Designing Digital Products for Kids: Deliver User Experiences That Delight Kids, Parents, and Teachers

© Rubens Cantuni 2020

R. CantuniDesigning Digital Products for Kidshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6287-0_9

9. User Testing with Kids

Learn from Your Users and Perfect Your Product.

Rubens Cantuni¹ 

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Monza, Italy

 

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding.

—Burt Rutan, American aerospace engineer

User testing doesn’t necessarily come at the end of the development process. You can test an idea at the very beginning with lo-fi prototypes, even paper prototypes. And you should test along the way any time you think it would be beneficial, for example, to test a specific functionality or interaction before moving forward with it. For sure though, it’s something you want to do before releasing to the market.

Also in this case, children ...