Putting Kids First: Designing Products Families Can Trust at FOSI 2026

The best products for children do more than keep them safe. They help kids learn, grow, and make sense of the world around them, and they earn the confidence of the families who bring them home. That kind of trust gets built into a product long before it ever reaches a child, shaped by countless design decisions most people never see. In this conversation, hosted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, makers from Amazon Kids, Sesame Street, and LeapFrog talk about how they actually do the work. Panelists get into what it really takes to design with children rather than just for them, how developmental and learning science shapes the choices behind a product, and where the trust parents feel actually comes from. You’ll walk away with a clearer sense of what it means to build learning products that are genuinely worthy of kids and the families who rely on them.

November 29, 2026 – 1:50 – 2:10 PM