Cactus provides fun and creative craft tutorials for children, which is helpful for both children and parents.
All you need to complete our tutorials is recycled paper. Without purchasing any other materials. The intuitive tutorials include videos and 3D models that are designed for your children to easily complete. If your kids like to collect attractive stickers for completing craft projects, Cactus is perfect for them!
UX/UI Designer
Product Designer
Visual Designer
UX/UI Case Study
Product Design
Visual Design
Adobe XD
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Illustrator
2021.3-2022.12
Enhancing children's hand eye coordination and building levels of manual dexterity.
The different textures, colors and shapes can make their thoughts come to life.
Working with materials teaches them about colors, shapes and textures. How things work and how they fit together.
Art and craft activities can encourage children to take pride in their work, whether an individual work or a group work.
Research shows that paper and paperboard generated the most waste in the U.S. between 1960-2018.
As a result, I chose paper as the reused material for making crafts to better achieve the purpose of environmental protection.
From an Australian survey, Life during COVID-19: What we did during lockdown, 46% families more often did some art, craft and baking activities.
So I set my user audience to be parents and children, and let Cactus play a valuable role in family craft activities.
In 2020, 70% of children aged 5-10 liked art and craft activities, which is the second popular activity in England.
That means there's a big market for it worldwide.
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1.Please tell me something about you and your kids? Where do you live? What do you do?
2.Does your kid or you like to do some handmade things? How often does he/she do it?
3.What kind of project does your child like to do? What materials does he/she use?
4.Do you guide your child to do that or do it together? How do you guide them?
5.Where do you or your kids find the tutorial? 6.How do you feel about that platform?
7.When your child does crafts, will he/she follow the tutorial completely or do it by their own thoughts?
8.What problems have you encountered in making crafts? What problem do you want to solve most?
9.Do you know why your kid likes doing crafts?
10.What is his/her motivation?
11.Would you post your kids’ craft to your social media? What kind of comments do you like?
12.I’m designing an app called Cactus. Let’s take a look. What worked? What didn’t? What would you fix?
My son likes to search for some inspirations before making crafts.
I can use phone or laptop to search for tutorials by myself.
The students have their own ideas and wouldn’t totally follow my tutorials. That’s interesting.
When I finish a work, I will always share it on social media and get encouraged.
I prefer photo tutorials, because videos are too slow, and reading could be fast.
I prefer video tutorials because I can follow the process, and it’s more easy to understand.
The biggest problem with this process is that sometimes children can't follow the tutorial videos.
Most of my son's games reward points, and then he can buy equipment or decorations to decorate his account.
Children may not be interested in points, preferring to collect badges, stickers and other visual rewards.
I would not to post, but I‘d like to make comments to let someone know if I like something and ask questions.
Kids need inspirations and guidance.
Parents need alone time.
Lack of interactions.
Photo and video tutorials are not perfect.
Parents have to buy materials.
Environmental issue.
Search for the tutorials for toilet paper rolls and complete the tutorial for binoculars. Watch the tutorial in both video modes and 3D modes.
Post your kid’s craft, paper bee. The post is a tutorial which has 5 steps in video and 3D modes; also, a challenge that other users can accept.
Check your Daily Task, and accept the challenge of paper bee. Post your kid’s work and define the tutorial as easy.
