A total of 24 Law students from the Esade Law School and the EID design school in Barcelona met last weekend at the Fusion Point in Esade's Rambla of Innovations in Sant Cugat, during the Legal Design Jam hackathon. A ground-breaking educational experience on a global level, which brings together students of Law and Business Management from Esade and from the European Institute of Design (EID) in a session that connects the legal sector with design and business. The aim is to help future lawyers bring traditional law closer to users through Design Thinking techniques.

The challenge? To show that legal documents can be user-friendly, simple and visual. Consumers, citizens and commercial partners all need to access easily understandable, attractive legal information. The students were organised into multidisciplinary teams and, with the help of designers from EID, they worked for two days non-stop to come up with the best solution for improving the understanding and readability of legal documentation related with the contracting of a Insured Pension Plan from the company Alter Mutua: a savings plan designed for the retirement of all lawyers and their families.

By pooling their knowledge on law and their experiences in design, with the technical tools offered by the Esade Fusion Point, each team developed a functional prototype based on redesigning a legal notice, improving the visual appearance, the structure of the document in terms of wording, simplifying the language and focusing on the user needs.

The students from the Master's in International Law, from the Master IP+IT at Esade Law School and from the Graphic Design Undergraduate Degree at the EID, accompanied by teachers from both schools, and by Stefanía Passera, Creator of the concept of the Legal Design Jam and expert in Design Thinking at Helsinki University Legal Tech Lab, presented their proposals for improvement to the insurance company.