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"Remember to maintain objectivity when analyzing your data and be prepared for findings you had not anticipated." (p. 127, The Legal Design Book)

"By holding your tongue and keeping your ideas to yourself for fear of embarrassment, you are doing yourself, your team and your organization a disservice." (p. 136, The Legal Design Book

“Collected objects from personal inventories reveal much about significance of participant owned objects, but may rely on the designer to extract insight about the user…” (p. 131 100 ways…Personal Inventories)

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Quote 1:

"Not so experienced legal designers tend to return to their assumptions much too quickly and to use them as a basis for further considerations instead of deriving real insights. We cannot stress enough that you have to be particularly careful here. It is indeed a skill to extract the right conclusion from the existing data. The art, therefore, is to identify the situational context, the possible limitations, obstacles and frictions, and to generate the right insights."

P. 127 of The Legal Design Book (Bold added for emphasis)

Quote 2:

"While divergent thinking is about opening yourself up to all thinkable and unthinkable combinations, wild imaginations, and finding a creative flow that does not limit your fantasy, convergent thinking is quite the opposite. [...] The art of convergent thinking is not to get rid of all the wild ideas you had before, but to narrow them down while at the same time maintaining ideas that have a sufficient element of novelty or innovative quality"

p.133 of The Legal Design Book

Quote 3:

"We believe that by speculating more, at all levels of society, and exploring alternative scenarios, reality will become more malleable and, although the future cannot be predicted, we can help set in place today factors that will increase the probability of more desirable futures happening." p.6 Speculative Everything

Quote 4:

"Everything we encounter in our world that has been created by people in this world is the
product of a design process of some kind." P. 55 Dignifying Design in Law

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The Legal Design Book

"Like heartbeats and breathing, creative thinking has a natural and unconscious rhythm of its own. It expands and contracts: we instinctively open up the possibilities before we narrow our choices." (pg. 133).

"Be mindful of crafting an environment in which you are open to sharing your ideas, open to receiving other people's ideas and open to assessing ideas collectively and constructively." (pg. 136).

Speculative Everything

"Conceptual designs are not only ideas but also ideals, and as the moral philosopher Susan Neiman has pointed out, we should measure reality against ideals, not the other way around: 'Ideals are not measured by whether they confirm to reality; reality is judged by whether it lives up to ideals. Reason's task is to deny that the claims of experience are final-and to push us to widen the horizon of our experience by providing ideas that experience ought to obey.'" (pg. 12).

100 Ways

"Whereas anthropologists may immerse themselves as participants in a context or culture for extended periods of time, design researchers will typically have a more time-limited engagement." (pg. 284).

Dignifying Design in Law

"Law in concept and in practice is a human invention. And what humans invent can be rejected, re-invented, and refined." (pg. 47).

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The Legal Design Book:

Pg. 132: “The term “ideation” is one that is not particularly accepted or liked by legal professionals. Based on our extensive field work, we have found that the word “ideate” does not resonate with them, thereby contributing to increased friction in the acceptance of design as a process within a global legal team.”

Pg. 136: “During the idea development process, feasibility does not matter. Your ideas can range from simple to extremely wild and complex.”

Speculative Everything:

Pg. 12: “Conceptual designs are not only ideas but also ideals, and as the moral philosopher Susan Neiman has pointed out, we should measure reality against ideals, and not the other way around: ‘Ideals are not measured by whether they conform to reality; reality is judged by whether it lives up to the ideals. Reason’s task is to deny that the claims of experience are final—and to push us to widen the horizon of our experience by providing that experience ought to obey.’”

Universal Methods of Design:

Pg. 124: “Marginal participants blend into an environment as natural observers of an activity or event. . . Full participants become complete members of a group, subculture, or culture, in extreme cases through infiltration or a covert role. This is not a typical role adopted by design researchers because of ethical considerations.”

Dignifying Design in the Law:

Pg. 53: “By defining law as a design activity, [Roberto] Unger provided a novel lens to view the law not just as rules and regulations, but as a product of human imagination and creativity.”

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from Legal Design Book

• “With the POV technique, you can check the knowledge you have gained through research and compare it with the assumptions you made at the beginning of the task. This helps you to see what problem actually needs to be addressed and to formulate it using the POV technique.” Pg. 129

• “Lawyers are conditioned to seek the expected ‘right’ answers, which is definitely necessary when it comes to providing quality legal advice. This is convergent thinking: using facts to go straight to a solution. But convergent thinking doesn’t generate any new ideas; nor does it inspire people to do so – something that is essential for any organization that seeks to have a truly innovative culture and develop innovative solutions.” Pg. 134

2 from Speculative Everything

• “Conceptual designs are not only ideas but also ideals, and as the moral philosopher Susan Neiman has pointed out, we should measure reality against ideals, not the other way around: ‘Ideals are not measured by whether they conform to reality; reality is judged by whether it lives up to ideals.’” Pg. 12

• “The relationship between reality and unreality is particularly interesting in architecture because many buildings are designed to be built but remain on paper due to economic or political reasons.” Pg. 24

1 from Dan’s piece

• “Thinking long term promotes stability, consensus, and collective action. By encouraging long-term thinking, we pursue decisions that favor sustainability and the common good. This approach can bridge political and ideological divides, fostering consensus around shared long-term goals.” Pg. 57

1 from 100 ways

• “Designers first look at secondary design research, then combine it with their own up-front exploratory research, using methods such as design ethnography, contextual inquiry, observation, interviews, experience sampling methods, and diary and photo studies. Through a process of ideation, experimentation, and critique, designers then reframe the problem to arrive at the “right” solution. Of the artifacts that emerge from the design process, including sketches, drawings, models, and prototypes, the most critical is documentation, which contextualizes and communicates design action.” Pg. 146

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From Speculative Everything, p. 9:

"This dissatisfaction with existing models coupled with new forms of bottom-up democracy enhanced by social media make this a perfect time to revisit our social dreams and ideals and design's role in facilitating alternative visions rather than defining them. Of being a catalyst rather than a source of visions."

From Speculative Everything, p. 31:

"Rather than waiting for commissions from industry or seeking out market gaps for new products, designers could work with curators and other professionals, independently of industry, in partnership with organizations focused on society in the broadest sense, not just business. Similar to architects, designers could take this on as a profession using some of our time for more civic purposes."

From The Legal Design Book, p. 127:

"Not-so-experienced legal designers tend to return to their assumptions much too quickly and to use them as a basis for further considerations instead of deriving real insights. We cannot stress enough that you have to be particularly careful here. It is indeed a skill to extract the right conclusion from the existing data."

From "Dignifying Design in Law," p. 59:

"This is an ongoing (and growing) crime against humanity. I use that term quite deliberately, but not in the international law context with which we most associate the term (Bassiouni 1992). I use it to describe the scale of real human suffering such an injustice exacts every single day. That is five billion people with current or very recently unmet justice needs every single day. The scale of misery is staggering."

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“Their fictional nature requires viewers to suspend their disbelief and allow their imaginations to wander, to momentarily forget how things are now, and wonder about how things could be.”

“This dissatisfaction with existing models coupled with new forms of bottom-up democracy enhanced by social media make this a perfect time to revisit our social dreams and ideals.”

"By virtue of what we are, what we can do, and our sheer numbers, we have the capacity to change our world, and to do so at a remarkable scale."

"This means we have both the time and space ahead of us to continue this experiment and that the design choices we make today must be considered in the long term because they will impact the untold numbers of people who will live in the future."

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“Their fictional nature requires viewers to suspend their disbelief and allow their imaginations to wander, to momentarily forget how things are now, and wonder about how things could be.”

“This dissatisfaction with existing models coupled with new forms of bottom-up democracy enhanced by social media make this a perfect time to revisit our social dreams and ideals.”

"By virtue of what we are, what we can do, and our sheer numbers, we have the capacity to change our world, and to do so at a remarkable scale."

"This means we have both the time and space ahead of us to continue this experiment and that the design choices we make today must be considered in the long term because they will impact the untold numbers of people who will live in the future."