Abstract

In a country in crisis full of explosions in favor of social demands stemming from decades of violations of citizens’ rights in basic matters such as education, health, pensions, and even the right to water, it is imperative that all people understand their rights to be able to fight for them. The Social Uprising that began in Chile in October 2019 has presented an opportunity to rethink the usual limits of design, this time in the service of a need for public order in the field of law. Although communication among people has always been a contentious issue in society, it is even more complex when the message delivered is made up of technicalities that the recipients do not master; such is the case of law and in the drafting of statutes and regulations. In this context, design assumes a key role linking education, politics, communication, and legislation. This article seeks to uncover how, by means of communicational tools and strategies of design, the legal system can be brought closer to people by decoding its laws in two main areas—Denotative and Experiential—meanwhile, in the same manner, how the legal profession can benefit from the use of design in carrying out its functions as an intermediary between judges and citizens in the context of a completely codified regulatory system. Design at the service of law dignifies its decoding role and also updates its ethical and political potentials and allows design to be conceived of as an internal-active component that can own the political in the legislative sphere.