Last week, Debra Levin Gelman shared an excerpt from her new Rosenfeld Media book, Design for Kids. Today, we're launching a contest to give away five copies. Answer the following question to enter.
What is the most remarkable thing that you've learned about experience design by watching or interacting with a kid?
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Comments
How fast kids pick up on the application they are using. They don't have the same fears of touching and exploring that older people do. They have not been bitten yet.
Children develop an understanding for interaction and UI patterns faster than adults and when those patterns fail, they get frustrated faster and with funnier results.