In the Bay Area, the majority of the young parents are busy working all day. There is a need for them to communicate well with their children when they are not around. Smart Kids is a mobile application game for kids under 5 years old to play online and chat with their parents while they are physically separated.
Let user choose one of the games
Fill in puzzle pieces
Ask for help
Release finished puzzle piece
Ask for help
Kids today are familiar with puzzle games, so they adopted the gaming process quite smoothly. Care was taken to ensure that the game’s structure wasn’t too complicated - otherwise, kids wouldn’t be able to figure it out.
The original Call for Help section was too big. This caused the kids to not play on their own and instead ask for help even when they didn’t need it. By making it smaller, kids played on their own and only asked for help when they truly needed it.
There wasn’t a need to show the mom’s profile picture when video chatting. Instead, it was more helpful to show the kid’s live video image.