform people who are not currently in the studio and who might miss the Shush sound. We chose Slack as the platform to reach all students in the cohort.

Knob

Finally, we want our device to be non-intrusive as it blends into the environment and intuitive to use. We explored the form of a pen holder and used a pen as the knob handle. On the pen holder, we specified 3 different states: off, occupied, important. For each state, a light from the bottom of the pen holder will light up to update the status of the user's action.