

As a visual discovery platform, we have an opportunity and responsibility to do a better job of increasing representation in the products we build. Pinterest’s Head of Inclusive Product Annie Ta said: “Our mission on the Inclusive Product team is to help everyone feel like Pinterest is a place for them.

This new technology builds on Pinterest’s industry-first inclusive product feature skin tone ranges first launched in 2018. coily, curly, protective) in over 500 million images on its platform. Pinterest has detected a hair pattern (e.g. Over the coming weeks, Pinterest said its users, known as Pinners, can search for a broad hair term like “summer hairstyles”, “glam hair”, or “short hair” and narrow their results by selecting one of the six hair patterns to find hair inspiration that is most relevant to their style and preference. Through “computer vision-powered object detection”, the hair pattern search enables people to refine hair searches by six different hair pattern types: protective, coily, curly, wavy, straight and shaved/bald. Pinterest has launched an “inclusive beauty search” feature that enables users to search for hair inspiration with Black, Brown and Latinx people in mind.
