michaeldoherty

I think anyone who intentionally uses UX service design methods to address legal issues can call themselves a Legal Designer, and I am interested in Legal Design from both theoretical and practical
perspectives.

I’ve researched, and am in the process of publishing work on,
Legal Design as a nascent academic discipline and on how the anthropological
and sociological constructions of Law and of Design interact. At its heart, the
project is looking at the tensions and innovative opportunities of bringing
design mindsets into legal culture, e.g.

https://www.slideshare.net/MichaelDoherty61/jurix-legal-design-workshop-presentation-december-2018

My main concern over many years as an academic has been on
developing effective teaching and learning methods for my students, and I am
Director of Teaching and Learning at my law school. We are currently using a
range of UX service design methods, such as UX interviews, user personas, a uniform
icon set and journey mapping to completely redesign our undergraduate
curriculum. This will roll out from September 2019.

Legal Design methods also give me, and my students, an
opportunity to work outside of the walls of our law school. I undertook a
project, with a graphic design student, on visualising tenant’s rights directed
at students as tenants in private rental accommodation. We are now developing
design projects with local community advocacy groups who advise vulnerable people
on housing and welfare rights.