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title: '**materiality**'
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  **Materiality** — as explored in the channel's captured material — is the
  quality of a product that comes from how it is physically made and
  constructed, illustrated through Jason Fried's examples of watches, cars, and
  architecture: the sense that something feels _right_, rather than merely
  listing features.
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# \*\*materiality\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/materiality-ecfe9866cfa2

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**Materiality** — as explored in the channel's captured material — is the quality of a product that comes from how it is physically made and constructed, illustrated through Jason Fried's examples of watches, cars, and architecture: the sense that something feels _right_, rather than merely listing features.

In the captured material, **materiality** is explored through the lens of physical, crafted objects: watches, cars, and architecture. These are the examples Jason Fried uses to explain how products can feel *right* — a quality that comes from what things are made of and how they are put together, not from a feature list [^vid].The source material frames this as the difference between designing for a **feeling** and designing for a checklist. Materiality is the vocabulary for that feeling: the sense of weight, finish, and construction a well-made object carries, and which good product design aims to reproduce.- **Materiality** is explored via physical objects: watches, cars, and architecture [^vid].- It connects to designing for a *feeling* rather than a feature list [^vid].- It is presented as part of the craft behind 26 years of building products.