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This is Nicola, an Italian designer based in Stockholm.

I’m currently Associate Principal Designer at Spotify building the future of audio.

Before that, I’ve been Leading Design at Musixmatch, the world's largest lyrics provider for big players such as Google, Apple Music, Spotify, Instagram, Tidal and Amazon Music.

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In the spotlight

Spotify Takes Discovery to the Next Level

YEAR 2022
ROLE Design Lead on the vision
CONTENT DESIGN Aaron Harmon
PMs Anton Scheutz Godin (data scientist), Jo Mitchell

Recently worked on


Spotify Live (formerly Greenroom) • Brand and Integration of the future interactive audio experience

ROLE

A. Principal to Co-Lead on the acquisition, rebrand and integration.

DESIGN SYSTEM LEAD

David Owen Morgan

TALK FORMATS LEADS

Yaprak Gültay, Fabiano Souza, Daniela Estevez Fernandez, Sven Salmonsson

GREENROOM DESIGN TEAM

Travis Kane, Yoshiki Hisamoto

UX WRITER LEAD

Lee Ward


Hey Spotify…
Voice system design

CODENAME: JELLYFISH {Patent}

Role: Product Design Co-Lead Voice System Design
Voice System Lead: Aaron Harmon
Car Thing Design Leads: Barton Smith, Karl Humphreys


Spotify Video Podcast - Connect Fans to Creators With New Video Podcasts

Role: Design Lead on the Video Strategy
Designers: Jordi Parra, Laura D’have
PM: Lisa Brännfors


Spotify iOS 14 widget

Role: Design Co-Lead
Design System Lead: Mattias Johansson
PM: Rorey Jones


Spotify Lyrics Global Launch —
One of the most requested features from listeners across the globe

Role: Design Co-Lead on the vision
Leaders: Linnea Strid
Designers: Bertrand Rouault
PMs: Issra Omer, Rorey Jones


Spotify Player Redesign

Role: Design Lead

Previous experience

2012 — 2018

Previously

Head of Design at Musixmatch

Before Spotify, I rebranded and lead the Design Team at Musixmatch for 6 years.

My long-term mission was to set the vision and foundation of the Musixmatch Brand and Product Experience. Building the long-term vision of the product, alongside with founders, from startup to data company in the music industry.

Driven by innovation, velocity and quality, I led the product design team overall the product experiences. Responsible for creative direction, visual identity, user interface, and interaction.
Enhancing awareness of a centralised space for the community as the core of the app, with better access to contribution tools and guidelines, plus a gamification strategy—on top with leaderboards, activity lists, and a ranking system to reward them locally, socially, and contextually—we increased top-line metrics, defined values of users to our system, and generate personal user investment to come for the product and stay for the community. 

I’ve also designed the Sync Tool, one of core feature inside the app that enable people to create lip-synced lyrics and The Party Mode, a speculative feature to experience lyrics timely synced with the music with a word by word delightful interaction.

The strategy turned out to improve our metrics and revamp the app, giving us the ability to generate multiple, richer data on top of music and lyrics like translations, establishing us as the top lyrics service provider. But most of all, it allowed the consolidation of a stronger and conscious community of fans closer to their favorite artists and the brand.