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02 — Product design

Flexible resourcing solution for lawyers, and clients

Resourcing solution providing clients with first-rate lawyers
Placement page
Sample of Placement¹ page
Role
  • Lead designer
  • Minor front-end development
Scope
  • Product strategy
  • Interaction design
  • Visual design
  • Prototyping
Company
  • Simmons & Simmons London
Location
  • London, United Kingdom
Tools
  • Sketch
  • Principle
Brief
Create a platform where Simmons & Simmons can supplement consultant lawyers to Clients' projects, or internal projects. This covers onboarding consultants, and assisting Simmons & Simmons in selecting the ideal consultant for any project.

Overview

Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm, founded in the City of London. Simmons & Simmons Adaptive is their flexible resourcing platform in providing clients with first-rate lawyers.

Why did the project exist in the first place?

Simmons & Simmons needed to find a way to manage the resourcing of projects with Clients. Adaptive connects Clients to lawyers through a rigorous selection of best lawyers to take on any project.

The goal was to create a platform where Simmons & Simmons can supplement consultant lawyers to Clients' projects, or internal projects. This covers onboarding consultants, and assisting Simmons & Simmons in selecting the ideal consultant for any project.

We have 4 main features: placement management, consultants & clients management (CRM), billing, and matter management.

Placement Management

The main block of the project. Create, and manage the lifecycle of placements; supply the ideal consultants to projects
Placement: Open status
Placement on Open status

CRM

Management of consultants, and clients
Consultant page on unverified status
Consultant page on unverified status
Verifying a consultant
Verifying a consultant

Billing and Timesheets

Create, approve, or decline invoices, and manage filing of timesheets
Invoices and timesheets
Invoice page, and timesheet page

Matter management

Transition the project to a matter. Manage it from milestones to tasks, events, and activities
Matter management
Matter page
Profile completion: Onboarding consultants
Profile completion of new consultants
My role
It was my first time to visit London...It was a back-to-back workload for the whole 2 months. I led the product design, and had a fair share in front-end development.
On our way to present initial mocks to Simmons & Simmons (I'm holding the camera)

Dig in

I was sent to London to work with the product, and engineering teams closely with client collaborations. It was my first time to visit London. (Thinking about it, how I wish I should've explored London more that time, as we were mostly indoors working heavily on the project).

It was a back-to-back workload for the whole 2 months. I led the product design, and the engineering team would develop what would be approved by the product team. I also had my fair share in helping the development (front-end only). Those 2 months reeked of stress, yet gratefulness, and excitement as it was my first time in the city.

Hangout after successful presentation
Hangout after a successful presentation
Placement pages
Placement pages¹: From Open to Completed status
Designs were to Client's satisfaction, and mine. Most importantly, the project was shipped.

As of this writing (2020), Adaptive has been going on, and widely used by the Client. I'm delighted with the outcome of this project. Designs were to Client's satisfaction, and mine. Most importantly, the project was shipped.

On the 4th quarter of 2019, Simmons & Simmons did a brand refresh, and now uses a bright coral palette.

Login Adaptive
Login screen
Editing notes
Editing notes
Compare consultants
Compare and selecting consultants
Events page
Events page
¹ Paragraphs, companies, and personalities in this placement sample are entirely fictional, and shown for presentation purposes only.
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