As Pinterest celebrates 15 years, Gen Z, and especially teens, is our fastest growing demographic. Young people tell us it feels like a “safe corner of the internet.”
But why? What’s going into that feeling of calm and sense of open exploration that happens while browsing and saving to Pinterest? Believe it or not, a lot.
At Pinterest, we prioritize “designing the good in” rather than simply “keeping the bad out.” And in an ongoing mental health crisis marked with fragmented attention spans, doomscrolling, and comparison, Pinterest has been scaffolding guardrails to build a future friendly platform that actually improves wellbeing rather than depletes it.
Join us for an interactive session to learn about the science of inspiration and its impact on wellbeing and moreover, what you can do to “design the good in” to your own practice.
SPEAKERS:
Minnie Bredouw is a Principal & Creative Director at Pinterest leads many of the wellbeing initiatives across Pinterest ranging from teen experience, user education, the future of social, and beyond. She also founded Big Wonder, an edtech product focused on helping teens find purpose amidst the mental health crisis. Her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, SXSW, and Bloomberg, to name a few. In her spare time, she teaches Design for Social Impact and Design for Inclusion at the graduate level.