This document outlines principles for user experience (UX) design for children. It begins by noting that there is not much existing UX design focused on children. Some key principles discussed are designing for age-appropriateness, establishing clear boundaries, facilitating exploration and discovery, and designing for safe social interactions. The document emphasizes that UX designers have a responsibility when designing experiences for children.

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There’s
not a lot
out there

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We are
immigrants in the
land of our
children
John Perry Barlow

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It doesn’t look
like fun coz it
looks like peeple
stuff, not kidz
User test participant, 6 years old

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Principle #1
Age
appropriate
design
(if in doubt, design up)

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Principle #2
Establish clear
boundaries
(and make it difficult to cross them)

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Principle #4
Design for
exploration and
discovery

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Principle #3
Design for
challenge

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Work & reward ?

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Conspicuous
consumption ?

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Digital castes ?

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Freemium ?

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Digital nagging ?

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Embrace the moral
dilemma

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The test of the
morality of a
society is how it
treats its children
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Principle #5
Design for safe
social interactions

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Digital
Literacy

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PBS screenshots

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Principle #6
Design for
construction

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There is a young and
impressionable mind
out there that is
hungry for
information. It has
latched on to an
electronic tube as
its main source of
nourishment. Joan Ganz Cooney

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As UX designers, we have a
responsibility to those we are
designing for.
That responsibility is far
greater when we’re designing
for children.

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@laurenceveale
iqcontent.com
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* p.s. when designing for kidz, resist the urge to use silly fontz and cutezy
misspellingz.