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Designing apps for children

Leanne Sherwood at UX for Kids (2015)

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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.