Friction: Embodied Cognition and Tactile Interface Design

Friction is about why physical resistance is not a design flaw — and what we lose when we design it away.

The book draws on research in mechanoreception, embodied cognition, and the somatic marker hypothesis to argue that the deliberate removal of physical resistance from our tools and interfaces has real costs — cognitive, emotional, and sensory — that are rarely accounted for in product design.

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