Design Challenge 2 - What is my Kid playing?

For the second Design challenge we have to create a mobile app design. Even though we are in groups we each have to come up with an idea then bring them together and decide with is our favourite.

My idea was an app for parents to quickly find information about video games their children are playing. Today children getting their hands on MA or R rated games isn't as big of an issue as it used to be but it still happens, especially as the average person is trying to do more and become busier. Only recently has Australia added an R rating to video games and whilst this was to create a better rating system, most people simply think of this as allowing extremely violent video games into the country.

Storyboard

The system was going to be pretty straight forward. A main page with the latest and most violet games to look out for along with links to the video game information pages. The video game page itself will have the name, pictures (e.g cover image, screen shots of questionable content ect.), game synopsis, ESRB rating and description of the rating, why the game got that rating and reviews of the game by users and professionals in the field. Users will have their own profile page with what they've reviewed along with other standard information. Trusted reviewers or people within the industry can have their own symbol to identify themselves as such.

The target audience will be parents of young children. The average age of women having their first child is 29 with 21.4% being over 35 years old. the average age of children starting to use electronic gadgets has fallen to 6.5. adding that onto the age of the first time parents makes for a target audience of 30-40.

The target user can find this very useful if they have a child who likes to play video games but the parents don't have enough time to research the games themselves.

May be ideal fir parents who feel the need to find information about their child's online content and whether or not what they're viewing is safe for them.