Open Law Lab
A quick talking head sketch of a ‘What-If’ for legal design. What if we started over with our legal systems? Instead of patching over the problems with better…
Here is a sketchnote I drafted for a general audience, to explain the value of taking a design approach to solving a problem. The term ‘wicked problems’ comes…
I got a comment on an earlier post on Legal Health checkups, from Kristina Brousalis who works at CLEO, a public legal education and information organization in Toronto,…
As I’ve been writing up a paper on new legal tools & an agenda for access to justice innovation — I keep coming back to the same point.…
These sketches date back a few years, when I was working on online privacy mechanisms. I put them here as provocations, and inspiration.
I drew this note a few months ago, when I was still a fellow at Stanford’s d.school — and thinking a lot about how we as lawyers can…
Communication professor Lien Tran of the Univ. of Miami has developed an offline game for users of the US immigration system — called Toma el Paso, or Make …
This is a sketchnote that I’ve drawn out while at different Access to Justice meetings, talks, and roundtables — where the discussions have been about how to get…
Here is another sketchnote I made during a health care hackathon at Stanford Medical School, that focused on how to engage patients in their own medical care. Many…
This past weekend, I attended a health-care hackathon at Stanford, with the aim to increase Patient Engagement with their own care. I was on the hunt for analogies…
Here’s a quick concept design sketch I had made my last year of law school, about how Improv-based education could be integrated into a legal education. At Stanford…
As I’ve been writing up my design process, I’ve been creating some more tools and templates. Here is one for the ‘scoping’ and ‘understanding’ part of design work:…
In response to the surge of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children coming into the US over the past year, a group has come together in Maryland to produce a social…
Law professors Neal Feigenson and Christina Spiesel published the book Law on Display in 2011. They make the argument that visuals are becoming increasingly powerful in legal courtrooms:…
On his blog “the [non]billable hour”, legal consultant Matt Homann challenged law firms to design a more readable, engaging, client-centered bill for legal services. If your clients designed…
Over on Cornell’s VoxPopulii Blog, I just posted up a comprehensive write-up on a Legal Communication Design pop-up-class that I had taught with Kursat Ozenc & Alex Gavis…
The State of California has a Pleading Bank that can be used by a licensed attorney to find sample, guiding documents to expedite her work. It links back…
A very simple illustration, made for one of my recent presentations explaining what design is to lawyers, and how it could be useful to their work.
Here’s another example of visual explanations of law. Here it is the 2008 book Bound by Law?: Tales from the Public Domain, with Intellectual Property Law visualized in comic…
Here is a visual I made for the Canadian Bar Association, to illustrate the main takeaways of their new Legal Futures report. And then a version in French…
Earlier this month, I attended an open Design Lunch at Autodesk in downtown SF. Chris Noessel, a designer at the Cooper design firm, presented on the topic: How…
What would a Github for Law look like? And is it worth building? This afternoon I got an email from a site visitor who asked if I knew…
I’m working on a project right now to bring court reminder messaging systems into some California courts. I’ve been reaching out to different open-source platforms that offer text-messaging…
Law Comics is a Tumblr blog that features a handful of illustrated explainers of law — to start with, patents. These first comics are authored by Julia Powles…
ZoningCheck is a legal web app to help business owners navigate zoning regulations. It’s a winner of one of the grants from the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge from…
Among the many camps of ideas for how to increase access to justice, one of the strongest I keep returning to is Devolved Legal Services. What I mean…
The New York Times profiled the start-up Roompact yesterday, framing it as a roommate dispute tool. It also is a legal product — it’s a platform for two…
Project Nanny Van is an excellent new example of creative legal service design. Dan Jackson from Northeastern Law’s NuLawLab clued me in about it. The NuLawLab & its…
Here is a visual I made for some of the recent workshops I’ve been running on Legal Design. As I present the concept of ‘design’ to a roomful…
I was excited to see a concept design for a Parking Sign featured in Wired Magazine– that would communicate a legal warning/penalty quite clearly to the people who…
Kanan Dhru of the Research Foundation for Governance: in India (RFGI) think tank reached out to me, sharing her Lawtoons project — as well as a more general…
From WeHave the Future, in Veneto region of Northern Italy
Carnegie Mellon’s CUPS group, who works on making usable privacy projects for normal people, has just launched a new project. They have published a collection of banks’ privacy…
Originally posted on the d.school’s Whiteboard: Over this past fellowship year, I’ve run so many workshops and pop-up classes on how to make law more engaging and usable…
One branch of Legal Design Ideas I’m working on is using crowdsourced information to improve transparency of how legal regulations are implemented & processes are carried out. An…
Here is a workbook I’ve made, for use in the Legal Design Workshops I’ve run with lawyers, law students, and others. This challenge was crafted for experienced lawyers,…
Here’s a visual for non-lawyers to enter information for a professional to later use in their legal case, and also to understand if they are eligible for DACA.…
David Johnson of New York Law School pointed me to Argz, a platform currently in development (and with Beta Release) to create a puzzle-game out of logic &…
