🎙️Redefining Screen Time with Esther Huybreghts & Melissa Cash

On today's episode, we get to chat with the creative powerhouses, Esther Huybreghts and Melissa Cash. Driven by the need for good alternatives to overwhelming, addictive children's apps saturating the market, they set out to create an experience that parents could feel good about handing to their kids. They made the thing they needed, and Pok Pok was born — the Apple Design Award-winning preschool app. We are obsessed.

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Tune in to hear us talk about:

🌀 Esther's and Melissa's early experiences with play and creativity.

🛝 The origins of Pok Pok - making the thing you want to see in the world.

❤️ Creativity as a tool for surviving post-partum depression.

🔎 Naming the concerns and stigmas around screen time.

🐣👵 The importance of play from infancy to adulthood.

🥱 The value of boredom.

🪄 Striving for access and inclusion in design.

🪀 The difference between a toy and a game.

📱 Escaping the dopamine cycle we get from screens.

We would love to hear from you! What are your screen time woes and triumphs? How has play evolved for you over the course of your life?

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