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Simplify, then add delightness: On designing for children

I’ve been building Kidz Fun Art (web, iPad & Windows) since 2021, so 4 years at time of writing. It’s a tablet optimized application intended to be used by children of all ages &#82…

In all cases, but especially if they are creating content, you should try at all times to make any actions quick and easy to reverse (I need to better here, and my next mini-project is aimed at improving this for Kidz Fun Art). It’s a notoriously difficult problem to solve well, but is critical when building apps for children, and they frequently rest their little hands on the tablet, just as they would on a piece of paper (or their bedroom walls with a crayon…. When resting a hand on the screen it usually covers it, but it makes it simply to toggle between modes, and follows the previous guidance of keeping controls near to the location where they are needed, in this case, a few pixels away from the finger or palm (not directly under it).

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