Approach

In my opinion, the essence of this design is its minimalist nature. I approached this design by thinking about "how might I design something that is useful, usable, utilize the skills I have been learning in this class, and does not take a crazy amount of time since I am managing a number of projects with tight deadlines lately?" As such, the approach can be summarized as: maximized use of new skillsets learned from IOT class + minimized time spent on the workload + solving a real problem effectively.