This 1 hour course for architects, specifiers, interior designers, facility managers, and residential designers, provides an overview of the benefits of designing a space with ample views and daylight, the challenges this presents, and how motorized shading can help solve these issues. No prerequisite knowledge required to take this course. Once finished readers will be able to discuss the benefits of natural light and how it can be maximized and controlled to enhance the personal comfort of the building occupants, explain how energy can be conserved through the proper specification of automated shades, identify the different shade motorization options along with the controls and building integration possibilities, and discuss the importance of specification and some of the issuesthat can come about during construction, and detail how motorized shades can contribute to credits under today’s green building programs. A ten question quiz follows the course.