Value Lanes
Multiple Pathways to Product Design Argumentation
Range of pathways of ethical and value-focused argumentation
As a technology and design practitioner, you constantly navigate competing demands—user needs, business goals, technical constraints, legal obligations, and personal or societal values. Value Lanes offers a structured set of pathways for exploring ethical and value-driven argumentation throughout the product development process. Whether in team discussions, standups, or stakeholder meetings, we regularly advocate for different perspectives shaped by our disciplines and contexts.
Introducing Value Lanes—a conversational game designed to build your ethical reasoning and argumentation skills. Every lane prompts reflection, every card sparks dialogue, and every decision strengthens your ability to argue for what matters.
Charting arguments through a range of values
Value Lanes provides design and technology practitioners ways to craft their arguments across a range of values such as user, technical, legal, business, and personal.
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Principles that prioritize user needs, experiences, and ethical treatment in product interactions.
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Standards that ensure system reliability, scalability, efficiency, and maintainability.
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Goals that align product design with profitability, market growth, and strategic differentiation.
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Requirements that ensure products comply with laws, regulations, and data protection policies.
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Individual beliefs and ethics that influence how designers and users interact with technology.
Supporting you with “What you can say…”
Value Lanes Cards help you build your argumentation skills for creating value-centered products. Designed to support thoughtful, resonant practice, the cards help you explore tensions, navigate trade-offs, and engage in meaningful dialogue. Use them to contribute new perspectives, align with ongoing conversations, balance conflicting values—and when all else fails, drop a bold statement with a Mic Drop dialogue.
More Coming soon… Stay Tuned!