{"id":183275,"date":"2014-07-15T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.rm.gfolkdev.net\/?p=183275"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:13:34","slug":"design-for-kids-and-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/design-for-kids-and-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Design for Kids&#8230; and everyone else"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, <strong>Deb Gelman&#8217;s<\/strong> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/books\/design-for-kids\/\">Design for Kids<\/a>: Digital Products for Playing and Learning<\/em> debuts. If you are in any way involved in researching and designing apps, sites, games or software for kids, Deb&#8217;s book belongs on your shelf.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6901 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1\/2014\/06\/Design-for-Kids-front-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover of Design for Kids\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>But if you&#8217;re not, this book presents a golden opportunity to become a better designer or researcher by forcing you out of your comfort zone. Like such books as <strong>Luke Wroblewski<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Mobile First<\/em> and <strong>Sarah Horton<\/strong> and <strong>Whitney Quesenbery&#8217;s<\/strong> <em>A Web for Everyone<\/em>, <em>Design for Kids <\/em>will help you become a better designer by guiding you through a design context that may be quite foreign.<\/p>\n<p>Deb&#8217;s book starts with just enough theory to serve as a strong foundation for seeing the differences and similarities between kids and other audiences. Then Deb serves up an array of practical techniques, principles, and patterns, and a framework that you&#8217;ll find useful when designing for <em>any <\/em>audience.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the book&#8217;s table of contents, its <a href=\"http:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/books\/design-for-kids\/faq\/\">FAQ<\/a>, a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/books\/design-for-kids\/foreword\/\">foreword<\/a> by <strong>Brenda Laurel,<\/strong> testimonials, and an <a href=\"http:\/\/alistapart.com\/article\/kids-4-6-the-muddy-middle\">excerpt<\/a> in today&#8217;s <em>A List Apart. <\/em>Then <a href=\"http:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/books\/design-for-kids\/\">pick up a copy<\/a> directly from Rosenfeld Media in paperback or four DRM-free ebook formats. (Of course, it&#8217;s also available from Amazon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Deb Gelman&#8217;s Design for Kids: Digital Products for Playing and Learning debuts. If you are in any way involved in researching and designing apps, sites, games or software for kids, Deb&#8217;s book belongs on your shelf. But if you&#8217;re not, this book presents a golden opportunity to become a better designer or researcher by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/design-for-kids-and-everyone-else\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186135,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183275\/revisions\/186135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}