First animation test for opening video.

I want to make it a bit snazzier, so I'm going to have to play around with effects and audio I think!

Snazzed up concept.

Concept logo/App icon

First concept mock up.

Sketched up design concept.

Childrens Apps.

If im going to market to parents and children, I'll have to have a look at some apps aimed at children, then have a look and general app design as a whole. Here are some children apps that I have found.

Art My Kid Made

By Gramercy Consultants

A colourful app, taking themes from real world (art on the fridge) This app allows you to share your kids drawings with other parents. simple yet bright and colourful.

Maily: Your Kids' First Email

By Goodnews.is

A much more simple interface is used here. This is an app to give your children their first Email experience, and have it be controlled by you. Colourful buttons, and a simple interface.

Farm 123 ~ StoryToys Jr

By StoryToys Entertainment Limited

 This is a story app for children. It has a lot of bright, loud colours, and very cartoonish drawings. Things are very obvious. 

Cinderella by Nosy Crow

By Nosy Crow

This one has a much more individual look at the interface and art style. Where a lot of apps have stuck with the look of the OS, this one has made its self its own look, resembling actual story books.

Concept social aspect and the apps ability.

I won't be able to make a social side to my app, but I will be able to make a working iBooks application for the iPad. The things I want in the social side will be...

Sharing - The ability to share your kids favourite books to other users

Comment - To be able to leave comments on books, like reviews.

I think ill give the stories a few options too. You can have a voice over, or no voice over for kids who can't hear very well, or for deaf/blind children.

I'll start sketching up some logos and names for the app to get the branding on the way..!

Current interactive kids books.

I found some rather nasty looking ones from a council website here. These are (well they look like) stories written for the purpose of making them interactive.

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm

There also seems to be a huge amount of them for digital download on Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Interactive-Story-Books-Software/b?ie=UTF8&node=463966

I think im going to focus more on the apps interactivity more than the stories interactivity. We'll see how it all pans out though.

Brain Fart.

OKAY! So I've had an idea which I'm going to do some more research into. An application for the iPad that features a selection of animated children's books. I can do this by making a single Book using iBooks author, but creating my own navigation system within it, with multiple books. I'd love to have a social aspect to the App, like a social network that lets parents rate books, comment on books, and suggest books to other parents depending on how much their kids liked it. The name would be something bedtime related as it is for childrens bedtime stories. I'll do some research into whats out in the market at the moment, then maybe look into animated childrens stories and books.