Dive summary:

• Sesame Street Workshop publishes website with “Best Practices Guide for Children’s App Development.”
• The non-profit organization found that children tend to hold mobile devices in landscape mode and are more likely to accidentally click an icon at the bottom of the screen.
• Applications with too many items that can be clicked on all the time make the application less effective to youth.

From the article:

… “In the storybook, we know that kids can often get distracted by all the bells and whistles,” says Mindy Brooks, director of education and research for Sesame Workshop. According to Brooks, developers can help mitigate the distractions by requiring the young reader to “listen to the full text on a page before the added features are enabled.” …