Spotify: TV and Car – The old emerging platforms

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We closed our spring 2016 season at Mesh with two designers from Spotify talking about TV and car systems as software platforms.

TV sets and cars have long manufacturing histories but a short history as platforms that developers build for. As software spreads into these industries, that is changing. Rob Nero, lead designer on Spotify's automotive team in Stockholm, worked on making Spotify in the car safe and easy to use for drivers and passengers; he had previously designed for auto and consumer electronics clients at agencies. Sam Thorne, lead designer for TV at Spotify, had spent five years as a senior designer at Sony Electronics, mainly on concept development.

Together they covered the history of these platforms, how that history shapes the design constraints, and how designers work within those constraints today.

Speakers

  • Rob Nero, Lead Designer, Automotive team, Spotify (Stockholm)
  • Sam Thorne, Lead Designer for TV, Spotify

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