Designing for Kids by Mathilda Engman / Toca Boca

We hosted Mathilda Engman, artist and designer at the Swedish play studio Toca Boca, for a talk on designing digital products for children at Mesh.

Engman, a 2006 Hyper Island graduate with more than ten years of experience making interactive work, joined Toca Boca early on. She set the visual direction for ten apps as Lead Artist, starting with Toca Tea Party in 2011, later became Studio Lead Artist and then started the company's consumer products department.

She presented Toca Boca's history and philosophy, how the team designs apps together with children, and the company's design principles. Toca Boca describes its products as play for its own sake, without rules, levels or set outcomes. At the time the studio had released 30 apps with more than 100 million downloads.

Speakers

• Mathilda Engman, Artist and designer, Toca Boca — Designing for Kids

The original event page is on meetup.com.