Open Law Laba blog by Margaret Hagan
Open Law Lab
I posted this originally on the d.school’s Whiteboard blog!
I drew this for my Stanford Design School fellowship, to be featured on the school’s site The Whiteboard. I hope it can be of use to anyone who…
I have been thinking about how to bring other people on board, to my driving mission of getting new, innovative & human-centered legal projects rolled out. One of…
One of my current projects is assembling together a Legal Design toolbox for legal professionals to integrate design into their practice. A cluster of these tools are those…
A sketchnote from late September…
In 1994, Richard Zorza and Judge Robert Keating published a paper full of insights from their attempt to redesign the interfaces that judges & court officials used when…
Charles Owen has been a professor of design at the Illinois Institute of Design for several decades. In an excellent 2006 article in Design Research Quarterly that discussed…
My quick sketchnote from a team session witj Stanford d.school’s resident therapist, the d.shrink. How to make sure a team works in sync, to maximum potential? How to…
By Mike Rohde, its an excellent primer and portfolio of drawn notes and low fidelity information design. Buy this, use this!
A nice graphic look at areas of design, from Stefanie di Russo.
I stumbled across this *terrific* sum-up of how ‘Design Thinking’ came to be over the past few decades, from Swiburne Univesrity School of Design PhD candidate Stefanie Di…
In the hunt for good resources to build Design Skills, I came across this website and upcoming book for building Visual Design skills: Design Ideas: A Field Guide…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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,…
