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Navigating the Discovery Phase
Kicking off a big design project? Ashley shares tips and tricks for the all-important discovery phase.
Performance Cards: Designing with Meaning and Empathy
Challenge the way you think and serve access-constrained users with these cards.
Assessing Constraints: Making Products for all Users
The team behind Spotify Lite created this tool to ensure they're building products for the people around the world who face technological challenges.
Designing Data Science Tools at Spotify: Part 2
Carry on learning about what it takes to build usable, well-designed tools to help data scientists transform raw data into valuable insights.
An All-Inclusive Figma Template for Your Next Remote Design Sprint
Browse the template Senior Product Designer, Alexandria Goree, uses to plan and execute a fully remote design sprint.
Measuring, Defining and Improving Productivity: 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.
Scorecards: Creating Alignment Throughout the Process
Our Scorecards tool was created by some Principal Designers on Spotify's Premium R&D team to help keep everyone aligned and projects moving forward.
Designing Data Science Tools at Spotify: Part 1
A product designer explains how she built usable, well-designed tools to help data scientists transform a mass of raw data into valuable insights.
Investigating Consequences with Our Ethics Assessment
A self-service tool by Spotify’s Ethics Guild to help teams investigate ethical questions when developing a product or service.
Listen: Where Audio and Design Meet
Get acquainted with the audio hero of Spotify Design, the Listen hub, and learn how we’re bringing our global design community together through music.
How to Lead a Remote Design Sprint
Learn how a Spotify design sprint stayed focused and on track—even during a global pandemic.
All Glown Up! How We Made Over Spotify.Design
In part two of our Spotify Design rebrand extravaganza, we take a closer look at how, with our new brand in hand, we made over our webspace.
Happy to Help: How We Design for Customer Support
Explore three design principles created to make sure people can get the help they need, when they need it.
Introducing Spotify’s New Design Principles
Design principals talk design principles. Here’s how we aim to make Spotify feel Relevant, Human, and Unified.
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.
How Spotify Organises Work in Figma to Improve Collaboration
We've opened up the music box and described how we've shaped the tool to suit our needs and culture at Spotify.
Audio-Forward UX: Meeting Listeners Where They Are
Spotify’s experience isn't defined or constrained by the bounds of a smartphone screen, and neither are our design and user research practices.
Simultaneous Triangulation: Mixing User Research & Data Science Methods
Next time you have a complex research question, consider using this 3-step process to mitigate blind spots and turn discrepancies into opportunities.
Using Service Design to Create Better, Faster, Stronger Designers
How our Premium team uses Service Design strengthens designers and help them make faster, better decisions in moments that matter.
Think Global, Act Local
Discover from our Global Insights Team how they help Spotify travel all over the world—without getting lost in translation.
Designing on the Road and Finding Inspiration in New Markets
Local knowledge is everything when expanding into new markets. Here's how we build empathy, understand our audience, and find inspiration worldwide.
The Story of Spotify Personas
How we developed our personas tool, how we use it today, and why it’s so useful for an autonomous, cross-functional organisation like Spotify.
Bringing Spotify to India—and Beyond
Explore with us how the collaboration of design and insights plays a lead role in expanding our global reach in the first of a three-part series.
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