Sanctions research is a part of a larger legal research and precedence consideration. The goal of this research is to gather evidence, get facts, and compare to the previous sanctions, wrongdoings or history of a particular respondent.
Attorneys often spend a lot of time researching the precedence and previos sanctions, but are lacking a one source of truth. Diffferent groups use different systems and save different metadata so the search is incomplete in several applications and is time-consuming.
The goal of this project was to create a central tool that would simplify time-consuming legal research in several applications and have a one-stop-search for all sanctions research needs. We needed to quickly validate the wireframes with users.
1 Product Manager, 1 Designer
We started with discovering what enforcement groups perform sanctions research and identified several attorneys in the market and member regulation departments as well as the office of the General Counsel that is central in coordinating the legal interpretation. We started a discovery phase with a small group of 5 attorneys. We prepared few simple questions and refined them with each interview (sample only):
Personas helped our team to better understand the daily responsibilities of our users and document where their frustrations are.
Journey Maps were challenging to do as the responsibilities of attorneys vary depending on a case. I have created a main journy map covering their typical day and then focused specifically on their sanctions research to document all details.
We started with paper sketches and moved to balsamiq wireframes.
We validated and iterated the prototype as we talked in more depth with each user and improved the prototype with each comment and suggestion.
We validated and iterated the prototype as we talked in more depth with each user and improved the prototype with each comment and suggestion.