This project is to design a Operating System for children in a week. The brief of the project is, currently kids are using the original operating systems that comes with smartphones. We need a better solution for the operating system which makes its appealing, easy and secure for children to use smartphones.

In Design Sprint, Sprint was opened on Monday and will closed on Friday. Everyday we have to submit checklist by 11AM. 

On Monday, Sir given project brief and I done 

1. User research Survey

2. User research Interviews

3. General research

Now a days , kids were using parents smartphones but somewhere parents were worried giving their smartphones to kids because now and then we are listening or reading articles like a kid used his parents hardly earned 16 lakh rupees and made PUBG transactions, and also they were kids who are browsing adult content and also kids are getting addicted to smartphones.

Design a kids operating system which limits access to data, interesting interface to kids and it is 100% safe for kids to use it.

Let's point out pros and cons of kids using your smartphones.

                           Pros

1. Smartphones can give your kids better education opportunities.

2. Tutoring over phone becomes possible
3. You can instruct your kid with the help of smartphones
4. Learning about technology is important for your kid’s future.

                          Cons

1. Adult content is a problem on the web 2. Kids may no longer want to play outside

3. Privacy concerns
4. No control on using parents personal data.

5. May suffer with fraudulent actions.

Created set of questions in which we can know our user views and sent them to users and got responses as below​​​​​​​

For Interviews I called parents who have kids below 14 years, there opinions are as follows

Interview 1:

She is a mother of 11 years old kid , She told her kid was gaining knowledge especially in this covid difficult times and learning made easy. At the same time she is very afraid that her child was using unnecessary apps like Swiggy and ordering food without her knowledge. And also her kid was not able to respond while seeing the phone. She was telling that she needs to pay attention when her son was with smartphone.

Interview 2:

She is a mother of 4 year old kid , She told that she is keeping her kid engaged with the activities , animated rhymes and at the same time she is afraid that her kid was disturbing her important data in phone. She also told that searching good content for kids became tough we have to monitor for every video before giving to them.

Interview 3:

She is a mother of 9 year old kid , She told that she is keeping her kid engaged with the activities and told that her kid was improving his communication with the help of apps. She is afraid of giving her phone without her presence because of unnecessary content and always mentoring a kid when he was using phone is not a easy task.

In all the interviews, there is common pain point, they are not able to give smartphones without any worries. They are unable to monitor kids all the times. Security and Content availability also became main concerns.

The technology on your child’s wish list is powerful and fascinating and entertaining... and terrifying — especially if he has impulse-control and time-management problems. Smart, safe Internet use begins with a two-part process: educate your child about what it means to behave safely online, and put restrictions in place to guide him and also there are apps which supports

- Screen time limits 

- Location tracking
- Call and text monitoring 

- Social network supervision 

- Contact blocking 

- Emergency assistance

- Parents and kids using same operating system

- Even though you educate your kid we are not sure will that workout because your kid        may be too small to understand and remember things you told and also it depends on        age factors.

- For small kids there is no attracting interfaces.

- There is no security for kids to share information.

On Tuesday, I worked on 

1. Mindmap

2. Moodboards

3. Explanation of idea

1. When parent adds child as another user with their age, while a child unlock phone it          will take to their interfaces 

2. When child was using the phone, the location will be turned off.
3. All third party apps will not work

4. When child was trying to download a app, their parents who are using another

    phone will get a notification to allow it or not.
5. When a kid phone is switched off while using , parent will get a message.

6. Parents have ability to change screening time, after that screening time phone will be        locked and with the help of parent only he can unlock it again

7. Icons , colors and the information display were according to kids age. 

8. Include animation interactions.

On Wednesday, I worked on

1. Sketches 

2. Prototypes

3. Explanation of your solution

Mockup

On Thursday, I worked on

1. Target Group Feedbacks

2. Documentation 

3. Reflective analysis

TARGET GROUP FEEDBACKS​​​​​​​

I have sent the prototype and solution explanation to parent and got positive feedbacks

REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS​​​​​​​

By doing this project , I came to know the sprint process and able to finish checklist on time. I felt very nervous before starting but later I overcame that and able to complete it.

Prototype part is where I have been stuck and just created the basic screens due to lack of time. I learned how to adjust the things in the time. User research part was very interesting especially, knowing the user pain points and working on real time problem given me lot of satisfaction.