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