40% Less Time Buried in Legal Documents

40% Less Time Buried in Legal Documents

Intro

Melior is a legal SaaS platform designed to help legal teams analyze, review, and extract insights from large volumes of legal documents.

Category

Legal B2B

Status

Design phase done

Deliverables

Research Design System Desktop App Design

team

2 PMs. 2 developers. 2 designers.

Category

Legal B2B

Status

Design phase done

Deliverables

Research Design System Desktop App Design

team

2 PMs. 2 developers. 2 designers.

Impact

The redesigned experience transformed dashboards into actionable insight tools:

↓ 60%

↓ 60%

Time to Insight

Faster identification of relevant clauses and risks

↑ 40%

↑ 40%

Data Exploration

Increased interaction with filters and deeper analysis

Review Efficiency

Users could review more documents in less time

Problem

From Document Overload to Insight Bottlenecks

From Document Overload to Insight Bottlenecks

As a Product Designer, I focused on transforming dense legal data into a structured, explorable interface to enable faster document review, clearer risk identification, and more confident decision-making. Legal professionals often work with:

50–200+ documents per case

20–100+ pages per document

10–30+ hours of manual review per case

We don’t lack data - we lack speed and clarity in understanding it.

We don’t lack data - we lack speed and clarity in understanding it.

We don’t lack data - we lack speed and clarity in understanding it.

Legal teams

Legal teams were spending a disproportionate amount of time on manual document review—searching for clauses, scanning lengthy contracts, and repeatedly validating potential risks. Instead of working at a higher level of abstraction, they were operating at the level of extraction and verification.

Solution

Designing for Exploration, Not Reading

Through user interviews and identifying where cognitive effort was being lost, it became clear that the core bottleneck wasn’t access to information, but the lack of structured interpretation. I designed a structured legal data interface that enables faster navigation, clearer insights, and more efficient document review. As a result, the focus shifted toward enabling teams to move beyond manual review and toward interpreting insights and making informed, confident decisions.

Enabling Targeted Navigation

Filtering content by clause type, risk, and keywords for direct access to what matters most

Filtering content by clause type, risk, and keywords for direct access to what matters most

Structuring Legal Data

Structuring content into clear sections and scannable elements to reduce cognitive load

Encouraging Exploration

Enabling switching between clauses, comparing documents, and drilling into details

Enabling switching between clauses, comparing documents, and drilling into details

Learnings

Designing Systems That Scale Beyond Humans

By analyzing how users interacted with complex information, a few clear patterns emerged that shaped both the structure and behavior of the final solution. Key learnings: - Organized data reduces manual effort Well-structured information significantly decreases the need for repetitive scanning and verification. - Visual cues guide attention Clear hierarchy and visual signals help users quickly identify what matters most. - Exploration outperforms reading Interactive discovery leads to faster understanding than linear consumption of content. - Combined features create real value Integrated capabilities are more effective than standalone ones. - Search + highlights outperform isolated solutions Combining discovery and emphasis creates a more efficient and focused experience.

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©2026 lejla kratina

©2026 lejla kratina

©2026 lejla kratina