TRIZ · Growth Library
Decompose a Hard Problem with TRIZ-Inspired Contradictions
Expose the conflict before optimizing around it.
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State the unwanted outcome, map the main parts and interactions, write the trade-off as two requirements that appear to conflict, generate separation or redesign options, choose a reversible check, and record which assumption or constraint changed.
Check-in: What contradiction did I expose, what separation or redesign did I check, and did it remove the conflict or only move it elsewhere?
Evidence: Practical guidance; no evidence-like claim is detected in the current source record.
Review note: The inherited TRIZ article contained pseudo-quantified outcomes, fabricated pilots, arbitrary timing rules, and broad superiority claims. The effective public record is rewritten as a bounded TRIZ-inspired problem-structuring exercise using contradiction and separation prompts. It is not presented as the full TRIZ method or as an evidence-backed effect-size claim.
Some problems stay hard because the current design treats a trade-off as fixed. A TRIZ-inspired pass asks whether conflicting requirements can be separated or whether the system can be changed so they no longer compete in the same way.
1. State the unwanted result
Describe what happens now and where it appears in the system. Separate symptoms from constraints you know are real.
2. Write the contradiction
Express the conflict as two requirements: what must improve and what must not become worse. Add the condition under which each requirement matters.
3. Separate, redesign, and check
Ask whether the requirements can be separated by time, place, condition, component, role, or state. Use a small reversible check and inspect side effects so the conflict is not merely moved elsewhere.
Questions to consider
Is this a complete TRIZ method?
No. This is a practical TRIZ-inspired structuring exercise using contradiction and separation prompts. It does not represent the full TRIZ body of methods or claim a measured effect.
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Review history
Current status: Reviewed. An editorial or evidence review is recorded and no later event changes that conclusion.
2026-09-10 · reviewed · Brali editorial agent (AI-assisted) Source: protocol-content-overrides-search-review-wave-1.json
Replace pseudo-quantified TRIZ outcomes, fabricated pilots, arbitrary timing rules, and broad superiority claims with a bounded problem-structuring exercise inspired by contradiction and separation.
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- Version 2025-10-06: first recorded publication in the migrated Brali corpus.
- Evidence review 2026-09-10: reviewed by Brali editorial agent (AI-assisted); evidence state is
practical.
Canonical source record · Evidence state: practical.