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News Feature

How to think like a 5 year old

SIAT students develop children's app

Posted: August 29, 2012

If you were designing an “undo” button for a 5-year-old, who can’t read, what would it look like? The traditional back arrow makes just about zero sense to a young kid.
The team at Kibooco, an app that helps kids create their own story books, spent literally hours pondering this question. They came up with a spray bottle and a cloth: undoing is like cleaning up the mess you just made.

SIAT students Nathan Sorensen (MSc student), David Choy (alumni), Allen Bevans (PhD student) and Allison Koberstein (SIAT co-op) are working at Kibooco, a company that makes apps for children. 

 

Their work was recently featured in Tech Cocktail, a media company and events organization for startups, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts.

 

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If you were designing an “undo” button for a 5-year-old, who can’t read, what would it look like? The traditional back arrow makes just about zero sense to a young kid.


The team at Kibooco, an app that helps kids create their own story books, spent literally hours pondering this question. They came up with a spray bottle and a cloth: undoing is like cleaning up the mess you just made.

read the full story on Tech Cocktail, here: http://tech.co/kibooco-think-like-5-year-old-2012-08