Jury-X
Jury-X is a Chapel Hill-based legal tech startup focused on improving the jury selection process through data-driven insights. Their platform is designed to help attorneys make more informed decisions during voir dire by providing profiles, case history, and behavioral data on potential jurors.
Overview
As a UI/UX designer for the Jury-X dashboard project, I led the design of a data-driven interface that helps attorneys evaluate jurors more efficiently, building a prototype that prioritizes clarity, usability, and real-time decision support. In addition to crafting the interface with close attention to user flows and hierarchy, I played a key role in user research and feedback synthesis to ensure the dashboard met the practical needs of legal professionals.
The Problem
Jury-X’s current internal dashboard is overly complex for attorneys, highlighting the need for a user-centered, simplified, intuitive interface that prioritizes quick access to essential case and juror information.
My Role
Worked as a UI Designer and UX Researcher to assist in the ideation and prototyping of the dashboard.
Duration
This project took place over one semester at UNC Chapel Hill for a class titled Advanced UI/UX.
The Team
1 - UI/UX Designer
2 - Court Liasons
2 - Attorneys
Solutions
Juror Overview Screen
The Juror Overview screen offers a clear, centralized view of individual juror profiles, helping attorneys quickly assess key traits and make informed decisions during voir dire and trial prep.
Judge Overview Screen
The implementation of a Judge Overview screen provides a streamlined way to document and access key judicial data, enabling faster case assessments and improving overall efficiency in trial preparation.
Juror Grid View
The Juror Grid View enables attorneys to scan and compare multiple jurors at once, improving pattern recognition, aiding strategic selection, and streamlining the decision-making process.
Juror List Screen
The Juror List screen presents a simplified, scrollable format for reviewing juror profiles, making it easy to access key information quickly and stay organized during fast-paced trial preparation.
My Process
Personas
This persona represents a 40-year-old personal injury attorney based in Miami, Florida, who brings a principled, no-nonsense approach to the courtroom. While moderately tech-savvy, they still rely on analog tools like printed layouts and often delegate digital tasks, highlighting a need for intuitive, time-saving technology. Their main goals are to streamline the jury selection process and reduce trial prep time while maintaining high standards of justice and fairness. Designing with this persona in mind allowed me to identify key features and usability priorities, ensuring the dashboard remains focused, functional, and tailored to the real-world needs of legal professionals.
To structure the dashboard layout, I developed a hierarchy chart that mapped out six main sections—Judge Info, Research, Overviews, Settings, Juror Info, and Strike Info—each with relevant subpages like Trial Dashboard Access and Notification Preferences under Settings. This chart was critical in defining the information architecture in a way that mirrors how attorneys think and operate during trial preparation. By organizing content logically and prioritizing essential tools, the chart helped prevent information overload and supported a clean, intuitive navigation system. It also laid a solid foundation for wireframing, allowing me to maintain consistency, clarity, and user focus throughout the design process.
User Flows
After finalizing the dashboard structure, I created user flows to map out how attorneys would complete key tasks within the interface. These flows helped visualize the step-by-step journey a user would take—such as navigating from the full panel overview to the juror seating chart to access a specific juror’s X-Bias score, or updating preferences in the notification settings. By focusing on simplicity, clarity, and logical progression, the flows ensured each interaction felt intuitive and efficient, reflecting the time-sensitive and high-pressure nature of courtroom preparation. This process was essential for minimizing cognitive load, reducing user friction, and ultimately making the dashboard feel seamless and purposeful.
Hierarchy Chart
With a clear structure and user flow established, I created low-fidelity wireframes to visualize the attorney dashboard layout, focusing on functionality, clarity, and hierarchy. These wireframes prioritized easy access to key information, like case details and juror profiles, and supported specific tasks such as viewing case summaries or juror scores. Working in low fidelity allowed for quick iteration and feedback, ensuring the final design would effectively meet the needs of attorneys before moving to higher-fidelity visuals.
Wireframes
Key Learnings
Visual Hierarchy and Color
Throughout the project, I realized how important layout and color are in helping users process information quickly. Attorneys don’t have time to dig through cluttered screens, so I focused on using clear visual hierarchy, grouping related content, and applying color cues to highlight critical data like juror scores or trial statuses. This approach allowed users to scan the dashboard at a glance and immediately find what they needed, which is especially valuable in high-pressure situations. Designing with this in mind taught me how thoughtful visual organization can improve both speed and accuracy in decision-making.
Navigation Structure
I learned how crucial it is to design a navigation system that aligns with users' mental models. By creating a logical hierarchy of dashboard sections, such as Judge Info, Juror Info, and Strike Info, I was able to reduce cognitive load and make the interface easier to navigate. A clean, intuitive navigation structure helps users find what they need without distraction, which is especially important in high-pressure environments like trial prep
Task-Centered Design
This project taught me the importance of organizing information based on how users think and work. By aligning content structure with key user goals, rather than simply grouping similar data, I was able to create a more intuitive user experience. This task-focused layout approach ensures that users can quickly find what they need, stay oriented within the product, and complete actions with confidence.