Mindy Brooks
UX Director, Google Play
Mindy is the Director of User Experience for Google Play and Google’s kids and family initiative. Her kids and family team focuses on designing technology that meets the needs of families around the world, and helps other teams understand developmental principles for families that help drive product design and vision. One such product is Family Link, Google’s parental control offering that helps families create healthy digital habits.
Mindy spent more than six years at Sesame Street, most recently as Director of Content and Innovation Research. She also was the first consumer insights researcher at Netflix to focus on kids and family. Mindy has a BA in Psychology and a MA in Applied Developmental and Educational psychology from New York University.