My Opinion about Good and Bad User Interface

   

     For anything electronic, a visually nice-looking user interface is key. I have encountered many websites, games etc. that are targeted to children. Some of them do fine, and make me want to look at them, whereas others, while trying to appeal to kids, are cheesy and seem to think we are idiots. The latter of those two ends up irritating me and making me not want to use the webpage, game, or whatever else it is.  So for every one making something fun-looking for kids, here are some tips.

     First of all, Kids can read fonts other than comic sans! It drives me crazy when comic sans is used to make something look appealing, fun or friendly. Sure, maybe comic sans was the most appealing font for children at some point, but all "fun!" webpages use it. Another tip, which I think applies to any UI, youth directed or otherwise, is that white backgrounds are not always the best. light text on a dark background is fine, so is a light colored (but not necessarily white) background with dark text. A third tip, when designing for kids, don't use buttons that look like "bubbles" or cartoony round-cornered rectangles. I, at least, don't like clip art (cartoony pictures) scattered across a website, but that's just me. To sum up, I would like to show a User Interface that I like, and one that I don't. Here's the link for the good one: click here!. And, here's the bad one: other link here!



Thanks for reading, and ideas can go in the comments!