Legal Design

INFORMATION DESIGN
EXPLORATION
About
This project was an experimental project created at Become™ (formerly Frozen Iris) . My role within this project was to ideate and create explanatory visuals and design systems.
Project Type
Information Design
Impact
Cut contract drafting time from 2 months to 2 weeks.
Sector
Legal Service
Year
2022
Outcome
Revamped legal contract. Resulted in cutting drafting time from 2 months to 2 weeks, ensuring clear understanding of terms for all stakeholders . Minimized lawyer involvement and enhanced transparency.
Why I liked this Project
This was my first design project in the legal space and having constraints of not comprising legal language at the expense of design made it both challenging and exciting.
Explorations
We explored various tones, from relaxed and fun to direct but simple, to convey the same legal message.
Approach
We brought a unique perspective to law where we combined design principles, human behaviour, and affordance theory with legal knowledge to make the law more human-centric. Keeping the end-user in mind, we created frameworks that have aided in increasing the lucidity of contracts and has reduced the turnaround time.
The final Contract had a system of colours, graphics, visual hierarchy and simplified messaging to convey the legal information. With an emphasis on creating a contract a positive experience of two parties coming together, the tone used in messaging was a preventative one instead of a defensive one.
Result
The improved contract showed a lot of benefits. It reduced time taken to draft contracts from 2 months to 2 weeks. It was easier to consume and fully comprehend and hence ensured in a better trust between parties. It also reduced the involvement of lawyers.
Finally, it also reduced the turn-around-time and closure period significantly as the contracts quickly moved from a compliance metric to a real conversation.
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Credits
Harish Venkatesh
Founder & CEO

Become™
Ann Mathew
Project Manager
Reed in Partnership
Indhukanth L
Director, Design & Research
Become™
Aditya S
Assitant Manager
Khaitan & Co

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