I designed an award winning and first of its kind software solution that allows litigators to consolidate and quantify the information generated by state superior court judges as a result of machine learning, artificial intelligence and analytics techniques. This also granted the company and myself a patent.
It was a major challenge to connect with an audience that is traditionally number averse, but that’s what I did. In Gavelytics, we took complex unstructured docket data, parsed it and displayed it in a way our user base found useful; it helped lawyers get familiar with their judge and allow them to move away from anecdotal opinions into the data driven space.
Me and my team were granted a patent US 10,452,734 B1 for a Data Visualisation Platform for Use in a Network Environment. See it here:
Founded by Rick Merrill, a former LA Litigator, Gavelytics is the first AI-powered analysis tool to quantify judges, with the goal of making the perception of Judges objective. He started Gavelytics, a product that would read and understand vast amounts of litigation data to generate actionable insights.
As the third member of the team to join the company expectation was high. One of the biggest design considerations for this project was to make “boring lawyer software” visual and insightful, which meant helping lawyers consume information and make decisions by quickly glancing the information without having to spend a lot of time skimming through or reading full paragraphs of text.
As a Product Designer at Gavelytics building a great user experience meant making sound, cohesive product design decisions, translating our in-house SME Knowledge into a product, that balanced business and user goals as much as possible. I also had the honour of naming the company and designing its logo.