Designing with Friction
Also known as: Friction by Design
An HCI design stance, associated with Matthias Korn and Amy Voida, that argues for deliberately introducing friction into interactive systems to surface politics, provoke reflection, and enable democratic contention — rather than pursuing frictionless user experience as a neutral good. In accessibility and disability-justice work, designing with friction is extended from designer-led provocation to community-generated disruption (counteractive frictions) through which disabled communities challenge exclusionary infrastructure.
Category: Design Theory · HCI · Interaction Design · critical theory
Related: Access as Friction · Counteractive Frictions · Access Friction