Design for the need of tactile feeling

This paper intends to discuss the potential tactile need of human and resort to design-especially industrial design-to fulfill it, in other words, to rediscover the basic need and encourage people to notice it. Touch feeling may be not only a subordinative consideration in industrial design and we expect the possible popularity of future touch-contented products. The paper consists of four parts: the importance and potential need of touch feeling, the current design research and products connecting touch feeling and the future design trend to satisfy touch feeling. It will be based on observations, interviews of typical people and a questionnaire survey, which intertwine together thus to make the analysis more convincing, to achieve the final result.