Developing Apps for Children: Things To Consider to Build One

Children are today using mobile apps for learning and gaming purposes.

While they could rarely know how to download and use apps, the parents are the ones to guide them on that. One reason for which apps are seen to have increased engagement among the children groups is they enhance cognitive thinking and learning.

Different apps for learning, quizzes or educational sessions allow the kids to absorb knowledge in a far better than from the textbooks. Besides, simple gamification concepts those apps made the learning process fun-filled and more interesting for young ones.

As the market for children-specific apps is really seeing an upward trend, you can too build children’s app if you were thinking to invest in Android or iOS app development. While seeking help from a trusted app development company is most essential for that, here are certain crucial aspects to consider beforehand.

Know the successful types of apps prevailing

Do not just build an app for children. Define a specific purpose for it, i.e. how you are going to get the kids engaged with your app. Will it offer a learning experience to them? Or, it will be just a fun app to spend free time or practice hobby session. Depending on the purpose, you can make three kinds of apps:

A pure game app with some fun journey with level completion, colours/fruits/flowers matching, and lots more like that.
An Education app for preschool teaching with alphabetical and arithmetic lessons
App for nurturing creative skills with which one can paint colours, do sketches, build an art

Be specific with design aspects

Do not forget that you are making an app for novice users who are not accustomed to mobiles or any other smart devices. Thus. whatever be the purpose of your app, make it as simple as possible. Navigation should be well instructed to them with gestures and animations.

Make everything colourful and bright

From icons, menus to the CTAs (call-to-actions) for navigation, everything of the app should be colourful. Bright elements will make the interface of the app look good and it’s needed to hold the attention of the kids. You also need to be precise with shadow effects, background and colour contours.

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Sound effects and animation

Static elements in the app will bore the fickle-minded kids. You need to use animation effects with sounds wherever possible. The animation is a great way to show the users (here children) how the interface elements react upon every user action on the app. For instance, sound of claps when a quiz or puzzle is solved, sound of coins falling when a level is completed and so on.

Achievements or rewards

Children love surprises and hence raise their enthusiasm with rewards and prizes. A simple text of ‘hooray’, dashboard with scores achievement, total earned points or a prize unboxing are few sample ways to motivate children. So, remember to include one or more such things on your app.

These tips will help you get an app for kids. However, you need to get services from an expert company for Android or iOS app development to make sure however unique your app idea is, it is developed successfully. Vision & Solutions can help you. We are a team of experts offering industry-specific app solutions and educational and children apps are also our niche.