April 2021: Designing a gaming platform for kids, with Carina Ngai

To design for kids, we need to apply inclusive design principles. This is a population that is still developing their verbal and written skills. I will discuss how we explore the topic of trust and safety, how we allow kids to explore different identities via avatars and social play. We are envisioning a new form of social playground with new social interactions that are inclusive and diverse. I will also share insights from designing in the gaming space, and how designers translate research insights into actionable for products.

About Carina Ngai

Carina Ngai has been a designer in UX / Product / Research, specialized in finding product-market fit for new product categories, and emerging technologies. For the last 2 years, she has been the product design manager at Roblox, a popular social gaming platform for kids, leading the player experience design team.

Carina’s design portfolio spans across many domains in the industry such as gaming, augmented reality, education, marketplace, creation tools, data and privacy. Among them were Google, Netflix, Samsung, and Adobe. She is also active in the design community and often speaks about the practice of design research and inclusive design in various design conferences.

Note that this will be a live streaming event. For what I hope are obvious reasons we won’t be sitting together in a physical space!

Please register for this free event

April 29 2021
5:30pm ET
Live streamed to wherever you are!