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

Video recording

• 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