Open Law Lab
One of the main points of resistance for lawyers in the design process is getting from talk to action. It’s too easy to start off with best intentions,…
I have been thinking about better ways to integrate the quick-development cycle of the Agile Design Process, and the community-driven spirit of Participatory Design. Here is my initial…
A notebook sketch I made for a class presentation on going from user research to brainstorming. The in-between step: scouting the frustrations — where your stakeholders and target…
I jotted down this small shortlist during a recent conference, when I was sifting through all of the points that I have been making in different venues, for…
This is also an old page from my sketchbook — it must have been from a session at the d.school, and notes I took about how we can…
This school year, my priority is focusing on how to take the design process & adapt it to create research outcomes that are meaningful to the academic community…
As I’ve been writing up my ‘Design for Lawyers’ book & preparing my class presentation — I’ve been forming this venn diagram in my mind. Before, I would…
I am in Design-Workshop season right now, running a whole lot of sessions to introduce people to user-centered design & run through a generative cycle, to come up…
A sketchnote about one of the fundamental parts of the design process: Prototyping to Think. The quicker we start to build, sketch, act out, and otherwise make our…
Here’s a quick-note mindmap that I made while laying out notes for a paper I’m working on, defining what Legal Design is, and how design approaches can serve…
The second phase of the design process is Scoping & Defining a Design Brief. It moves on from the first phase of user research & understanding the status…
How do we brainstorm well in the legal world? I know plenty about what Ideal Brainstorming might look like, from my time at the d.school. But the truth…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Some more props & tools that I’ve been using in system designs. These are good for synthesizing research & notes — and then focusing in on what exactly…
I originally posted this over at the d.school’s Whiteboard.
I posted this originally on the d.school’s Whiteboard blog!
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…
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…
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…
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 &…
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…
