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Friction Audit
Finding and removing the steps and trips that recur daily in the tasks you do most.
A keep-close version. Read it here, or screenshot this page to have it on your phone — print and PDF copies will appear once final files are attached.
Friction is every small obstacle between you and a finished task — paid dozens of times a day, every day. Walk three recurring tasks from intention to finish, count the steps, then cross two out per task. The body was always the point, not the tidiness of the storage.
Task one — and its honest step count
The task, walked start to finish
e.g. Evening medication: get up, cross to the kitchen, open the cupboard, take it, walk back — 4 steps, 2 trips
Task two
Walked the same way
e.g. Morning wash: bathroom for kit, bedroom for clothes, kitchen for the kettle — 3 rooms, 3 transitions
Task three
And its steps
e.g. Making a drink: cupboard, kettle, fridge, cupboard, back to where I rest — 5 touches, each one upright
What could go?
- A spare of something cheap in the place it's used — removing the trip entirely
- A step that's really a standard ('put away properly') — and can be retired
- Two steps that could become one — group the things, group the task
- A step someone else could own
Two things I'm crossing out
The two cheapest changes, written here as decisions rather than intentions.
Crossed out
e.g. Medication now lives by the sofa too; the kettle moved next to the cups
Reducing friction is not laziness disguised as design. Each removed step is paid back daily, from the budget that was meant for something better than trips.