Great iPad UX Analysis From a 2.5 Year Old
I came across this great video on Laughing Squid of a 2.5 year-old using an iPad for this first time.
Granted, the author mentions she is already used to an iPhone. Yet with an entirely new form factor she still takes right to it — quickly finding and playing her favorite spelling game, figuring out how to enlarge iPhone-only apps to full-size, navigating from one app to the next, and scrolling through photos (there's a really cute moment when she sees a picture of "her and doggy").
It's just fascinating to me how she interacts with the iPad. She really is one of the new Children of Cyberspace. This first line from that article stuck with me:
"My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy’s book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader."
Unlike you and I, these children are growing up completely comfortable with multitouch interfaces. As the Laughing Squid author mentions of his daughter:
"Her expectations about computing will be shaped by the fact that she’s growing up in a touchscreen world."
And he's right. For these children it will no longer by point-and-click. It will be TOUCH-and-SWIPE.
