You make the apps your child already uses easier to use — and they can literally point at your work.
How this is different: This isn't a book where your child pretends to be a ux designer. It's the book where your child finally understands what you actually do.
This personalized book turns wireframes, user research, and endless iterations into a story about making things simple for other people, with a payoff your child can tap on.
What ux designers actually do all day
Watch real people try to use something and note where they get stuck
Sketch and prototype a simpler version
Test it again, and keep cutting steps until it feels obvious
Hand the design to engineers and answer questions while it gets built
How to explain a ux designer's job to a child
If your child is 3 or 4
UX designers make apps easier to use. They watch people get confused, then change the buttons and screens so it is simple enough for anyone to figure out.
If your child is 5 to 7
A UX designer figures out how an app or website should work. They watch real people use it, find where they get stuck or give up, then redesign those screens and test the new version.
The tools kids find interesting
Design software
Sticky notes
Prototypes
Recorded user tests
Whiteboard
What a child would notice at a ux designer's work
A parent who criticizes every confusing machine
Drawings of screens before any code
Strangers being watched using an app
What kids learn from a WorkTale Book Company book about ux designers
Every WorkTale book closes with two pages no name-swap personalized book has. First, a "So, what does Mommy, Daddy, or your grown-up do?" page that distills the parent's entire job into one plain-spoken line a child can recite from memory, with no jargon and no job description. Then an "About the Author" page with the parent's real photograph, name, job title, and a short biography blurb, so the illustrated hero is revealed as the real person the child knows. Why the parent is the hero.