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Alexis Bardini
FABA+ by Alexis Bardini with FINH

Product & toy design for kids

Toys and tech for curious kids: screen-free speakers, AI field guides, a Braille robot and headphones they build themselves.

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Trusted by FABA, ZigZag, Kano Computing, Moonbug (Cocomelon), Gimi

ZigZag Go, shown blurred while the project is confidential
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ZigZag

An AI exploration device for kids and their little adventures

Ash AI Pokedex open, showing bee recognition on screen
ASH

AI Pocket Field Guide

FABA+ speaker held in a child's hands
FABA+

An interactive, screen-free audio player for kids 3+

LUII open-source Braille learning tablet for kids, by Alexis Bardini
LUII

Learning Braille made easy

Yarn family app and Tangible AI kit
Yarn

Tangible AI for small storytellers with big imaginations

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Nova Stories
Nova Stories

A magical jukebox of stories from your imagination

Child holding the Ash AI Pokedex outdoors, photographing a dandelion
The Creator Candy headphones assembled, pink and mint against a plain ground
FABA+ speaker, a screen-free audio player for kids with a big red play button
LUII open-source Braille learning tablet for kids, industrial design by Alexis Bardini
Creator Candy headphones, the Kibu × DIY colourway, laid out in parts
Top view of the LUII Braille board, its magnetic dots, dial and read button
Nova brand statement: a magical jukebox of stories from your imagination
Ash AI Pokedex, an AI pocket field guide by Alexis Bardini and FINH
ZigZag Go, shown blurred while the project is confidential
Yarn Tangible AI storytelling kit, strategy and design by Alexis Bardini and FINH
A child holding a phone, listening to a NOVA story
Yarn magazine, weaver map, character cards and the Yarn app on a phone
FABA+ speaker packed in a child's suitcase with headphones and toys

Questions

What does designing a product for kids involve?
Designing for how children actually play and learn: controls small hands can work on their own, sturdy materials, and an experience parents trust. FABA+ is a screen-free player kids aged 3 and up use independently; ASH is an AI field guide built around curiosity.
Can you take a kids' product from idea to manufacture?
Yes. Projects run from research and early prototypes through industrial design, the app and the brand, to design for manufacture, as with FABA+ and the Kibu × DIY headphones, which are printed on demand and assembled as orders come in.
Do you design the app and brand as well as the hardware?
Yes, usually together, so the object, the app and the brand feel like one thing. FABA+ covered industrial, interaction and app design; ZigZag Go covers industrial, interaction, brand and digital design.
How does a project start?
With a 15-minute call about what you're building. Book one through Start something.

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Products for children across hardware, toys, apps and brand: tactile, safe and built to be played with, from first sketch to the shelf.

Based in London, working anywhere. Partner at FINH.

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Services

  • Industrial Design
  • Hardware & Connected Devices
  • Prototyping & Model Making
  • Packaging & CMF
  • Design for Manufacture
  • AI & Generative Interfaces
  • UX / UI Product Design
  • Branding & Direction

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