Research On Educational Mobile Application Design For Preschool Children Based On User Experience

With the rapid development of mobile Internet and the popularity of mobile intelligent terminals,mobile application has gradually become the main carrier of information communication and service.Mobilephones are not only new toys for children,but also a new tool for extracurricular learning.In the future,both school and family education will tend to digital education.China has a huge population of children at present,more and more young parents are beginning to pay attention to the early education of children.The development potential of the education application market for preschool children is enormous.Preschool age is the key period for children to develop good learning and lifestyle,and it is also the main stage of character formation in intelligence,emotion,personality and quality.Excellent educational mobile applications for preschool children can be used as a new way for preschool children to enlighten,teach,cultivate their thinking and interests.This paper takes the educational mobile applications for preschool children as the starting point.Based on the user experience theory and through the analysis of preschool children's physiological,psychological,cognitive and behacioral development characteristics,combined with the analysis of outstanding cases,the design strategies of educational mobile application for preschool children is explored,expecting to promote the development of educational mobile applications for preschool children and strive to improve the learning literacy of preschool children.First,based on the research of user experience theory,combined user experience elements,mobile application design,STEAM concept,emotional three levels and flow theory.Taking preschool children as the target users,using the literature and case analysis,this paper explores the development status and existing problems of educational mobile applications for preschool children,also to propose future development trends.Second,according to the physiological,psychological,cognitive and behavioral development characteristics of preschool children,the qualitative and quantitative analysis of target users and their parents' use of shadow following observation,one-to-one interviews and other forms are carried out,summarizing the needs and expectations of parents and children for educational mobile application of preschool children.On this basis of investigation and research,combined with the five levels of user experience,this paper summarizes the design strategies that need to be paid attention to at each level when designing preschool children's educational mobile application.Finally,according to the guidance of design strategies,from the perspective of design practice,I participated in the creation of the “Aishougong” APP V2.0 version,mainly responsible for market research,competitive analysis,information architecture,interaction and visual design.The APP aims to provide professional digital education products for preschool children,stimulate preschool children's exploration of new things and artstic expression,so as to cultivate children's ability to observe,express,hands-on and creative.In addition,this design can also be regarded as a concrete verification of the preschool children's educational mobile application design proposed in the article.