Going into the ideation process, neither one of us had strong feelings about the mechanism we wanted to create, which made it more difficult to settle on one idea. We played around with some ideas that were more decorative, which gave great visual feedback, but ultimately decided that we would prefer creating a product with functionality. When ideating, we asked each other questions such as "What experience do we want to create through the creation of this mechanism?" and sifted through ideas as we determined what was realistic given our time constraint. This prompted a lot of need finding discussions amongst us, during which we both realized that we have both had experiences where people have walked into our dorm rooms when we were trying to rest. This is when we came up with The Sleep Switch, a functional solution to aid people in getting much needed beauty rest when it is due.