Touch Preview

Hey everyone, last week we launched a feature on iOS that will allow our users to discover and immerse into music the way it has always been meant to, with sound. We called it Touch Preview.

It’s a great example of how good ideas come out of initiatives such as the hack weeks we organise at Spotify, where everyone is able to come up with an idea and form a team to then build it. Many of these ideas actually become part of our roadmap and then shipped to our Users.

The increased attention to motion brought some new challenges to this project so we took a different approach to the whole Design process. Deliverables suddenly came in the form of animated videos and bezier curve values as opposed to mockups and graphical assets. This was somewhat unknown territory for most of us until this point and required us to adapt how we translate our ideas to be understood throughout the company.

Overall it’s been a super exciting project to be a part of and we’ll soon share some more details on the process and tools we used along the way. Let’s us know what you think.