SOLUSI DESAIN APLIKASI ABC EXPLORER UNTUK MENGENALKAN SUKU KATA PADA ANAK USIA DINI MENGGUNAKAN UX JOURNEY

4 - 6 years is the most appropriate developmental stage for a child's future life because children's brains develop rapidly and they absorb information and learn new skills more easily so that early childhood education provides an excellent opportunity to build a solid foundation for cognitive development, language, social and emotional children. The syllabic method is a method where teaching reading begins with the introduction of words that are combined into syllables, then the syllables are combined, and finally the words are formed into sentences. In the field of literacy, one of the first steps taken is to improve literacy skills from an early age, starting with the introduction of letters using the syllable learning method. The ABC Explorer application is a children's reading application that is easy to understand with several guidelines. With several syllable methods that can be configured according to the child's wishes and imagination, and equipped with reading features, writing features and singing features, these features can make it easy for children to learn to read, practice singing so that children can practice how to write by looking at the examples provided. . This research uses the UX journey method as the appropriate method to meet the needs of this research, namely analyzing software needs and designing solutions for implementing an early childhood education system which is implemented using the UX journey method to solve educational problems. The result of this research is to produce an interactive design to introduce syllables to young children aged 4 - 6 years so that they can understand the likes of words that influence the child's future growth and development.