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Announcing the 2026 Well-Being by Design Fellowship: Empowering Designers to Help Children Thrive

by Sarah Jacobstein
September 15, 2025

Over the past two years, we’ve had the privilege of supporting two incredible cohorts of Well-Being by Design Fellows—talented designers reimagining digital experiences that capture children’s attention while centering their

Panel at IDC 2025: Innovating Digital Play: Partnership for research-driven industry impact

by Administrator
June 10, 2025

The goal of this panel is to present a research and industry design deployment collaboration, in designing digital play for children’s well-being. The panel will share processes, learnings, and ideas moving forward,

Into the Digital Future: Designing Children’s Digital Play for Well-Being with Shuli Gilutz

by Laura Higgins and Jordan Shapiro
November 19, 2024

In this episode of Into the Digital Future, Shuli Gilutz speaks with Jordan Shapiro and Laura Higgins about the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) initiative, led by The

October Highlights from Michael Preston

by Michael Preston
October 22, 2024

Dear Friends,Happy October! The best month, in my opinion—although are we tired of pumpkin spice yet?First things first: we were thrilled to see so many applications to our Well-Being by

Call for Applications: Well-Being by Design Fellowship 2025

by Sarah Jacobstein
September 6, 2024

The Call for Applications is now open through October 11, 2024. If you follow our work, you may have seen the incredible results produced by our inaugural cohort of Well-Being

Bringing RITEC Learnings to Life and Putting them into Practice

by Sarah Jacobstein
July 16, 2024

During the week of the 2024 Games for Change Festival, the Cooney Center had the privilege of helping to organize a series of events to bring the Responsible Innovation in

Well-Being by Design Fellowship: Call for Applications

by Medha Tare
September 13, 2023

The Call for Applications period has closed. Please learn about our Fellows here!The Cooney Center is excited to announce our new Well-being by Design Fellowship, supported by Pinterest. We invite

Let Kids Wonder, Question, and Make Mistakes: How the Designers of Children’s Technology Think about Child Well-being

by Rotem Landesman, Jenny Radesky, and Alexis Hiniker
August 1, 2023

Along with rolling heat waves, rising gas prices, and the occasional new social media site, the recent news cycle has been dominated by commentary on the potential risks, harms, and

Child Rights by Design: New Guidance for Innovators of Digital Products That May Impact Children

by Sonia Livingstone and Kruakae Pothong
July 6, 2023

How can we design the digital world in the best interests of children? What principles should guide innovators of digital products and services that may impact children’s lives? In the

The Cooney Center’s Next 15 Years and Beyond

by Michael Preston
May 17, 2023

Years ago, when I was a lowly graduate research intern crunching data in Sesame Workshop’s content research department, I saw firsthand the great care with which the organization created high-quality

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