DiceS2025

Dice is a mobile cooking app for children ages 6-10 that brings Montessori-inspired philosophy to life through step-by-step recipes, simple visuals, and interactive activities.
UI/UX Design
Pro

With studies showing that over half of school-aged children (6-14) exceed two hours of daily screen time since the COVID-19 pandemic (Zhou et al., 2023), Dice reframes technology use as an opportunity to provide meaningful, hands-on engagement rather than passive consumption.

Breaking down the cognitive load

By breaking complex skills into simple steps, using engaging characters, and encouraging caregiver co-play, Dice makes cooking fun and approachable while building children’s confidence and practical abilities. Dice streamlines the learning experience, using simple visuals as a universal language across cognitive levels. More challenging skills are introduced through age-appropriate activities, guiding learners toward more advanced recipes.

Ensuring brand consiste

Children form parasocial bonds with characters, which supports engagement and comprehension. Dice features 6 different characters that take advantage of color and shape associations kids form at a young age to guide children through the recipes.

Happy

Happy encourages kids when faced with challenging new learning techniques. Acts to break-up difficult tasks and keep excitment up.

Lucky

Similar to Happy, but Lucky has a bit more ambition associated with him. Drives kids to strive for success and completion of tasks.

Yummy

Yummy is useful when introducing kids to new dietary horizons. Yummy helps fight against picky eating habit and instead foster curiosity.

Quirky

Kids may feel uneasy or uncomfortable during the learning process; Quirky understands that. Quirky makes sure kids don’t feel alone in this.

Wary

Wary is the preliminary to Snappy. He helps guides kids through topics that are more serious, advanced, and focuses on objectives.

Snappy

Snappy is for the most challenging lessons. Certain tasks inevitablly will be too dangerous for kids, Snappy ensures adult supervision.