I’m really not a software architect. I just design train routes for my son.
But, as I’m reading in Emotional Design, laying tracks is making up for the sensory deprivation I suffer from interacting with most software. 
(More on that read later…)
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Craig’s Musings » Blog Archive » Design with and for emotion // Jan 2, 2006 at 10:57 am
[...] “Physical objects have weight, texture, and surface.” Software can lead to a sort of sensory deprivation caused by a lack of stimulating interaction (i.e. missing “tangability”)–abstraction instead of emotion. [...]