40 inventive principles / #33
#33 Homogeneity
What it says
- Make objects that interact out of the same material, or a material with similar properties.
Examples
- Software
- One language and toolchain across front end and back end.
- Business
- Shared values and vocabulary across merged teams.
- Engineering
- A container made of the same material as its contents to avoid reactions.
- Everyday life
- Use one brand of charger for all devices.
Where the matrix suggests it
The classic contradiction matrix suggests Homogeneity in 31 of its 1,248 filled cells. Most often for these conflicts:
- Improving Shape worsens Stability of the object's composition
- Improving Stability of the object's composition worsens Speed
- Improving Loss of substance worsens External harm affects the object
- Improving Quantity of substance worsens Manufacturing precision
- Improving External harm affects the object worsens Loss of substance
- Improving External harm affects the object worsens Extent of automation
- Improving Area of moving object worsens External harm affects the object
- Improving Speed worsens Stability of the object's composition