Here you can find examples of legal visual design, as well as other complex or rule-based visual design. Use this for inspiration, testing, and thinking outside the box!
You can also find lots more legal visuals at our sister site Visual Law Library.
Policy Design examples
What are better ways to display privacy policies, terms and conditions, and other ‘fine print’ to get rules and policies across?
- How to Make Privacy Policies both GDPR-Compliant and Usable by Karen Renaud and Lynsay Shephered
A 2018 piece describes some new strategies, using usability-oriented design, to present privacy policies in better ways. Its basic design pattern is a summary table, with icons and some call-out boxes … Read moreHow to Make Privacy Policies both GDPR-Compliant and Usable by Karen Renaud and Lynsay Shephered - Grocery Store terms of service redesign
The Simplification Centre has a ‘Simple Action’ report on how to present better Terms of Service through a visual redesign, with an example from UK grocery chain Tesco. - Redesigned rental agreement for landlords-tenants from the Simplification Centre
Another project from the Simplification Centre is a redesign of a UK rental agreement — a contract between a landlord and tenant. Their redesign features more task-based layout, clearer tables of who … Read moreRedesigned rental agreement for landlords-tenants from the Simplification Centre - Juro’s privacy policy communication
The UK legal startup Juro, which works on improving contracts, has a new design for its privacy communication to its users. Their team has been investing in better privacy policy design, … Read moreJuro’s privacy policy communication - Tunnel Bear: privacy policy with visuals, diagrams, and examples
The website Tunnel Bear recommends to its users that it hasA Privacy Policy You Can Actually Understand. It is a VPN tool, that allows for mobile, private connections to the internet. … Read moreTunnel Bear: privacy policy with visuals, diagrams, and examples - YouTube’s terms of service through a jargon-free video explainer
In true YouTube style, a YouTube user has made a straightforward, image-rich explainer video of what the legal document says. It was made by Emily Murphy for a course, and provides … Read moreYouTube’s terms of service through a jargon-free video explainer - Apple TOS redesigned: a concept proposal
Savannah College of Art and Design graduate Gregg Bernstein has a revised version of Apple’s Terms of Service, which improves upon the layout while still keeping the traditional look and the … Read moreApple TOS redesigned: a concept proposal - Financial Privacy Notice for print
Another design from US regulators, this time for print-based notices about financial companies’ privacy policies for customers’ data. This was also led by the Kleimann Group. - Mortgage details and explainers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has an array of designs to help people understand their mortgage deals. - Online Financial Privacy Notice from US regulators
US regulators decided to set a standard for how financial companies can present their privacy information to users. They went through a lengthy design process to create this ideal design. - Parking Schedule design
A mock up of a better kind of Parking Schedule design from a designer in LA. - Music video airline disclosure, safety dance on Virgin
This was Virgin Airline’s mandated disclosure, as done as a music video, that I saw on a recent flight to LA. And Behind the Scenes of the video: — From a … Read moreMusic video airline disclosure, safety dance on Virgin - Privacyville: Privacy Policy as game for Zynga
Zynga has a game-based privacy policy, PrivacyVille, in which each of the practices is located on a different part of their game town image. You have to click each part of … Read morePrivacyville: Privacy Policy as game for Zynga - Aza Raskin’s privacy redesign project
The designer Aza Raskin tackled the design of privacy notifications & policies several years ago. His blog details his (and his co-designers’ and experts’) process to try to make more readable … Read moreAza Raskin’s privacy redesign project - Codepen’s Privacy Policy
Codepen has a new privacy policy model, in which it lays out all the terms in a two-column table. On the left hand side is the legalese, and then on the … Read moreCodepen’s Privacy Policy - Privicons project
The Background of the Privicons Project gives a wonderfully resourced summary of their privacy design project. The Project’s Development Recently there have been numerous approaches for simplifying privacy policies by the … Read morePrivicons project - Legal Design Jam takes on Twitter’s privacy policy @ KU Leuven: Report |
LDJ on privacy @ KU Leuven: Report Posted on November 27, 2014 by Stefania Passera In this Jam we brought together designers and legal researchers interested in privacy to reimagine together … Read moreLegal Design Jam takes on Twitter’s privacy policy @ KU Leuven: Report | - A Redesigned Parking Sign So Simple That You’ll Never Get TowedHere is a piece on notice design, A Redesigned Parking Sign So Simple That You’ll Never Get Towed | from Wired Magazine. It’s by Liz Stinson, from 07.15.14 Your car gets towed, … Read moreA Redesigned Parking Sign So Simple That You’ll Never Get Towed
- Microsoft Privacy changes email
This came as an email from Microsoft to its users, as an update of its Terms of Service & Privacy Policies. - No Smoking Sign in China
- Parking sign in Palo Alto
- Bikes on Caltrain rules
A text-based visual on the window of a commuter train, to convey what the rules & restrictions are for people who bring a bike onto the train. - Food regulations guide
A visual navigator from CUP, for Vendors: Did you know you can get a $1,000 ticket for parking more than 18 inches from the curb? When you’re earning an average of … Read moreFood regulations guide - Language Rights are Civil Rights infographic posters
Another great project from CUP, the Center for Urban Pedagogy, this time on language rights: The Project Description: If you don’t speak English in NYC and you’re trying to access government … Read moreLanguage Rights are Civil Rights infographic posters - Housing Court navigator
Another amazing infographic guide for a non-expert to navigate Housing Law, from the CUP team. Their project description: Your faucet is leaking, there’s mold in the bathroom, and your landlord is … Read moreHousing Court navigator - Housing Court Help
From CUP’s amazing design/public service operations: Their project: Housing Court Help Many tenants in NYC’s hectic housing courts don’t know that they have the right to ask for realistic terms for … Read moreHousing Court Help - Airline terms of service
From Cynthia Lee: For a sample of bad text design, the incidental charges airlines create for customers, who travel internationally, are especially convoluted and annoyingly complex, especially involving luggage fees. Here … Read moreAirline terms of service - Phone Tracking Disclosure
- Personal Info Disclosures
- How to obtain a motorcycle licence in the UK flowchart
How to obtain a motorcycle licence in the UK – TDL | London. - Privacy Policy Chart
This is from a CUPS publication out of Carnegie Mellon Unviersity. Privacy Policy Chart | Program for Legal Technology & Design. - ITunes TOS Redesign
via Rethinking the design of the ‘terms of service’ agreement – SmartPlanet. Rethinking the design of the ‘terms of service’ agreement By Andrew Nusca Design student Gregg Bernstein looks at the … Read moreITunes TOS Redesign - Tax Form self-assessment designs
Here is a short article about tax forms — that includes discussion of how not only forms can be laid out better, but how legal & financial terminology can be presented … Read moreTax Form self-assessment designs - Berkeley No Smoking Sign
- Drive Like Your Kids Live Here sign
People That Ignore School Zone Signs Behave Badly « KRON4. - 7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls
A computer game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to a clause in the terms and conditions agreed to by online shoppers. The … Read more7,500 Online Shoppers Unknowingly Sold Their Souls
Other Legal examples
If you are trying to show how a legal process works, or how to be strategic about the law, how can you show this through visuals?
The Simplification Centre has a redesigned traffic ticket -- a speeding notice that would come in ...
Another project from the Simplification Centre is a redesign of a UK rental agreement -- a ...
The design group Civilla, in Michigan, has a new legal/government benefits document design, under the ...
Google has a Security Checkup that alerts users, while they are going about use of other applications, ...
The project Terminos y Condiciones from Mallorca Spain is experimenting with new ways to help ...
On his blog “the [non]billable hour”, legal consultant Matt Homann challenged law firms to design ...
Facebook instituted some privacy checkups using a Blue Dinosaur as the mascot. The dinosaur asked ...
Here is a table design from Carnegie Mellon's Bank Privacy site. It provides a table ...
A Nutrition Label for Privacy is an academic study by Patrick Kelley, Joanna Bresee, Lorrie ...
A booklet from CUP on "I Got Arrested! Now What?":
This issue of Making Policy Public ...
Again from the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a foldout pamphlet poster aimed at tenants in ...
From Jay Mitchell, clinical professor at Stanford Law School, & his paper on Putting Some ...
Non-Legal examples
What can we learn from outside the world of law, to inspire better legal designs?
The Simplification Centre has a group of volunteer designers who do 'Simple Actions' to rehabilitate an ...
The Moscow Project is another visual storytelling project to show events and policies' relationships. It is ...
The Center for American Progress has a policy-tracking/visualization too, Law of the Land Project. It offers an ...
This visualization web app from the Urban Institute has a very interesting, complicated design to ...
A decision-making flowchart from Wendy McNaughton
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This is the dashboard and center console of the Tesla Model X. It is ...
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It attempts to draw a tree structure showing ...
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This is the dashboard of a Ford Fusion hybrid. Most of the controls have ...
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It is a product user manual of Fitbit Flex on their product website. Last ...
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