I have been meaning to add my research online for some time now. I finally got time to delete the old content on this site. Mostly related to my comic book and the film. I am going to repurpose this site to write about my research in systems design, my work in building products and the tools that I come across.

For starters, I am going to talk about the Morphological Box. It is a great analysis tool for non-quantifiable problems and to come up with an approach for a solution.

The basic premise is pretty simple. One needs to break a system into its subsystems then come up with alternative ideas for components and go to town on creating combinations. I have used this box as a starting point for trade-off analysis and have greatly benefited from it. Give it a try.

Here is an example from the Industrial Design Engineering Wiki

http://www.wikid.eu/index.php/Morphological_chart

Image Credit: Wikid.eu