Designing for Kids

Name: Designing for Kids
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138290761
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Creating for Playing, Learning, and Growing

By Krystina Castella

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Designing for Kids explores the unique considerations required when creating products, environments, and experiences for children. It covers developmental stages, play patterns, safety standards, and age transitions, enriched with research and expert interviews. This textbook features over 150 colour images and discussion questions, making complex design concepts accessible and practical.
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Ideal for design students and professionals in industrial, interaction, environmental, and graphic design who focus on creating for children. Also valuable for educators and anyone seeking insight into child-centred design principles.

Designing for Kids gives you all you need to know about age appropriateness, play patterns, age transitions, play testing, safety standards, materials, and the day-to-day lives of kids, so that you can make being a kid better with your designs.

Description

Designers, especially design students, rarely have access to children or their worlds when creating products, images, experiences, and environments for them. Therefore, fine distinctions between age transitions and the day-to-day experiences of children are often overlooked.

Designing for Kids brings together all a designer needs to know about developmental stages, play patterns, age transitions, playtesting, safety standards, materials, and the daily lives of kids, providing a primer on the differences in designing for kids versus designing for adults. Research and interviews with designers, social scientists, and industry experts are included, highlighting theories and terms used in the fields of design, developmental psychology, sociology, cultural anthropology, and education.

This textbook includes more than 150 colour images, helpful discussion questions, and clearly formatted chapters, making it relevant to a wide range of readers. It is a useful tool for students in industrial design, interaction design, environmental design, and graphic design with children as the main audience for their creations.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138290761

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 December 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 150 Halftones, color

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 880g

Pages: 466

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About the Author

Krystina Castella is a professor of industrial design and business at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, USA. Krystina has practiced as a designer and has taught at ArtCenter College of Design across disciplines for almost three decades. Her research and teaching center around designing for play, the intersection between design and ethical business, designing for social innovation, and sustainable materials and manufacturing innovation.