U Do It Legal

Key Skills

UX Design, Project Management, User Research & Testing

Timeline

Jan - May 2025

Class

Experience Studio Three

U Do It Legal (UDIL) is an organization that provides affordable legal resources, education, and support for self-represented litigants (SRLs) in California family law cases.

Our team partnered with UDIL to improve the usability, accessibility, and SEO of their website. We focused on redesigning free legal resources for SRLs, implementing updated designs in Squarespace, and validating improvements through user testing.

Final Design

Our team created a redesigned:

Homepage
About Us page
FAQ page (moved and reorganized for easier navigation)
Brand-new Resource Homepage

I personally championed the FAQ redesign, categorizing questions to make content clearer and faster to find.

Process

As one of the team leaders, I was involved in every stage of the project:

Conducting usability audits
Creating low-fidelity mockups
Implementing final designs in Squarespace

One major challenge was working within Squarespace’s constraints while staying true to our original design goals. To address this, I:

Led sponsor communication
Documented design decisions
Helped shape team presentations

User testing played a key role in validating our design choices. We refined features based on real feedback, ensuring the site was intuitive and accessible for self-represented litigants.

This project helped me grow by:

Leading design decisions with confidence
Adapting creatively to platform limitations
Strengthening my user-centered design approach

Below is an indication of the improvements I made to the FAQ's page.

Reflection

Working on the UDIL project was a huge learning experience for me, both as a designer and a leader. I took on a bigger leadership role than I had in past projects, helping with prototypes, sponsor communication, Squarespace implementation, documentation, and presentations. One of the biggest challenges was working around Squarespace’s limitations while staying true to our design goals, which pushed us to get creative.

Through usability and A/B testing, I learned the importance of grounding decisions in real user feedback. Overall, this project helped me grow in collaboration, leadership, and user-centered design, and it’s one of the experiences I’m most proud of in Experience Studio.