Designing As/For Kids

I’ve always said that if you design with kids in mind you just might end up designing something that everyone can understand and relate to.

This doesn’t mean dumbing down a design, but rather coming up with a strong concept, and then using all your design elements to emphasize that one idea.

Anything that doesn’t help the idea goes away!

In the end, you should have arrived at a design that either is self explanatory or explainable in one sentence that makes sense to both CEOs and kids. 

Cincinnati, Ohio-based designer Adam Ladd put this theory to a test. These are his 5-year-old daughter’s first impressions of some popular logos.

(Mads J. Poulsen)

via Brand New

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    kind of amazing. Love hearing
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    “Panda bears liiiiive… out in the woods… I think.”
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    Additional thoughts: It’s interesting to see which logos she knows outright (spoiler: McDonald’s, Apple, Nike, Disney)...
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    little girls mind.
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