offline group training

2 Day offline Legal Design/contract design training

In this offline hands-on group training you will get introduced to legal design thinking and contract design. We will guide you through the legal design process and create a visual employment contract together.
Create your own visual contract!

What's included?

  • 2 Day offline training
  • Hands-on legal design skills
  • Getting familiar with the legal design thinking process
  • 1 followup session after 6 weeks
  • Lunch on both training days
  • Free access to the networking event on 12th of April

Create a visual contract

You will get hands-on guidance with creating a visual employment contract. You can ask your questions right away and train your skills on creating engaging legal communication with employees.

Getting familiar with legal design thinking

In this training you will get an overview of the overall legal design thinking process and take the first steps in applying it. Legal design thinking is best learned by doing, so this training is something not to miss out on!
Detailed plan of the training

The training program

Program Day 1

  • 15 min | Walk-in and coffee
  • 15 min | Introduction round of participants
  • 45 min | Introduction on Legal Design Thinking & background of Visual Contracts, by founder Lieke Beelen
  • 30 min | Set a project goal in groups of 2-3 (we'll match as much as possible diverse backgrounds and experience levels)
  • 15 min | Coffee break
  • 45 min | Empathy maps + interview techniques
  • 60 min | Work on your project
  • 60 min | Lunch
  • 30 min | Visual Thinking training
  • 30 min | Work on your project (Ideation)
  • 30 min | Prototype testing training
  • 30 min | Energizing surprise break
  • 60 min | Work on your project
  • 15 min | Reflect on Day 1

Program Day 2

  • 15 min | Walk-in and coffee
  • 30 min | Prepare for testing/usability testing techniques
  • 150 min | Work on your project
  • 60 min | Test your prototype
  • 30 min | Building internal platform for your legal design project, getting leadership on board
  • 60 min | Lunch
  • 45 min | Visual design skills training (theory + powerpoint and other tools)
  • 60 min | Optimize design
  • 30 min | Reflect on Day 1 + 2
  • Optional | Closing drinks and dinner (not included in training costs) at local brewery Kompaan Bier

The Hague
13 + 14 April 2023

The training will be held at 13 and 14 April at Apollo 14 in The Hague, The Netherlands. See directions in the map on the right.
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What do you get if you enroll?

 Course terms

  • Access to 2 offline training days, including lunch
  • Certificate of participation
  • Free access to the network event on 13th of April
  • After the training we will support you in your learning journey via our community
  • On request you can pay via invoice (up front), instead of via the signup on this website (email [email protected])
  • New courses are not included in this purchase
  • A minimum of 8 participants are required for the training to proceed. If 7 days before the training the minimum amount of participants is not reached, you will get a full reimbursement. There is a maximum of 20 participants
  • Cancellation and full reimbursement up to 14 days before the first training day
  • Cancellation and 50% reimbursement up to 7 days before the first training day
  • There will be no reimbursement for cancellations shorter than 7 days up to the first training day
your instructor

Lieke Beelen

With a background in Industrial Design Engineering (MSc. Design for Interaction) Lieke has worked as a service/UX designer and researcher in many different contexts. Since 2015 she is focusing on the legal sector to create access to law and access to justice by facilitating lawyers and designers to work together from a Legal Design Thinking perspective. In June 2017 she launched Visual Contracts and worked among others for Airbus Defense and Space (user friendly NDA), Harvard Pilac, Dutch Social Economic Council, Dutch prosecution services, CSU (visual employment contracts) and Koos Service Design (visual terms and conditions).

Do you have questions?
You can send us your questions  via [email protected] or post it in the community. We will answer as soon as possible.
Meet the instructor

Lieke Beelen

With a background in Industrial Design Engineering (MSc. Design for Interaction) Lieke has worked as a service/UX designer and researcher in many different contexts. Since 2015 she is focusing on the legal sector to create access to law and acccess to justice by facilitating lawyers and designers to work together from a Legal Design Thinking perspective. In June 2017 she launched Visual Contracts and worked among others for Airbus Defense and Space (user friendly NDA), Harvard Pilac, Dutch Social Economic Council, Dutch prosecution services, CSU (visual employment contracts) and Koos Service Design (visual terms and conditions).

In 2015 Lieke won the Hague Innovators prize, together with lawyer Janneke Boerman, with which they did research on how people deal with privacy on the internet.  They used the insights to create an understandable and engaging version of the privacy statement of Facebook.

Visual Contracts strives for an equal and just world. We believe that improving our legal system with empathy and a human centered approach positively contributes to this. Therefore we make the legal system accessible to everyone, regardless of background, disability or level of education. With this we empower people to become active citizens; citizens who know their rights and obligations and act proactively towards this.

We use Legal Design Thinking to improve the legal system in such a way that the law is understood and applied by everyone. In concrete terms, this means that we offer tools, workshops and design sprints to designers, lawyers and organisations. In addition, we are thé community for everyone who wants to develop and deploy as Legal Design Thinker.
Lieke Beelen
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