Sesame’s Best Practices Guide for Children’s App Development

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Here's the direct link to the pdf: http://www.sesameworkshop.org/assets/1191/src/Best%20Practic...

Thanks!

This is fantastic. Reminds me of this article from a while ago:

http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/03/12/dads-plea-de...

So many kids apps could take advantage of these best practices. Glad to see this on HN.

These are great design tips for everyone, not just children.

When an app becomes easy enough for a child to operate, it becomes easier for adults as well. I can perform delicate hand gestures, solve an app's user interface novelties, and read dense blocks of explanatory text, but I don't want to.

Now, if they would come up with an app that would allow my handicapped daughter to watch their current episodes on her Android tablet. Even if I could get them from iTunes, it would be previous season. Yes I could buy cable (just for that) and a DVR (just for that) and then still technically be breaking the law...

Can non-handicapped children watch sesame shows on am Android tablet?

I'm curious why it matters that it's the current season. Several seasons worth of shows are available on Amazon as well as on Netflix. I would be much more interested in finding the first 20 or so seasons.

I presume the reason they haven't stopped making it is because kids would still like to see new episodes, and my daughter would enjoy that as well. Yes, we have some of the older seasons, but Mom and Dad can almost do a verbatim of the script on some of them by this point :-)

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