Once we came up with a set of goals and requirements for our prosthetic hand the next logical step was to determine what we wanted the the hand to be capable of actually doing. Ideally the hand should be extremely easy to use and should be capable of gripping a range of different objects without being too difficult or confusing to the user. The following picture illustrates the brainstorming that went into the design  throughout the process of determining where the degrees of freedom would be in comparison to an actual human hand. The image also shows the general systems that we will likely have to take into consideration in the design of our prosthetic.