2019-02-05 spotify.designA Discussion on Ethical DesignCompanies are starting to realise how much damage has been done to labor markets, privacy, and mental health – and look at how to do things differently going forward.
2020-07-06 spotify.designThe Thoughtful Execution FrameworkTo change the mindset of jumping too quickly into one solution, we realized that we should remind our teams of the necessary steps in a thoughtful product development process. And that presenting those steps in a tree structure would encourage them to follow the steps in order. We wanted to lead them to go wide in problem identification and hypothesis creation before zooming into a single solution. We named it the Thoughtful Execution tree.
2021-06-04 spotify.designBetter in Black: Rethinking our Most Important ButtonsWhen we tried using black for our foreground color, we measured a contrast ratio of 10.9:1 with Spotify green — an enormous improvement for the legibility of any text or icons.