The work aims to clarify the research context of tactile design in China and abroad, grasp its basic research fields and research hotspots in China and abroad, and infer its research development trend based on the results of scientific knowledge graph. By collecting the literature on tactile design in CNKI database and Web of Science core collection database, CiteSpace software was used to visualize and analyze the data, and the Keywordfrequency and relationship between Chinese and foreign literature on tactile design were expressed in the form of scientific knowledge graph. Through the analysis on the graph output by the software, it was found that the focus of tactile design in China and abroad was slightly different, and the main basic research fields were the research of tactile mechanism and experience, the research of tactile feedback, and the research and development of tactile sensors. The research progress and shortcomings of tactile design in different fields were analyzed. The tactile design has great development prospects in both physical products and virtual reality, among which the synesthetic experience of tactile and other perceptions, the encoding of tactile information and the tactile reproduction in virtual reality are important trends in the future development of tactile interventional design.