Law Librarian Conversations

On December 10, 2010, Law Librarian Conversations episode 16 will focus on the topic of the Future of Interface Design for legal research applications and services. [Register here]

This will be a discussion with: Jason Wilson, Vice President Jones McClure Publishing; Ed Walters, CEO, Fastcase; and Tom Boone, Reference Librarian, Loyola Law School.

Here are posts from the participants:

• Ed Walters: Discovery Without Search: Law Librarian Conversations Backgrounder
• Jason Wilson: Law Librarian Conversations: The Future of Interface Design
• Tom Boone: From interface to extinction: law school librarians beyond Thunderdome
• Rich Leiter: Reflections on the End of the World Wide Web and the Future of the Internet as an Information/Service Resource
• Roger Skalbeck: Mobile Legal Research: Do we NEED an app for that?

During the live discussion, co-hosts Richard Leiter and Roger Skalbeck will consider three broad topics relating to interface for legal research tools:

• Native App vs. Browser-based tools
• What interface innovations can we borrow from other applications?
• Modularity & Interoperability: Will we ever have modular legal research tools? (I’m thinking APIs, a plug-in architecture or
  interoperable products)

Here are some things to read relating to this topic: (all updates will be tagged as Episode16 on the LawLibCon Delicious account)

• Closing the Digital Frontier
• Responsive Web Design
• Not Just Key Numbers and Keywords Anymore: How User Interface Design Affects Legal Research – by Julie M. Jones
• iPad UI Conventions – a set on Flickr

Add your comments with ideas about the future of interface design for legal information tools.

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