Blind Consent: notice & click-through-agreements

Here’s a legal journal article, Blind Consent? A Social Psychological Investigation of Non-Readership of Click-Through Agreements, on how users approach Click Through legal agreements, and what kind of changes to the designs of these agreements can increase readership & comprehension. Their abstract: Across two studies we aimed to measure empirically the extent of non-readership of … Read moreBlind Consent: notice & click-through-agreements

TOS Redesign study

The Center for Media Design at Ball State University published a short paper on iTunes Terms of Service Redesign. They used a Savannah design student’s proposed modifications to Apple’s TOS design as a jumping off point to do research as to what design would be successful. Their Research Questions: The purpose of this study was … Read moreTOS Redesign study

Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designers

Visual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designers by Helena Haapio and Stefania Passera on VoxPopulii, Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, May 15, 2013 For decades, words have been lawyers’ tools of trade. Today, we should no longer let tradition force us to think inside the text-only box. Apart from words, there are other … Read moreVisual Law: What Lawyers Need to Learn from Information Designers

Best Practices for Data Visualization

▶ I Like Pretty Graphs: Best Practices for Data Visualization Assignments – YouTube | Program for Legal Technology & Design. The DesignLab from University of Washington has a great (hour long) presentation about how to integrate data visualizations into typically non-data-driven, non-visual classes in a university. It can also be bridged into law school classrooms, … Read moreBest Practices for Data Visualization