{"id":68380,"date":"2019-10-03T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=68380"},"modified":"2019-10-02T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:23:07","slug":"basic-elements-of-an-interactive-legal-application-steenhuis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/10\/03\/basic-elements-of-an-interactive-legal-application-steenhuis\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic elements of an interactive legal application [Steenhuis]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonprofittechy.com\/2019\/10\/01\/basic-elements-of-an-interactive-legal-application\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Basic elements of an interactive legal application<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from nonprofittechy.com by Quinten Steenhuis<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So, you want to create your first interactive legal application (sometimes also called guided interview or wizard). Congratulations! Whether you are creating the next TurboTax for drafting a will or a blockbuster access to justice app for pro se debtors, there are some standard elements of the application that it will help you to understand, whether you are a developer yourself or managing an outsourced project. This will be the first in a small series of blogs about getting started in interactive app building. As I\u2019ve built these apps both for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbls.org\/MADE\">non-profits<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lemmalegal.com\/\">law firms<\/a>\u00a0over the last few years, I realized it can help for everyone to share the same vocabulary. This guide applies to one kind of legal app\u2013a linear wizard-like interview that helps a pro se user create a letter, fill out a form, or perhaps complete an intake.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For the most part, these concepts apply whether you are using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docassemble.org\/\">Docassemble<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotdocs.com\/\">HotDocs<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.a2jauthor.org\/\">A2J Author<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/legal.thomsonreuters.com\/en\/products\/contract-express\">Contract Express<\/a>, or any of a number of different platforms. Of course, they also hold true for platforms built on Docassemble, such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/documate.org\/\">Documate\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/community.lawyer\/\">Community.Lawyer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nonprofittechy.com\/2019\/10\/01\/basic-elements-of-an-interactive-legal-application\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68382 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/interview-diagram.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/interview-diagram.png 541w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/interview-diagram-142x150.png 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basic elements of an interactive legal application &#8212; from nonprofittechy.com by Quinten Steenhuis Excerpt: So, you want to create your first interactive legal application (sometimes also called guided interview or wizard). Congratulations! Whether you are creating the next TurboTax for drafting a will or a blockbuster access to justice app for pro se debtors, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[208,45,829,419,276,825,830,285,309,196,204,480,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-computer-science","category-cost-of-legal-services-including-access","category-ideas-teaching","category-interactivity","category-law-schools","category-legal-technologies","category-legislation-legislatures","category-platforms","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-programming","category-society","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68383,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68380\/revisions\/68383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}