Workshops Legal Design for a Dutch bank

Workshop series legal design and visual skills for Lawyers

the brief

The second-largest Dutch Bank asked us to design a tailored legal design workshop, initiated by the Innovation group of its Legal Department.

the goal

We set out to develop a legal design workshop focused on legal professionals in a financial institution. The goal was to teach the participants the methods and mindset of legal design and the basics of visual skills for lawyers.

the process

The 40 participants from different divisions of the Legal department learned the basics of the legal design methodology and mindset and discussed real legal information design projects. And they practised basic visual skills: how to structure information, make a layout and use visual resources. After each of the 5 workshops, we gathered feedback and made iterations to the workshops, each time making them more tailor-made to the needs of the bank’s Legal Department. This is a design process in action: using actual, real-time feedback and iterating a service to fulfil users’ needs.

the result

The participants were introduced to legal design, practices with empathy for users, visual skills, and learned about visual tools. The feedback was positive and many participants were inspired to explore the possibilities of legal design within their roles.

“Great to look at legal documents in a different way. I’m going to try to apply that in my work. I found it a very useful workshop. I think it would be good for other colleagues as well to create awareness about the possibilities of visual aids.” – Legal Counsel, Innovation Group of the Legal Department, second-largest Dutch bank

What our client says about this project

“What surprised me was the overwhelming interest from our colleagues: the first two sessions were fully booked within the hour! By combining the presentation with short exercises that you can apply in your daily work, the workshop was not only fun, but also very practical. Time flew by in every session! Anna cleverly responded to the feedback we received on the workshops and always managed to add surprising new elements.”

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