BACKGROUND

Spotify for Developer website represents Spotify publicly in the world’s developer community, and it is visited by millions every year.

But for many years, the site hadn’t gotten any updates and started to become old-fashioned in terms of style, structure, and tech stack. It simply doesn’t represent Spotify’s brand as an innovative and modern company anymore.

I was given the responsibility of making a complete makeover of developer.spotify.com as the only designer in a team of engineers and managers.

RESULT

The “matching highlight” UX of the API where the users can click on a line of reference to see its code sample, and click on the code sample to its corresponding reference is considered a revolutionary “wow feature“ in the industry, which had never been seen on developer portals before including Stripe, Apple, and Google.

The new developer portal won raving reviews from the community and an accessibility award.

“This is more welcoming to me, to be on the portal and feel like I am being taken care of. It endears me more to the API… You enriched and nourished something that should exist on every platform.“
– Lee Martin, Power User

“The old version is very pragmatic, but this is a joy to use!“
– Mark Koh, Machine Learning Engineer at Spotify

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