Integral philosophy meets product design

Sri Aurobindo's Integral Philosophy applied to product thinking: wholeness, evolution, and the non-reductive view.

Most product frameworks reduce the user to a behaviour. Sri Aurobindo's Integral Philosophy refuses to reduce — physical, vital, mental levels each real, each irreducible. Applied to product design, this becomes a lens for building software that serves the whole person, not just the task.

Ideas to develop: the non-reductive view vs. funnel thinking, purna (wholeness) as a design constraint, whether your product helps users grow or keeps them dependent, the four quadrants (Wilber's extension) as a product audit framework.

Full essay coming soon.