The Firma Model is a meta-framework for design that provides models for research, strategy, and critique. It views problems as existing within a broader ecology that includes immediate, contextual, and paradigmatic areas of concern. These areas include users, organizations, markets, legacy issues, the environment, society, politics, economics, culture, and history. The model aims to provide an information architecture to understand these relationships and their influences, from narrow to broad, to properly frame problems, develop strategic solutions, and allow for critique by tracing impacts.