Designing a Children’s Web UI: 25 Examples
Designing web sites for adults can be hard sometimes, but what happens when you have to design a site for somebody totally out of your line of thinking? Children tend to be simple-minded so when most of these sites were put together, I’m sure that was kept in mind. Take a look at these sites though, if you look closely there are similarities in the way these designers put these sites together.
1. Cartoon Network
2. Nickelodoen
3. PBS Kids
4. Kids National Geographic
5. Toys R Us
6. Hasbro
7. Fisher Price
8. FAO Schwarz
9. Lego
10. Mattel
11. Marvel
12. Nintendo
13. Disney
14. SI Kids
15. Yahoo Kids
16. Reeses
17. Twizzlers
18. Kids Foot Locker
19. Nick Jr
20. Barney
21. Bob the Builder
22. Teletubbies
23. Yo Gabba Gabba
24. iCarly
25. Sesame Street Live
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10-06-09
There’s one common factor: All sites contain lots and lots of bright-coloured images.
10-07-09
I always love the conundrum of designing sites for kids, especially if there is a purchase angle to it all. Firstly you have to intice the kids to play and interact. Then you have to convince the moms and dads that that buying from a kids site is simple and grown up enough for adults. You’re actually catering for 2 diverse groups: the influencer and the decision maker. Getting this right really floats my boat.
Great selection – does my heart good to see all the colours and big “does what it says on the tin” buttons.
10-07-09
Yea Kelly, you really do have to design for two different groups of people a lot of the time. Great point!
10-07-09
I guess that when more young your public bigger is images, use color primary, bit less text e more icons.
In other words the design is more attractive.
10-08-09
WOW!! REALLY great list of examples… nicely done!!
10-13-09
Hi, great post, i was looking for a post like that 4 months ago, unfurtunatly i neve found one, anyways i have made a site for kids, http://www.pequeclub.com.mx, is not complete but is a kid ui too. hope you liked and review it
another site i liked is http://www.gugafit.com, simple and clean interface for kids
10-15-09
hi,
i design a lot of corporate website where the target audience range can be very large. When designing for children’s websites however, the range only consists of a few years, 4-7 8-11 12-15 for example, where each group is completely different. very challenging!