Get clear on what you need and where to find it.
Most teams start shopping before they know what they're shopping for. Carla helps you define the need — functional, acoustic, spatial — before you open a single spec sheet.
Privacy Pod Consultant · Founder · Educator · Author
Carla Bostock has spent a decade shaping how privacy pods and modular workspaces get designed, specified, and installed. Designing Quiet is the independent platform she founded to bring that insider perspective directly to the architects and designers who specify these products, through a book, consulting, and practical tools built from what actually happens after the spec sheet.
Most teams start shopping before they know what they're shopping for. Carla helps you define the need — functional, acoustic, spatial — before you open a single spec sheet.
With over 200 manufacturers now in the market, the options are overwhelming. Carla provides a structured, vendor-neutral framework for comparing what actually matters in practice.
From compliance to post-installation support, Carla helps design teams build specifications that hold up — protecting the project and the people who use the space.
A Designer's Guide to Privacy Pods in the Modern Workplace
The first guide to privacy pods and modular workspaces, written for the architects and designers who specify them. Published as part of the Designing Quiet platform.
Carla delivers keynote addresses and conference presentations on acoustic performance, hybrid workspace design, and equitable access to quiet — for audiences who specify and shape these spaces.
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