Create this feedback confidence loop as quickly as possible. Children are inherent designers, they’ll iterate over their creations. Get this feedback loop of imagining, shaping, touching.
Key teaching: create complex things out of simple shapes.
Insight: Gestures need to be supplemented with a physical tool.
“Imagine waving your arms around for 8 hours.” - Dushan
Insight: Problems of scale on screen.
“That looks way bigger than 4mm…” - Paal
Insight: Construct an environment or context that motivates the build. A tiny amount of gamification…
What’s hard about LDD (Lego Digital Design) is the blank slate. Special bricks e.g. minifigs are the inspiration for creations. Minecraft and carefully constructed guidance and goals. Limit amount of tools until they push the boundaries, then allow them to break through the boundaries. With Minecraft everyone starts at the same level. - Sid
Opportunity: A platform that helps kids share and teach others 3d modeling.
Have the platform allow users to teach - sharing knowledge is fun and important and pushes kids to do more. Share not just the model but how it was made. - Sid
Opportunity: Immortalize kids’ creations via 3d printing.
90% of the kids don’t like destroying their creations, they don’t break their construction apart in order to build again. - Sid