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Building confidence in AI for high-stakes legal work

When Inquisita set out to build a discovery response assistant for law firms, they knew the challenge wasn’t just technical. In a field where precision is everything and AI is still met with caution, they needed a tool that legal professionals could trust, so they turned to us.

A UI screenshot from Inquisita's discovery response tool showing a question list and AI-generated draft response for a legal request.A UI screenshot from Inquisita's discovery response tool zooming in on the draft with objection reasoning and linked documents.
Client
Inquisita
Industry
Legal tech
Service
UI/UX Design
Team Setup
1 designer + 1 researcher
Timeline
8 weeks

Goal

The client approached us to turn their initial concept into a working prototype and validate it with legal professionals.

Their goal was to  help US legal teams draft responses to discovery requests faster by analyzing uploaded documents and auto-generating tailored replies with objections, references, and citations.

Challenge

Discovery response drafting is a sensitive and high-stakes legal process. Many attorneys are wary of using AI, especially in client-facing work. Trust, transparency, and control were key challenges throughout the design.  

Another challenge was balancing legal accuracy with usability: the platform had to remain flexible for professional review, while offering automation that truly saved time.

Also, several parts of the flow, such as linking documents, showing reasoning, and managing objections, required close collaboration with legal experts to get the tone and logic right.

Outcome

We delivered a clickable prototype, a design system, and a tested user experience for onboarding, drafting, document management, and exporting. We also provided branding, a logo, and early landing page content.

Our designs helped validate key assumptions with legal professionals, and informed the direction for future development and fundraising.

The user tests we ran confirmed a strong interest in the product, particularly its ability to save time while giving attorneys full control over edits and objections.

8
Weeks
12
Research sessions
6
Design versions
Project timeline
2 months timeline starting with discovery and the creation of basic branding materials then from week 3 design and iteration based on user tests follow
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Discovery & IA

We kicked off the project with a deep-dive discovery phase, where we:

  1. Researched the U.S. discovery process and key legal document types (Interrogatories, RFAs, RFPs)
  2. Mapped out how these are typically handled within firms
  3. Identified opportunities to streamline the flow using AI

We also worked closely with  the stakeholders to define the information architecture:

  1. Dashboard with status indicators per case
  2. Case view structured around Discovery Sets and their individual items
  3. Multi-level document linking and response history
A flowchart illustrating the user navigation structure in the Inquisita platform, showing paths from the dashboard to cases, discovery requests, documents, exports, and detailed question workflows with associated metadata and progress tracking.
Basic information architecture we mapped out together
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Branding & UI Kit

In addition to designing the user experience and flows, we also supported Inquisita with visual design and branding to ensure the product felt trustworthy and cohesive. This included everything from the logo and UI kit to social media assets and presentation materials:

  1. Designed a classic but modern brand identity and logo
  2. Built a flexible UI kit in Figma that supported scaling the prototype
  3. Created social media templates and product visuals for investor materials
Inquisita logo variations, each with unique iconography—link symbol, brain-inspired network, and magnifying glass—shown in both light and dark backgrounds.
Three initial logo versions created as starting points for exploration.
The Inquisita logo version with the magnifying glass, on grey background
The final logo after a couple of iterations.
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Additional contributions

Beyond the core drafting flow, we explored and shaped several other key areas of the product to ensure a cohesive and scalable experience:

  1. Admin and onboarding flow including firm and user setup
  2. Landing page structure and early copywriting
  3. Ideas for exports, version control, and linking documents to individual responses
Nate Kruse
CEO of Inquisita
 
Inquisita logo showing Inquisita's name in black with a magnifying glass in blue

I am extremely happy we decided to work with UX studio. Their quality of work, professionalism, and user research provided for a really positive experience. If you're a startup looking to understand your market and users better, and want to translate those learning into intuitive UI workflows, UX studio is a fantastic choice.

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