The Legal Design Toolbox is a set of resources for aspiring designers who are approaching legal challenges with a creative, generative, human-centered approach. The toolbox provides you with guides, tools, and examples to help you scope & tackle these challenges with design.
The toolbox is structured by the type of challenge you’re trying to solve. Use the menu to navigate to the challenge area you think best fits the problem you’re tackling.
How to Use This Toolbox
Get Inspired
As you think about building a solution in your legal problem area, consider some existing products & services that could help you model what you’re trying to build.
Get Specific
Once you’ve decided what type of thing you’re building, then look at patterns for how the user will interact with the product and for how to display legal information.
Develop It
After you’ve made a rough plan, then it’s time to get the skills and tools to design how the solution will look and interact, and to develop it into a testable product.
Future Directions
Design also has the potential to help you serve a client or partner in other ways, mind-mapped out below. Future iterations of this toolbox will expand the resources to design for policy-change, design for branding, and system design.
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Thanks for all the work you do. This is a great collection of resources. What design software do you use to design your infographics and sketches? I love how they look and I’d like to create some for my own practice.
I use Concepts on the iPad Pro. In the past I used Procreate. I use Sketch on my Macbook. Happy to talk more, I love to geek out over drawing and creating!
Love the toolbox, still going over all of the great resources.
Have you considered adding Realtime board to the list? It’s a great collaboration tool. Have been using it for a while now.
It’s basically and endless whiteboard canvas with a lot of great integrations like “iconfinder, sketch, wireframes, google drive etc.”
Great for ideation, mindmapping, prototyping. service maps, information architecture, design research deliverables, etc”
Hi Margaret,
I found your site while searching for Canva’s screenshots. I haven’t seen any site with such toolbox before, but found here some interesting pieces of information about design I haven’t been taught at school. The design pattern library rocks, I wish I found your site earlier 🙂
Hi, I just discovered this awesome resource but a lot of the links seem to be broken! 🙁 Would love to get access to some of the resources if they still exist
Hi – a lot of the links are broken, including all of the main toolbar links: “Legal Design Pattern Library”, “Create an Innovative Organization”, “Idea Book”, the sub-links under “Develop a new product” and “Legal Product Typology”. Is this resource being maintained?
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Hi Margaret,
Thanks for all the work you do. This is a great collection of resources. What design software do you use to design your infographics and sketches? I love how they look and I’d like to create some for my own practice.
I use Concepts on the iPad Pro. In the past I used Procreate. I use Sketch on my Macbook. Happy to talk more, I love to geek out over drawing and creating!
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Hi Margaret,
Love the toolbox, still going over all of the great resources.
Have you considered adding Realtime board to the list? It’s a great collaboration tool. Have been using it for a while now.
It’s basically and endless whiteboard canvas with a lot of great integrations like “iconfinder, sketch, wireframes, google drive etc.”
Great for ideation, mindmapping, prototyping. service maps, information architecture, design research deliverables, etc”
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Hi Margaret,
I found your site while searching for Canva’s screenshots. I haven’t seen any site with such toolbox before, but found here some interesting pieces of information about design I haven’t been taught at school. The design pattern library rocks, I wish I found your site earlier 🙂
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Hi, I just discovered this awesome resource but a lot of the links seem to be broken! 🙁 Would love to get access to some of the resources if they still exist
Hi! There was some broken code that is fixed now. Sorry about that!
Hi – a lot of the links are broken, including all of the main toolbar links: “Legal Design Pattern Library”, “Create an Innovative Organization”, “Idea Book”, the sub-links under “Develop a new product” and “Legal Product Typology”. Is this resource being maintained?
Hi! It seems there was a part of the code that was broken. Hopefully it’s all fixed now.