At the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Law + Innovation Lab, director and professor Lois Lupica has her students create apps to solve a whole host of access to justice issues, from self-submitting organized divorce forms to creating an expert system for housing issues with Colorado Legal Services. One project even created an app for self-described “street kids” so that they would know their legal rights.

But each of these projects had one important aspect in common: They had to take into account the needs of users. Or, as Lupica put it, “the simple idea that you should design something for the people who are going to be using it.”