Crafts on SVT Barn

Concept design together with Project owner and UX designer from SVT. Graphical design together with graphic designer from SVT. Contributed in user testing together with UX designer from SVT, with children that visited SVT. The user tests provided a deeper undestanding about how children actively create meaning in their play and coloring. An example was when what I understood as a bug was understood as 'magic' by a kid.

Here is shown how the coloring book has been used on SVT Barn. Kids can draw, colorize, and stamp interactive stamps etc.

The goal has been to make coloring books easy to create and administrate. New pictures are added by vectorizing an ordinary bitmap picture with lineart. This is easily done with a click in Illustrator (the function live-paint). SVG pictures are then added to the specific coloring book. Editors can define available colors to use in a coloring book, both general colors for the whole coloring book and colors specific for one picture. In a similar manner the editor can also add animated stamps, such as rotating screws and bolts in a coloring book for the show Labyrint, or flying birds and bees for another coloring book. With insight in how the admininstrators work, I designed and created a flexible admin system used in order to handle the different functions in the coloring books.

Here you can try a simpler version of the one used on SVT Barn. Here SVG is used insted of Canvas in the background. Click on the green button with a left-arrow in order to find more pictures to paint :)