8 Ideas for Better Court wayfinding
For the court user testing I am working on at the Legal Design Lab, we have been testing different ideas to make court process more navigable — getting…
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For the court user testing I am working on at the Legal Design Lab, we have been testing different ideas to make court process more navigable — getting…
This past weekend, I spent two very gloriously sunny days in Santa Barbara’s College of Law, in windowless rooms, planning what a better way to educate future lawyers…
The Business Development Bank of Canada has an online simulation game that’s meant for training in Intellectual Property as applied to entrepreneurs. It’s not necessarily built to train lawyers,…
This post was originally published over on Stanford Legal Design Lab’s Medium publication, Legal Design and Innovation. Enjoy! Out of all the workshops, design cycles, and product development…
I am working with a team at Carnegie Mellon to create more Usable Privacy Policies. One of the main deliverables we’re creating is a plugin for web browsers,…
A sketchnote of the start of a talk from Stephanie Kimbro, speaking at Univ. of South Carolina Law School about her research on how games & gamification mechanics…
Last week, I was a facilitator at a Shaping Davos design thinking workshop at Stanford’s d.school. Several local non-profits had brought some big social impact challenges they’re facing…
CALI, or the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, created an online law game Time Trial. The game teaches the player legal history, by having them try to place…
I have been writing up my findings from a recent research study I did, on how lay people use the Internet to respond to legal problems that crop…
Another fun little lightweight law game — this time from Koding Global Virtual Hackathon in December 2014. It’s called the TOS Game — it’s more of a live…
I am on the hunt for law games that are rich, fun, and adaptable to many different ways of learning/practicing law. After I started developing my game Law…
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 …
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…
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 &…
Many of my d.school Estate Plan redesign class groups are thinking about how to gamify estate planning — bringing some elements of game experience, like points, rewards, competition,…
Stephanie Kimbro has posted on YouTube a preview of the legal game Estate Quest she & her team are designing, all on Estate Planning for consumers. Her summary:…
At the Fwd.Us DREAMer hackathon last week, I was tremendously impressed with the team who made #Undoculife. It’s a web-based interactive game, featuring a main character who’s an…
Ida Benedetto talks with the Open Law Lab about how she helps people understand issues of consequence through a combination of play and surprise. As a founder of…
I started programming law games in Summer 2012, when I went from just thinking about my idea of “Law Dojo” and making it real. Since then, I’ve gotten…
Thanks to Nikki for writing in to let me know about Antidote Games, a studio that produces complex interactive games, to build understanding & knowledge among the players.…
Demetri Martin went to NYU Law before dropping out in his 2nd year, then going on to stand-up comedy, writing books, and his own show on Comedy Central.…
I just came across the company TrueOffice that is putting together (inspiring!) games for businesses to train their employees on ‘compliance’ issues. Think sexual harassment, information security, or…
I went to InfoCamp today at Berkeley with the intention of soaking up best practices and inventive ideas from User Experience Designers and Information Junkies at the School…
I am trying to compile some best practices of dispute resolution mechanisms inside refugee communities. I’ve found some good leads, including this write-up of design interventions in a…
I have recently begun to play around with coding apps, and for my first real venture, I decided to code up a quiz app with all the things…