My goal was to interview Adam (not his real name) in a show-and-tell fashion. I asked questions like “Show me that app. How does it work? When did you get it?\u00a0 How did you hear about it? Why do you like it?”<\/p>\n
Sitting on his bed with his stuffed Uglydoll, a few science books and his mom’s iPad, Adam took me through his apps.\u00a0 First the Games folder, then Games II folder, then we did a web search in Safari for “Science facts for kids ” but interestingly enough he typed his query into the iPad search bar, not by going to the Safari app. At the very end, I asked him to draw two pictures for me – one of what he liked and one of what he disliked about his mom’s iPad and this is what I got:<\/p>\n – Ownership isn’t an issue.<\/strong>\u00a0 Although the iPad is his mom’s, with her Notes app filled with important data, they don’t bump into any ownership issues… at least not yet.<\/p>\n – The iPod Touch can’t compete with the iPad.<\/strong>\u00a0 His iPod Touch is brand spanking new and yet he still prefers to play Angry Birds, Mr Giggles and Call of Atlantis on the iPad because “it’s more fun on a bigger screen”.<\/p>\n – His mom is his discovery mechanism.<\/strong>\u00a0 His classmates and younger brother don’t tell him about cool new apps, he learns about games from his mom.\u00a0 He doesn’t go exploring in the app store or the web for cool new games or apps for kids, although he easily could based on his web searching capabilities.<\/p>\n And just like most adults, he doesn’t know what he wants.\u00a0 The iPad is doing everything he wants it to do, and he can’t imagine what more it could do for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Christmas, my 9 and 6 year-old cousins each got an iPod Touch.\u00a0 Small computing devices aren’t new to them — they’ve spent the last 6 months playing Angry Birds … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/ux\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a> So after we spent 30 minutes walking through the apps he uses, which were just games and Photobooth, he showed me all the other capabilities of the iPad.\u00a0 “You can even use it as an iPod.”\u00a0 However when we looked at iTunes there was no music to be found.\u00a0 He admitted that he doesn’t listen to any music on it, but he wanted to make sure that I knew the device could<\/em> do such things.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/userresearch\/files\/2012\/01\/user3-drawing-300x224.jpg\" "\\"user3-drawing\\"")
<\/a>I laughed to myself.\u00a0 What did I really expect him to draw for me?<\/em>\u00a0 Then I decided that his answer made perfect sense.\u00a0 His drawing along with our interview made me realize:<\/p>\n