Let’s say I have two components talking to each other. The first one calls a “get results” function from the second one. How should I return the results?

For example,

SomeObject getResults(String name); 

works fine but I am not sure whether it’s the best way to go. This way both components seems coupled to the SomeObject type and I really want to avoid that. But what would an alternative be?

I could return the results as a List, but this transfer the responsibility of interpreting the results to the first component.

So, how should I do that? What is the best design approach for this kind of problems?