Building Apps for Kids

It is a wide world out there and there are many problems to solve. People usually pick a specific niche and start working on a product that solves a concrete problem in that niche. One of the most interesting niches are tied to children, simply because they do not treat our new-age devices the same way as we do, when we are older. There is a lot of focus on User Experience, Interaction and Design of the application and a bit less on the code quality. We will talk about tips and tricks that I've learned in more than 1 year of developing apps for children, including testing and improving our apps.

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1. Building Apps (for Kids) iOSDevUK 6 - Aberystwyth, September 2016
2. A GREAT AND NOBLE
 MISSION
3. A simple idea, but helpful to many
4. PROTOTYPING USER INTERFACE
5. USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
6. ITERATING, IMPROVING, TESTING
7. MINIMUM
 VIABLE PRODUCT
8. TIME & BUDGET
9. TECHNOLOGY IN MVP
10. EXPERIMENTING
 WITH
 TECHNOLOGY
11. DID I WRITE TESTS? NO!
12. MEASURE
 WITH
 ANALYTICS
13. DEPLOY TO APP STORE
14. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
15. KIDS CATEGORY GUIDELINES
16. THE “PARENTAL” GATE
17. FIRST FEEDBACK
18. “My 4 year old should be talking in complete sentences, but she’s not. She has now started pretending to be an animal and is imitating them. Excellent!” - A mom from Slovenia
19. FAILURES R E L E A S E - C O L L E C T F E E D B A C K - I M P R O V E
20. CUSTOMER VS USER O U R C U S T O M E R O U R U S E R
21. UPDATES After first very positive feedback we realised that we forgot to include multiple features…
22. LOCALIZING
 YOUR APP
23. ACCESSIBILITY Accessible applications are much closer to children with disabilities, as early development stages are very important.
24. CONTINUE TO DEVELOP
25. BE OPEN AND SHARE
26. BE WHO YOU ARE DO WHAT YOU LOVE AND HAVE FUN! @ T H E L E G O L E S S