Contents

Preface

1The First Dialogue on A Virtuous Method

Instruments and consequences

Adventures and assurances

Competences and virtues

Agendas and maxims

Internal good of design

Notes

2The Second Dialogue on Quality of Use or Life

User with a multiple personality

Anti-usability

Neighbor-centered design

Worth of use

Imagining a practice

Impartially opinionated

Notes

3The Third Dialogue on Applicability

Ignored use

Conviction-critical use

Justified exclusion

Tolerance for emergence

From usability to applicability

Notes

4The Fourth Dialogue on Utilitarian User Experience

Bentham today

Pleasure and pain

Against utility

User exertion

A word with two meanings

Notes

5The Fifth Dialogue on Articulating Justice in Design

Conductors of justice

Division of labor to ensure justice

Flourishing hybrids

Compromising wellbeing

Trading in human dignity

Notes

6The Sixth Dialogue on Being in A Transitional Position

Controversies and moderations

Design as a contract

Notes

Bibliography

Index