介绍

介绍

How effective is a legal system that people cannot understand
how to use? How can we use participatory, creative design methods
in public institutions to serve people better? These questions, 摆出姿势
by guest editors Margaret Hagan and F. Kürşat özenç, are at the
heart of this special issue: The Rise of Legal Design. They are undeni-
ably design questions, involving issues such as usability, capability,
human-centered and service design. In their effort to answer these
问题, contributors to this issue apply the skills, 方法, 和
insights of design theory and practice to promote greater transpar-
ency and accessibility throughout the legal system. A special issue
like this operates on multiple levels. It focuses attention on a sig-
nificant topic and weaves together the threads of earlier work. 作为
这样的, this issue marks an important milestone in the maturation of
significant areas of inquiry. Long-time readers of Design Issues, 为了
例子, will recognize links between the arguments presented
here and previous work published in this journal such as Liesbeth
Huybrechts, Katrien Dreessen, and Ben Hagenaars’s Building
Capabilities Through Democratic Dialogues (卷. 34, 不. 4 秋天
2018), Marc Steen’s Organizing Design-for-Wellbeing Projects: 使用
the Capability Approach (卷. 32, 不. 4 秋天 2016), Ezio Manzini’s
Design Culture and Dialogic Design (卷. 32, 不. 1 冬天 2016), 和
Andy Dong’s The Policy of Design: A Capabilities Approach (卷. 24,
不. 4 秋天 2008). The Rise of Legal Design is a notable step in the
process of building a bridge between communities of expertise both
legal and design. On another level, this issue is an important part of
the effort to promote greater rigor, develop appropriate metrics,
and collect the kind of case studies that can support evidence-based
arguments for legal design and identify best practices. As this spe-
cial issue demonstrates, the design community has much to contrib-
ute to the development of legal design. 同时, 有
ample evidence here that designers have much to learn from their
peers in the legal profession.

Bruce Brown
理查德·布坎南
卡尔·迪萨尔沃
Dennis Doordan
Kipum Lee
拉米亚·马泽

https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_e_00598

© 2020 麻省理工学院
设计问题: 体积 36, 数字 3 夏天 2020

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