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Parents of children of preschool age are often challenged in finding ideas for activities to stimulate the growth and development for their children through playing. An advantage for parents in the modern and also digital era is they are closer to information on parenting and ideas for childrens play activities through parenting mobile applications which are easily downloaded from application marketplace platforms such as Googles Play Store. Out of many parenting-themed mobile applications that available in the market, one of the prominent ones is Chais Play. Developed by experts of childrens growth and development and designers who understand the preschool childrens play activities, and presented in visually attractive illustrations, Chais Play is now an "Editors Choice" and has been downloaded for over 100,000 times on Play Store. Using qualitative method through structured interview with experts on childrens growth and development and users of Chais Play, supported with literature study, this research is conducted to analyze the function of illustrations on the user interface of Chais Play to convey information on preschool childrens play activities to stimulate their growth and development to the parents.