Spotify Design Crew
To showcase our band members, every so often we put a Spotifier within the limelight. Right this moment’s headliner is Ashley Moody (she/her), Product Designer II for Advert Efficiency Platform in New York. Put in your headphones, hit play, and skim alongside!
Questions & Solutions
Why are you a designer?
I’m a designer as a result of I get pleasure from a problem — particularly challenges based mostly on real-world human experiences. Having the ability to create one thing that makes somebody really feel extra seen as a human in a digital expertise retains me motivated.
Describe your job at Spotify with out utilizing the phrases “design” or “designer”.
After they consider adverts, most individuals really feel overwhelmed, interrupted, or aggravated. I attempt to easy out the friction by making adverts at Spotify really feel straightforward, harmonious, and non-disruptive.
What would your self-portrait seem like?
Who would you wish to collaborate with and what would you make collectively?
My associates! I’ve been fortunate to have met so many proficient folks of all inventive disciplines from world wide and even luckier to name them associates. I’d like to work on some tremendous mega mission with all of them. A multi-faceted marketing campaign that will spotlight all the abilities and cultures: vogue design, print design, music, video, and experiential design throughout a number of continents. Yuri Ogita (@coloured_publishing), Mathilde Terrasse (@openneverempty), Kristian Henson (@kristian_henson), John Sampson (@john.sampson), Nicole Killian (@___nico___fontana___, Chino Amobi (@chinoamobi).
Inform us a few detour you took in your route into design.
I went to high school for graphic design and went by way of a program that allowed for experimentation and exploration of the boundaries of design, like design as sculpture and efficiency artwork. I assumed I used to be going to proceed down that path till I stumbled upon a UX internship earlier than I graduated, and 5 years later…
What’s one piece of design knowledge you’d give to your youthful self?
Cease making an attempt to determine what “good design” is.
Present us your comfortable place – someplace you go to recharge your inventive battery – and select a soundtrack to go along with it. Why right here?
Location: Virginia Seashore, Virginia
Soundtrack: TV On The Radio – Staring on the Solar
It’s scientifically confirmed that staring on the ocean alters our brainwave frequencies and places us in a extra meditative and artistic house. Going to the seashore for dawn is a particular routine for me to reset.
What are you enthusiastic about proper now?
The long run designers! I used to be fortunate sufficient to volunteer as a mentor in a program that empowers youngsters to study tech abilities to make significant change. It’s so thrilling to see center schoolers studying issues I didn’t study till I graduated faculty.
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Spotify Design Crew
We’re a cross-disciplinary group of people that like to create nice experiences and make significant connections between listeners and creators.