Designing apps for children
Leanne Sherwood at UX for Kids (2015)
Related reading
Books, research, ideas and people referenced in this talk.
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Projects and resources
- CBeebies Playtime Island app01:27The speaker describes Playtime as an app based on the CBeebies world where children personalise a hot-air balloon, navigate to games and win items to customise their world.
- CBeebies Storytime app02:03The speaker describes Storytime as an interactive pop-up-book experience with swipeable pages, folding assets and small interactive games.
- GOV.UK user research08:53The speaker says the BBC gathers feedback through formal research and informal guerrilla testing in schools and nurseries while developing the Playtime app.
Concepts
- Brainwriting07:02The speaker describes brainwriting as silently writing stories for five minutes, passing papers around, growing ideas and pulling out themes, especially for people uncomfortable drawing.


