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Stefania PasseraHelena Haapio
Michael Curtotti
Making the meaning of contracts visible
IRIS 2014 Conference • 20th February 2014 • Salzburg
- The user just needs to concentrate on answering “concrete” questions. In order to draft a contract, one does not need to master iron-clad legalese or specific design skills
- The job of lawyers and designers, in this case, is to be orchestrators: 1) deconstructing the contract so as to be able to ask the right questions from the user 2) constructing top-notch textual and visual“contract building blocks” that the code will automatically adapt to the needs of the user
- The contract is co-created by knowledge and activities of experts and final users
- Given a certain issue discussed in a contract, we need to find a visual formula that can flexibly illustrate all possible cases and variants
- If we cannot find such “visual archetype”, one big benefit arising from visualizating disappears: we cannot compare effectively alternative choices!
- Automation requires code. Code is more easily written and updated if the visual format of our output is constant, and we can follow a modular approach
- By generating and comparing different texts and visuals, the contract can be better understood and negotiated inside and outside organizations
- Managers can test whether their understanding of legalese contracts is correct: they can input information (as they understood it) in the tool, and see if the output looks like the one of the counterparty
- Visualization can help understandin in international business, when one of both parties are not native speakers