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Legal design explained
Merging legal and design knowledge is the key to develop better products and improve user’s experience
Design applied to the law and lawyers’ activity is having a moment. Legal experts understand that they need to offer something new and exciting to clients. Customers and businesses often are frustrated when confronted with texts in legalese that pave the way to loopholes, confusion and litigation.
Basically, the legal world needs help from design. Margaret Hagan, in her book “Law by Design”, advocates for a design-driven approach to legal innovation, with focus on inventing, testing and building systems that serve the agency of people involved in them.
Simply stated, legal design is a set of tools aimed to design better products and to better communicate legal information to users and stakeholders. Hagan’s definition of legal design goes is consistent with our description: “legal design is the application of human-centered design to the world of law, to make legal systems and services more human-centered, usable, and satisfying”.
Legal design is a set of tools aimed to design better products and to better communicate legal information to users and stakeholders
