multimodal-sensory-feedback

name	multimodal-sensory-feedback
description	Use when designing alerts, confirmations, warnings, or feedback that should be perceivable through multiple sensory channels.

Multimodal Sensory Feedback

Use this skill when reviewing how systems communicate state and change. Focus on ensuring that feedback can be perceived even when one sensory channel is unavailable, noisy, overwhelming, or inappropriate.

Review Sensory Reliance

• Identify where meaning depends on sound, color, vibration, animation, or timing alone
• Review critical alerts, confirmations, errors, and ambient indicators
• Consider contexts where users cannot see, hear, or feel the signal reliably
• Check whether assistive technologies also receive the relevant information

Improve Redundancy

• Combine text, semantics, visuals, sound, and haptics where appropriate
• Keep feedback specific, noticeable, and non-overwhelming
• Make critical messages persistent enough to be noticed and reviewed
• Avoid simultaneous cues that create overload or conflict

Output

• Highlight single-channel feedback risks
• Recommend balanced multi-sensory alternatives
• Prioritize improvements where missed signals cause failure or safety risk