A designed product is perceived as a whole when being used. This wholeness does not only include the object itself, but all other related entities, the history behind it as well as all the customs and habits of dealing with such a product. Our perception is build up on vast background of other activities and events.

Regardless of the method we choose to decompose an object into its building element, we always destroy that wholeness, getting elements that no longer preserve the properties of the original product although those elements may still remind us of the original product.