Now a days millions of children use internet and the number is increasing day by day. Many websites specifically target children & even mainstream websites are adding “kids corner”.

Despite immense growth in users and services, very little is known about how children actually use websites or how to design sites which cater to their requirements?

At Interactive Bees while developing & designing websites we try and understand the target audience fully, their browsing behavior and then try developing the products which fulfill their requirements.

After doing an extensive research on what are the pre-requisites for kids websites, we realized that Kids are easily stumped by confusing sites, hence the website has to be very simple. Children are usually incapable of overcoming many usability problems and quite impatient so websites must avoid technical problems or crashes because when kids face an error message either they ignore them or close the window and simply leave the site or find something else to do.

While designing websites for kids certain navigational features which one should definitely keep in mind are:

Navigational Issues

The user interface for homepage design and navigation systems should be simple and straight forward and should let the kids get to the content as simply as possible. Use of funny images in the navigation should be encouraged as the children are naturally drawn to simple, obvious, and recognizable objects.

Avoid Inconsistent navigation options, where the same destination is referred to in different ways, causing visitors to reach the same feature repeatedly.

One should keep the language simple, as using fancy wordings and fonts in interfaces will confuse kids and prevent them from exploring that feature.

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