Modularity, Architecture & System Design¶
Primes about how systems are decomposed and designed: modularity and hierarchical decomposability, layering and interfaces, design patterns and platform design, top-down perspectives and downward causation, formal vs informal structures, robustness and substitutability, FMEA, legacy integration, reverse engineering, backcasting.
19 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.
- Backcasting — mixed-framed · distinctive
- Black Box vs. White Box Distinction — mixed-structural · mid
- Concurrent, Cross-Functional Collaboration — framed · distinctive
- Design for Lifecycle Adaptability — mixed-framed · mid
- Design Patterns — mixed-structural · mid
- Downward Causation — structural · mid
- Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) — mixed-framed · mid
- Formal vs. Informal Structures — mixed-framed · crowded
- Hierarchical Decomposability — — · crowded
- Interface — structural · crowded
- Layering — structural · mid
- Legacy Integration — mixed-framed · crowded
- Modularity — mixed-structural · mid
- Platform Design — mixed-structural · distinctive
- Problem Space — mixed-structural · distinctive
- Reverse Engineering — mixed-framed · mid
- Robustness — structural · mid
- Substitutability — structural · crowded
- Top-Down Perspectives — mixed-structural · crowded