Insight in
four steps

Value-driven design by dialogue

aloris guides conversations in four steps. With the card set, you initiate the dialogue, deepen it, and discover together what truly holds value. Even before any decisions are made, direction and insight begin to emerge.

Each set includes a handout that further supports you in applying the method. It provides a deeper explanation of the four steps and offers additional guidance, helping you facilitate conversations with confidence and depth.

In this step, the participant is introduced to the Valoris set. Everyone receives their own set of cards, with the aim of first making personal values visible, which will later be translated into design or purpose.

All 24 cards are laid out face up on the table or held in the hand and quietly reviewed.

Ask an intuitive opening question, for example:
“What are the most important values in your life?”

The participant then explores which cards resonate or evoke something within them.

Creating context

1

Everyone individually selects the six most important values, without any discussion.

From this initial exploration, participants intuitively go through the cards and create a personal ranking: what feels truly important, what feels less important, and what remains as the core.

This step is about individually clarifying priorities and making a conscious selection. In the next step, the choices are shared and discussed.

Individual selection

2

This is where the conversation begins. The selected values are explained and discussed together: why are they important, and which ones hold the highest priority?

Are you working as a pair? Then you bring both sets (12 values) together and reduce them to one shared set of six that is essential for both.

The six values are then organised based on meaning and influence: what forms the foundation, what supports it, and what provides direction?

Sharing & prioritising

3

Here, the structure of values becomes concrete, and together you translate them into the design or objective.

The selected values form the foundation for further decisions: what do they mean for the space, and how are they reflected in everyday use?

In this way, a clear and shared starting point emerges for designing or working towards your goal.

Design with certainty

4

Discover the set

Valoris can be used directly in professional conversations. No training, no subscriptio, just a tool that helps deepen dialogue and create a clear foundation for meaningful decisions.