Align better through contract design

With Visual Contracts we have taken up the challenge to display the employment contract in a visual and understandable way for all our cleaning employees. In this they have distinguished themselves as an innovative party that makes complex matter understandable by means of the Legal Design Thinking theory. Lieke guided us in this in an excellent way and we are proud of the result that is now available.

We had a lot of different eye openers about topics we didn't really realise before. That we had such big IP for example. We never really thought about our experience, all the data sets that we were building, but also methods and methodologies that we were developing in the past 15 years. So that really helped us to also translate that into our Terms and Conditions.

Going through all the design thinking steps [in the online training] is educational and a lot of fun. I spend evenings practicing drawing (and no, you don’t need to have a talent in drawing), interviewing users of employment contracts, trying to get clear what problems they experience when closing an employment contract [...] Lieke guides you through every step of the way and provides you with a lot of helpful feedback. [...] Also, I loved finding ways to translate the experience of users into a better legal document. It gave me the chance to think conceptually and be creative.

“Visual Contracts has a true innovative approach towards legal issues. Combined with good legal advice, the legal design thinking approach of Visual Contracts can lead to an accessible and clear contract or other legal document. Working with Lieke Beelen and her team from Visual Contracts is an inspirational, creative and fun journey.”

"Lieke is an exceptional driver and maker of making legal topics more accessible! Be it in a labour law environment or as in our case @Airbus working with us on the redesign of an NDA her creativity and enthusiasm was and is impressive! "

“Lieke is a joy to work with, very hands-on and inspiring. We held a legal design workshop together, for my retirement event. Lieke went to great lengths to make it work, and it was a great success.”

"Very pleased with the collaboration. The co-creation sessions were well designed and geared towards a robust and nuanced understanding of the brief, which the final products reflected. It was a complex ask and task, but Visual Contracts was more than up for the job! Highly recommended"