Care belongs in the product.
In the words, the tap targets, the unlocks, the saved pictures and all the small moments nobody sees in a feature list.
A note from Sean
Why this exists.
There is a particular kind of attention you bring to something when you are making it for your own child. You notice the small rough edges, the moments that ask for too much attention and the details that could feel simpler. You ask different questions.
That is the heart of Made By Dad. It is not meant to feel homemade in the unfinished sense. It is meant to feel made with the kind of care that does not clock off when the feature technically works.
The first app is a colouring book because colouring is wonderfully simple. A child understands it immediately. They choose, try, undo, fill, decorate and return. My job was to keep that familiar feeling, then use technology only where it genuinely helps.
I wanted the creative space to disappear into a child's hands, while every grown-up part remained easy for a parent to understand. If it feels joyful to the child and considered to the parent, Made By Dad is doing what it was made to do.
Sean
The dad in Made By Dad
