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Access to Justice

5 Takeaways from “Forms that Work”

I just finished reading Forms that Work -Designing Web Forms for Usability by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney. Wow! I’ve been thinking a lot about forms over the last 5 or so years. Typically, I take court forms (many of Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 6 monthsAugust 23, 2022 ago
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Batch convert Adobe LiveCycle (XFA) forms into ordinary PDFs

If you have to deal with legacy XFA forms in your workflow, read on for a complex but scalable method to convert all of them into ordinary PDFs in one go. In the beginning Adobe LiveCycle was created. This had Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 1 yearJanuary 5, 2022 ago
Form Automation

Automating a grading book with Microsoft Flow / Power Automate

I want my students to submit weekly reflections, but it also needs to be easy for me to collect those. My solution is a Microsoft Form for each week, an Excel Workbook in OneDrive, and Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow) Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 2 yearsAugust 23, 2020 ago
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Access to Justice

The best AI might be the one we invented 50 years ago

If we want to meet our society’s need for legal help at their most vulnerable times, and not only the needs of our wealthiest or largest corporations, we need to apply technology to the problem. One of the technologies that Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 yearsFebruary 25, 2020 ago
DocAssemble

Understanding Docassemble’s YAML interview format

When Jonathan Pyle created Docassemble, he chose to use the YAML file format as the main way to represent the contents of an interview. When writing a Docassemble interview, it can be helpful to understand what YAML is, which conventions Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 yearsJanuary 17, 2020 ago
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Access to Justice

MADE: Continual improvement

Periodically, I go into the analytics of MADE and see where people get stuck. As of December 2019, the pages that our users most commonly stop at include the expected: the various intro screens, where someone who is just curious Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 yearsDecember 8, 2019 ago
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Access to Justice

Do you need a custom legal app?

Legal aid agencies have been building apps for decades. More law firms are getting in on it, with apps like UpSolve for bankruptcy and Wilson Sonsini’s app to help firms comply with California privacy laws gaining news and attention. Should Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 yearsOctober 1, 2019 ago
A2J Author

Basic elements of an interactive legal application

So, you want to create your first interactive legal application (sometimes also called guided interview or wizard). Congratulations! Whether your app is the next TurboTax for drafting wills or an access to justice app for pro se debtors, it helps Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 3 yearsOctober 1, 2019 ago
Access to Justice

Making MADE: User-centered Design in Practice

MADE is a wizard-like online interview that helps tenants who are being evicted. It can be completed on a smartphone or desktop computer completely without the help of a lawyer. It covers 300 questions and it educates tenants about their Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 4 years ago
Access to Justice

A Legal Hackathon Toolkit

Updated 4/1/2019 Do you have a legal tech hackathon coming up? Here’s something that might help you get started. Four small (under 200 lines) Docassemble skeleton projects that you can adapt for your use. A simple chatbot with branching logic that Read more…

By Quinten Steenhuis, 4 yearsFebruary 26, 2019 ago

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