Navigating Regulations in Design

Regulations impact what we can design. This activity helps you navigate how.

Use the cards to brainstorm how four regulatory modalities (norms, technology, market, law) affect your design brief and its stakeholders.

Useful for

• Mapping regulations
• Anticipating risks and possible consequences of a design
• Ideating new design ideas
• Evaluating a design or a feature
• Prioritizing focus areas

Materials

You can use the material both online and in-person.

FigJam Canvas
Cards – mobile view

Background

This material is based on Lessig’s theory of four modalities of regulation. Lessig’s book

We have published a paper on how Lessig’s theory can be used in interaction design, for example to address environmental challenges. CHI paper