Community Meeting (Jan 16, 2019): Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign

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Presenters: Francesca (Law & Design Colab)

In January 2018, the Ontario government released a Standard Form Lease for residential tenancies. This was a great step towards promoting fairness in residential leases. However, we believe the document itself can be better-designed and made more accessible.

Inspired by the UK’s redesign project for residential tenancies in 2014, we are engaging legal experts, advocates and community members in a co-design process to develop a digital-first re-design of the Standard Form Lease that is accessible, interactive, and grounded in community concerns and realities.

Website: http://lawdesigncolab.ca

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Law and Design CoLab
- It is a Civic Tech project
- An entirely volunteer non-profit group
- An interdisciplinary teem
- Mission to promote design thinking and cross-sector collaboration in Ontario's Justice sector
Civic Tech
- a multidisplicnary group of designers and developers
- been meeting meeting weekly in Toronto for the past few years.
Ontario Standard Form Lease Redesign
- original
  - came out in 2014
  - it's a fillable PDF that took over a year of consultation to produce
  - the hope is that standardization will make it easier to understand
  - however it's not what the advocates had actually wanted
    - in practical use landlords still use their own rent document and attach this form as an appendix
- redesign
  - goals
    - digital, accessible, interactive, connected to resources
  - short timeline
  - phases
    - full prototype in Figma
      - will include design language including contrasts and etc
      - language updated
    - user testing using Figma or vision
    - Development