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R. CantuniDesigning Digital Products for Kidshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6287-0_8

8. UI Design

How to Create Usable and Beautiful Interfaces for Children.
Rubens Cantuni1 
(1)
Monza, Italy
 

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

—Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple

User interface (UI) design is part of the overall user experience (UX) of a product. We often hear or read about UX/UI, as if they were two disciplines going together in parallel, but it’s a very misleading way of representing that relationship: UI design is part of UX design, it’s a subset.

Just like we mentioned countless times in this book, what’s good for adults might not be so for children. In Chapter 7, we talked about how motor ...

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