multimodal-feedback

name	multimodal-feedback
description	Use when designing or reviewing confirmations, alerts, errors, and status changes so important information is conveyed through more than one sensory channel.

Multimodal Feedback

Use this skill when reviewing how the system communicates outcomes and state changes. Focus on ensuring that users can perceive important feedback regardless of vision, hearing, attention, or environment.

Review Feedback Channels

• Identify success, error, warning, loading, and status messages across the interface
• Check whether meaning depends on color, sound, motion, or timing alone
• Consider noisy, quiet, bright, distracting, or hands-busy contexts
• Review feedback for assistive technology compatibility and cognitive clarity

Improve Redundancy & Clarity

• Combine visual, textual, semantic, and where appropriate auditory or haptic cues
• Make messages specific about what happened and what to do next
• Ensure feedback persists long enough to be noticed and understood
• Avoid overwhelming users with excessive or competing signals

Output

• Highlight single-channel feedback risks
• Recommend multi-modal alternatives for critical system communication
• Prioritize fixes where missed feedback leads to errors or confusion