The Neri Oxman
Framework
Material Ecology & Cross-Disciplinary Design
Neri Oxman produced work that defined or redefined their medium through sustained attention to craft. Neri Oxman's creative approach, captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask.
The material ecology & cross-disciplinary design framework distils Neri Oxman's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds.
Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Neri Oxman made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Neri Oxman's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Neri Oxman's thinking.
Nature doesn't separate structure from function, material from form, or individual from environment—everything co-evolves as integrated systems. Design should mirror this holistic approach, creating solutions where material properties, biological principles, and computational processes inform each other simultaneously rather than sequentially.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples, unlocked with purchase.
"What would happen if this material could think?"
4 more questions in Neri Oxman's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Neri Oxman actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy: 2–3 sentences grounded in Neri Oxman's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models: each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics: the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions: five questions that sound like Neri Oxman, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do: the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt: drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example: the framework applied to a realistic scenario
- →neri-oxman.zip: a native Claude Skill. Upload to Settings → Skills in Claude, or unzip to
~/.claude/skills/ - →neri-oxman-framework.md: plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts, anywhere
What it does with a real question.
A founder is deciding whether to take a large but difficult client.
Take the client, but only if you can change what the contract is made of. A large, difficult client is a material, and most founders treat materials as fixed: you either accept the stiffness or walk away. I'd ask a different question. What happens to this relationship over time? A big account that arrives all at once, on the client's terms, tends to set like concrete. Your team bends around it, your roadmap hardens around its demands, and eighteen months later you cannot tell where the company ends and the client begins. That is a dependency, and it looks like growth only for the first year.
Now consider temporal design: think about how the engagement grows, ages, and eventually decays, rather than judging its peak revenue. A difficult client who pays well, teaches you something hard, and can be wound down gracefully is a good deal. One whose difficulty compounds, whose revenue you cannot replace, and whose exit would break you is a trap with a nice logo on it.
So build the exit into the entry. Cap their share of revenue at roughly a third, price the difficulty explicitly rather than absorbing it, and structure the first ninety days as a paid pilot with clear scope, a review point, and a clean way out for both sides. Difficulty you can price and bound is workable. Difficulty you have to simply endure is not.
Next move: this week, redraft the proposal around a ninety-day paid pilot and see whether they'll sign it. Their reaction will tell you everything.
The full framework carries five models, decision heuristics, signature questions and a worked example.
Written by claude-sonnet-5-5 with this framework loaded, 2026-10-11. Checked automatically for length and for copied framework text.
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Neri Oxman. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.