Boston Legal Design Meetup
In September, there will be a meet-up in Boston for those interested in how design thinking may apply to law. I hope there can be a bicoastal connection…
Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
In September, there will be a meet-up in Boston for those interested in how design thinking may apply to law. I hope there can be a bicoastal connection…
User experience design is a necessity for all things law. Legal professionals, legal educators, legal technologists, they all need to define who their core ‘User’ is. It doesn’t…
I found this video from the company Powtoon on why visual presentations are more effective in communication. Use Less Text, People don’t like to read Pictures are superior…
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.…
Here is a sketch-note-drawing I made back in Summer 2011, at a design conference at Milan Politecnic, by Ezio Manzini. Everyone is a Designer! But how can we…
Here is one recent example of a Design Process model. It’s ostensibly for ‘Information Design’ — but could be for ‘Document Design’ writ more broadly. Like other Design…
One more note on how to design!
Another sketch about how to move the design process along…
A small illustration of a truism that is floating around, in answer to the title question.
Some of the questions that are at the heart of my thoughts lately…
Employment law firm Seyfarth Shaw has adapted the business process of Six Sigma into the law firm, and law-client, setting, while also mixing it in with Lean methodology. …
At this young stage of legal design, the best thing to offer lawyers who want to offer better, excellent products to their clients is a guidebook. What I…
The SikhCoalition has put together an ingenious app out to crowdsource reports of discrimination at airports and on airlines. If the government and companies won’t release information about…
Design is not just color choice or logo composition. It is the way a product is composed, that structures how a user interacts with the product what the…
For those legal people who want to be more conversant while talking with developers, this infographic offers a great grounding, to be able to speak with possible CTOs…
A quick sketch of a concept for wearable law… Of course fictional now, but only slightly tongue-in-cheek…
Having gone through 3 Hackathons in the past 2 months, I’m a little shocked about how little clarity there is about IP or legal grounding. It’s good to…
I have been working on some quick sketches on what the design process is good for — and how to actually do it. Here is note 1 —…
I have been doing some readings to try to put together some frameworks that would teach non-designers what ‘design’ actually is. I came across the book How Designers…
This is a chart from a general discussion of how new trends in tech are adopted — but I have got to imagine it is quite different in…
Law students are known to complain a little about law school, but I’d like to capitalize on the complaints — they are essentially user needs ripe for research.…
Georgetown Law is holding its 2nd ‘Iron Tech’ Lawyer competition, in which students who took a semester seminar –“Technology, Innovation & Law Practice: An Experiential Seminar” — by…
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 started typing out a 3 page email reply to a colleague who wants to figure out how to build a website for a legal project she &…
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…
This excellent graphic from Jesse James Garrett should provide a fundamental basis for law-people to orient themselves in the world of User Experience design. Many interwoven tasks go…
I have heard from a few people that they want an Angie’s List for Lawyers — a service they are willing to pay for, to get quality, real,…
An article from Josh Kubicki, with advice customized for lawyers & law students on how to pitch their business idea. Startup Pitching for Lawyers & Law Students February…
Here’s an article by Jennifer Smith in the Wall Street Journal on new crops of apps that help clients find and monitor lawyers. It mentions Viewabill (tracking how…
More wonderful insights into how citizens called to be jurors experience the court system in the UK — from the RED project, by the Design Council —read more,…
Great, rich, human insights into how citizens called to be jurors experience the court system in the UK — from the RED project, by the Design Council —read…
Great, rich user insights about Citizenship and people’s relationships with the government, from the Red – Touching the State project http://www.designcouncil.info/mt/RED/citizenship/
RED was a UK initiative that was operational between 2004 and 2006. It was set up by the Design Council in the UK, to tackle public policy, social,…
A USDOJ report on Law Schools’ Access to Justice programs:meaning, what pro bono & public service offerings the schools have. The report allows schools to present what offerings…
Canada — in particular British Columbia — has been the leading light in using online tools for providing dispute resolution to citizens. They have found most success in…
A blog post from Richard Zorza’s rich blog on Access to Justice discusses an issue I am currently working on — whether the Internet is a usable and…
A great article from Slate on Tech being used for Legal Aid & Access to Justice, with lots of specific examples of how SMS and other basic tech…
CanLii is an app out of Toronto that allows for easier searching of Canadian law. It’s an effort to make the legislation more accessible, and hoping that trickles…
