--- title: Haptics is Music: How to Design The Right Haptic Patterns description: Haptic feedback shares fundamental properties with music — rhythm, tempo, dynamics, articulation, and silence — and can be designed using the same... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/haptics-is-music-how-to-design-the-right-haptic-patterns-acwsxz6zq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Haptics is Music: How to Design The Right Haptic Patterns | daily.dev og:description: Haptic feedback shares fundamental properties with music — rhythm, tempo, dynamics, articulation, and silence — and can be designed using the same... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/haptics-is-music-how-to-design-the-right-haptic-patterns-acwsxz6zq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/acWSxZ6zQ.png og:image:alt: Haptics is Music: How to Design The Right Haptic Patterns og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Haptics is Music: How to Design The Right Haptic Patterns **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Haptic feedback shares fundamental properties with music — rhythm, tempo, dynamics, articulation, and silence — and can be designed using the same compositional thinking. Research confirms that rhythm perception is shared between hearing and touch, processed through the same brain mechanisms. Practical design principles include: designing the pause between pulses (not just the pulse itself), matching vibration intensity to the stakes of the action, thinking in sequences rather than single buzzes, ensuring congruence between haptics, sound, and animation, and always testing on real devices since LRA motors vary significantly across hardware. The post introduces Pulsar, a free open-source haptic library for React Native, Swift, and Kotlin with 150+ presets and a browser preview tool. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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