Media platform · Case study project · 2025

Spotify Mobile Revamp

Connecting Friend Activity across devices and making shared listening easier to join.

Spotify mobile concepts arranged around the Spotify mark

Overview

Make listening feel more social

This concept reviews Spotify Desktop with a focus on social listening. People who want to listen together often rely on third-party tools such as Discord, leaving Spotify to coordinate playback elsewhere.

The proposal brings a Listen Along action into Spotify’s existing Friend Activity panel, extends activity to mobile, and refines key screens for a more consistent experience.

Spotify Desktop playlist with the Listening Activity panel highlighted — Spotify Desktop’s existing Listening Activity panel.

Discord activity card showing a friend listening to Spotify, with a Play on Spotify action — Discord offers a direct path back to Spotify.

Social listening gap

Friend Activity shows what people play, but there is no native way to join that session.

Inconsistent interface

Icons, typography, and spacing vary between screens, weakening the overall visual system.

Static discovery

Recommendations could connect more closely to the music and activity people are already exploring.

Goals

Keep the experience connected

The design direction focused on making social listening native to Spotify while keeping everyday discovery and navigation clear.

Listen together

Let people join a friend’s active session from Spotify Desktop.

Stay in the loop

Bring Friend Activity to mobile so social listening stays visible across devices.

Make it feel native

Improve hierarchy, icons, and spacing while keeping Spotify’s familiar visual language.

Design rationale

Make joining a natural next step

If a friend is listening now, make it easy to join from the place where that activity already appears.

Discord demonstrates the value of a visible, one-click listening action. This concept brings that action into Spotify’s existing Friend Activity panel, keeping discovery, playback, and shared listening in one product.

Listen Along on desktop

Join a friend’s active session directly from Friend Activity.

Friend Activity on mobile

See what friends are playing beyond the desktop app.

Refined desktop interface

Bring icons, type, and card hierarchy into a more consistent system.

Prototype

Explore the key screens and flows

The interactive Figma prototype covers Listen Along, mobile Friend Activity, and the refined Spotify experience.

This is a design concept. It has not shipped as a Spotify feature.

Show prototype

Spotify mobile home with friend activity and currently playing music — Home and listening activity

Spotify mobile search and music discovery screen — Search and discovery

Spotify mobile now playing screen — Now playing

Spotify mobile playlist screen — Playlist details

Listener profile

Outcome

A connected listening concept

The project produced an interactive concept for joining a friend’s listening session and following Friend Activity on mobile, alongside a visual refinement of Spotify Desktop.

Because this is a course concept and was not launched, there are no production adoption or performance results to report.