Helping parents make YouTube safer for their kids

UX & Product Project

Overview

I led the product design process in a series of Google Ventures-style design sprints for a platform to help parents curate YouTube content spaces for their kids. Allowing parents to select only content aligning with their values, ensuring a safer, more educational and more balanced viewing experience that doesn’t feed kids junk while encouraging positive screen habits and more mindful digital engagement.

Core team

4 people

My role

Lead UX & Product Designer

Methods

Storyboarding

User flows

User testing

Qualitative analysis

Tools

Figma

usertesting.com

Miro

Process

This project uses Google Ventures-style design sprint methods, with rapid design-learn cycles.

This approach minimises wasted dev-time while refining the design into something workable.

Overall impact

Evidenced in qualitative studies

High

perceived benefit by users, with low perceived burden

"Great!"

solve to participants concerns about kids consuming junk

5/5

participants ranked the updated product "Very useful".

Plan

The project was constrained by a limited budget, so we split 10 user test participants across two lean testing sprints to maximise learning.

Once the concept had been de-risked through testing, we moved on to building a proof of concept (PoC).

View this project with in-depth process & more via a guided Zoom presentation.

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