A few months ago I mentioned we are designing an installation for the Austin Children's Museum, and that we wanted the interface to appeal to girls as well as boys. (The program gathers visitors stories about their creations in "Tinkerer's Workshop" and is running in conjunction with the upcoming Maker Faire). You might want to take a look at some of the design considerations that arose as we pondered this.
Here was our first draft of the recording screen:
An attractive screen, but in view of the considerations above, we wanted to show girls (and boys) enjoying making things, so included a slide show of about 5 images that appears before the video window. This is the first of those slides:
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