Inside The Redesign: Why Spotify Went Black

Spotify's new redesign makes it the movie theater of music apps. When the lights dim, the art becomes the experience. Michelle Kadir, director of product development at Spotify, walks us through its biggest redesign ever.

For devoted Spotify users, what the service offered in music selection, it lacked in the design department. The desktop client, especially, feels clunky, difficult, and overly complicated. There's way more clicking around than there has to be. But for the first time since its initial launch in 2006, Spotify has done a major design overhaul of its desktop and mobile clients, which will roll out to users starting today. It's a welcome change.

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