Visualizing Laws for Clarity and Transparency with Mel Flanagan

Visualizing laws for clarity and transparency is a powerful way to transform complex processes and requirements into roadmaps users are able to follow and navigate. Mel Flanagan from Nook Studios joined me to discuss visualization and pathways to create audience-centric tools that make the law accessible and transparent for everyday users. Legislation, regulation, and government processes are overwhelming, and visualization makes understanding legal requirements easier, clearer, and straightforward. 

Watch now and learn how visualizing laws allows everyday audiences to understand the legal environment. 

Key moments are listed below.

0:00 Welcome and introduction.

8:17 Legal design and visualization for clarity and transparency.

10:46 Visual design and open government.

20:37 Case study and a live example of visualizing law in action.

45:49 Current visualization projects.

Mel Flanagan is an information designer and founder of Nook Studios, a social enterprise and company of researchers, artists, illustrators, designers, strategists, and creative civic technologists based in Sydney, Australia. Mel makes digital collaboration and audience-centric tools that make information and laws accessible to community audiences.

Nook designs revolutionary data, content, and location services and products. Nook’s mission is to simply explain, illustrate, visualize, and connect data and complex information such as laws, legislation, regulations, and decision-making processes to make them easier to understand and accessible for multiple audiences to follow, analyze, and contribute to improving them.

Connect with Mel Flanagan on LinkedIn.

Legal Design IRL. Episode 61

I’m Hannele Korhonen, founder of Lawyers Design School, Contract Design School, and a live interview series called Legal Design IRL. I aim to support legal professionals on their journey toward more user-centered lawyering. 

Each week on IRL, I chat with innovators, pioneering change in the legal profession by reimagining legal services through design-led solutions, bringing clarity and understanding to complex legal matters, and building a more client-centric legal experience. It’s a refreshing opportunity to pause and reflect on your practice, gain fresh perspectives on serving clients better, and connect with a supportive community of like-minded professionals.

The workshops and courses we offer in the schools allow lawyers and other professionals to develop user-centered skills and mindsets, understand and address client needs effectively, and implement design-led approaches at their own pace. 

Together, we can create a legal system that is more user-centered, empathetic, and accessible to all.

If you enjoyed the talk, join me Live every Wednesday at 8 a.m. ET on LinkedIn. The chat is open.

Learn more about  Legal Design and Contract Design and how they can transform your work and career in the law. Courses are open now.

You can catch a replay of episode 61, Legal Design Thinking: IRL, or join me live next week and ask questions. 

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