Revolutio
Sole UX Designer · 0→1 · 12 weeks
Designing a legal-workflow platform from zero — a workspace lawyers trust, where matters, documents, approvals and invoicing live in one connected flow.
Revolutio is a legal-tech startup building for law practices. As the sole UX designer on a team of three, I owned everything design: branding, information architecture, wireframes for every feature, the component system and the final screens — working directly with stakeholders and legal domain experts.
Lawyers were stitching their practice together across email, folders and spreadsheets. They repeatedly recreated similar documents from scratch, had no single view of a matter's status, and — critically — wouldn't trust a tool whose workflow only almost matched how they actually work. Money and reputation ride on every matter; the bar for trust is unforgiving.
Solo designer, end to end: product structure, paper sketches with domain experts, the matter-centric IA, a component library built before high-fidelity screens, branding and stakeholder reviews through final handoff.
Research with practising lawyers, then paper sketches of the sitemap and core flows — matter overview, approvals, invoicing — validated cheaply before pixels. Systemise early: the component library made every later iteration faster.
- 01The matter is the home object — everything (documents, people, billing, status) hangs off it.
- 02Build the component system before hi-fi screens — a design decision, not a cleanup task.
- 03Show how every computed result came to be — trust is a UX problem.
- 04Sketch with domain experts on paper first; lawyers surface flaws faster than any hi-fi review.
A complete, coherent platform designed in twelve weeks by one designer — matter management, document workflows, approvals and invoicing on a single component system. The early investment in systemisation meant new features composed from existing parts instead of new debates, and the domain-expert sketching sessions meant the workflow matched how lawyers actually practise.