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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Introduction==<br />
Japanese design treats surface as a channel that carries information to the hand and the eye at the same time. The vocabulary is unusually specific about it. Hadazawari (肌触り) names the feel of a surface against skin. Tezawari (手触り) names the feel in the hand. Shibusa (渋み) names a restrained, understated quality that becomes more interesting on longer acquaintance rather than less.<br />
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Surfaces are also expected to change. Urushi lacquer develops depth with use. Wood floors and handrails darken where hands and feet fall. Unglazed clay absorbs oil from tea. A surface that records use is legible about its own history, which is the material basis of what is usually translated as wabi-sabi.<br />
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===Texture as an interface===<br />
Texture does work that a display would otherwise have to do.<br />
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* Orientation. A ridged edge, a change of grain or a raised boss tells a hand which way an object goes without a mark or a label being read.<br />
* Grip. A finish can be specified so that the hand holds an object correctly without being instructed.<br />
* State. A detent, a click or a change in resistance reports a setting to the fingers, leaving the eyes free.<br />
* Wear. A surface that ages visibly reports how much a thing has been used, which is information about the object that no indicator provides.<br />
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This has a formal research tradition. Kansei engineering, developed by Mitsuo Nagamachi at Hiroshima University from the 1970s, sets out to measure the affective response a person has to a product's physical properties and to feed those measurements back into specification. Mazda applied it to the interior of the MX-5.<br />
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A textured surface does not need to:<br />
*Be looked at<br />
*Carry a label<br />
*Be powered<br />
*Be learned from documentation<br />
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Just as a hand finds the right end of a tool by its finish, a well-made surface tells a person what to do with an object before they have looked at it.<br />
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==Categories==<br />
* [[Japanese Concepts]]<br />
** [[Nijiriguchi]]<br />
** [[Onta Yaki]]<br />
** [[Stopping Stone]]<br />
** [[Ward off Deer]]<br />
** [[Omotenashi]]<br />
** [[Washi Paper]]<br />
** [[Texture]]<br />
** [[Modernist Design]]<br />
* [[Calm Technology]]</div>Caseorganic