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Why Legal Information Should Be Designed for Interruption and Re-entry, Not Completion
Design for Re-entry
Mar 23 • Jon Confer
3:30
What are Legal Information Tiers?
"Understanding the difficulty level of the legal information we are working with helps us choose more effective strategies when working with…
Mar 9 • Jon Confer
4:46

February 2026

Working Memory - Information Strategies
"Working Memory is the number of new bits of information we can keep in mind at once..."
Feb 23 • Jon Confer
3:13
Thinking Across Scale
From technical specifics to big picture decisions, zooming in and out helps us anticipate a self-represented person's legal journey.
Feb 15 • Jon Confer

January 2026

What is Beyond Plain Language?
"There are structures, frameworks, and practices that anyone working with self-represented people can apply..."
Jan 20 • Jon Confer
Legal Exponentials
Navigating decision trees is one of the most difficult parts of legal information design. Learn to harness exponential relationships in your own design.
Jan 12 • Jon Confer
Information Strategies - A Framework
Access-to-justice workers help people with difficult concepts. Knowing how people learn lets us to do this effectively.
Jan 10 • Jon Confer
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