This document describes the overall approach towards user experience for the openlaws platform. It focuses on both main user groups, namely end-users as well as developers from the legal informatics community. After a review of existing legal platforms as well as some analytics and research platforms, the mock-ups for the openlaws portal are presented, together with its first prototypical realization. In addition, the authors report briefly about the two major community events for user experience input, the Openlaws Code Camp and the Openlaws Open Source Software Workshop.