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Making Moves: Designing Motion for 2022 Wrapped

Simple brief, complex executions: UX Motion Designer Ade shares his journey on bringing 2022 Wrapped’s data stories to life.

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Designing for the World: An Introduction to Localization

Our in-house experts give insights into how localization works at Spotify and offer pointers for your own design considerations.

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From Web Page to Web Player: How Spotify Designed a New Homepage Experience

Senior Product Designer Alexandria Goree walks us through the design process of making over Spotify’s homepage.

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Performance Cards: Designing with Empathy and Meaning

Challenge the way you think and serve access constrained users with these cards.

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Finding your T-Shape as a Generalist Designer

In the first installment of an interview series, two designers reflect on life as a generalist at Spotify and the career path that led them here.

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Refreshing our Icon System: the why and how behind the changes

Learn how and why our design systems team refreshed the icons you see when you use Spotify.

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Better in black: Rethinking our most important buttons

If there’s one button you use every time you open Spotify, it’s the play button.

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The Design Productivity Blueprint

The Design Productivity Blueprint helps people with a stake in design output ensure designers spend their time on high-value work.

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Ask Spotify Design 02

In the second Ask Spotify Design our team offers a perspective on your design dilemmas.

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Designing Data Science Tools at Spotify

A product designer explains how she built usable, well-designed tools to help data scientists transform a mass of raw data into valuable insights.

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5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Starting a Design System at Spotify

Tyce Clee wants to give you the benefit of his hindsight by sharing the 5 things he learned while building Encore.

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Making the Brand: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Meet the creatives and hear the story behind this year’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AAPIHM) campaign.

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Bringing the Spotify Heart to Life

Discover how we designed and implemented a new micro-interaction for our heart icon.

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From Gut to Plan: The Thoughtful Execution Framework

Annina Koskinen presents a framework she’s developed to help her teams at Spotify reach their goals and ship with impact.

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Making the Brand: Redesigning Spotify Design

We partnered with designers to design a design brand that helps designers showcase their design work to an audience of… (wait for it) ...designers.

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Spotify Design

Spotify Design are a cross-disciplinary product design community.

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Illustrating for Spotify with Jarom Vogel

In this article, our guest author will walk you through the step-by-step of creating the illustrations featured on our Spotify for Podcasters page.

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Reimagining Design Systems at Spotify

How we build design systems that fit our culture of autonomy.

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Dialling up the joy, turning down the pain: Design Ops at Spotify

My first year of heading up design ops at Spotify is nearly complete.

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Designing for Tomorrow - A Discussion on Ethical Design

Ethical design is something we're spending more and more time thinking about at Spotify.