How to craft engaging lesson slides?

Concerning the lesson slides, though we knew the UX process inside out and I had some previous experience of tutoring children, it took us a few failures to perfect the slides. A key factor to success was the ability to gain testing feedback from kids around the world. The UX research team ran regular trial lessons and kept us up to date with the feedback and findings. A good thing about children is their brutal honesty, if they don’t like a lesson they are not afraid to tell you so ;) Here's the lowdown on what we figured out:

Key learnings:

• Less Text, more Pictures: Reduce text on the slides to a minimum. Pictures speak louder than words - I designed some child friendly illustrations for this

• Speak Their Language: Describe complicated methods or ideas with metaphors that are familiar to the kids. For examples: Personas are a bit like Pokémon cards.

• Keep it Consistent: Use a consistent and repetitive language and lesson structure for the children to get used to the course more easily and make learning a habit

• No Tech Talk: Try to use terms that aren’t too technical and easy to understand or provide a definition that is logged into a vocabulary library and repeated at the start and end of each lesson to help memorizing

• Tell a story: Its much easier to indulge into a topic when telling a story, thus we wrapped the course into the story of Mr. Soto and his dog who like to travel and explore history