Larkin Brown
Larkin Brown — Sr. Director Product Research at Pinterest. Talks and sessions delivered at UXDX.
Sr. Director Product Research
Larkin Brown is Senior Director of Product Research at Pinterest, where she leads global research initiatives that shape growth, engagement and creator experiences. Over more than a decade at Pinterest, she has built and led mixed-methods research teams, guided product strategy across Core, Growth, Content and Monetisation, and delivered insights that have defined the company’s evolution.
Larkin’s background spans qualitative research, behavioural insights and strategic storytelling, with earlier roles at Google and Northwestern University’s SONIC Lab.
Past talks
2 talks · 1 eventQ&A Deep Dive: Designing Human-Centered AI Products People Can Trust
AI products only succeed when they are useful, understandable, and grounded in real human needs. In this Q&A deep dive, Kent Eisenhuth, Anya Gerasimchuk, and Larkin Brown will help you explore how leading teams are building AI experiences that balance innovation with clarity, trust, and strong design principles, with plenty of space for you to ask direct questions and dig into the practical realities behind the work. Kent will share how data visualization can make generative AI experiences more intuitive, informative, and human-centered. Anya will bring the healthcare perspective, showing how AI can reduce administrative burden, improve productivity, and support better outcomes while still operating within strict constraints around trust, compliance, and data. Larkin will show how Pinterest is combining UX research, design leadership, and generative AI to create visual experiences that keep human insight at the center. Together, they will unpack how you can design AI experiences that are not only technically impressive, but genuinely usable, trustworthy, and valuable. Come ready to raise your questions, test your assumptions, and get into the detail of what actually works when building human-centered AI products.
Bridging Human Insight and AI: How Pinterest Builds Visual Experiences That Connect
As AI reshapes how we search, shop, and create, Pinterest’s design-led teams are redefining what it means to stay human in the loop. Larkin Brown shares how UX research and design leadership at Pinterest anchor innovation in user empathy while harnessing generative AI to amplify, not replace, human understanding. Outcomes: - Learn how to integrate generative AI into design workflows without losing connection to real users - Discover collaborative practices that unite research, design, and engineering around shared insights - Explore case studies from Pinterest Assistant and visual search innovation - Gain strategies to navigate ethical and practical challenges in human-AI interaction