“Spotify Vinyl” is a product design concept that translates the physical behavior of vinyl digging into an intuitive music-discovery experience.
Introduction
Music Streaming Platform is all about music curation.
There are tons of different ways to explore new music. For people with cool friends, social features like “what music my friends listen to” make discovery effortless — or you can simply let Spotify do everything for you with its powerful curation algorithm.
But if you love collecting and still remember the texture of music, here’s a new way to explore your music on Spotify.
User Pain point
Physical → Digital Music Exploration Journey
When people discover music through physical media, turning that discovery into listening isn’t seamless. Users must translate visual discovery into manual search across multiple platforms, breaking the flow from discovery to playback.
Solution / Visual Search
Spotify’s Native Visual Scanning for Instant Playback
By extending Spotify’s existing Camera Search for Spotify Codes with image recognition technology, I designed a seamless, native solution for physical music discovery. Without changing the current user flow, visual analysis is naturally integrated into the camera experience, allowing users to scan any album cover and move directly into listening.
Figma Prototype / Album Cover Search Flow
Solution / Search History
Human-Centered Vinyl Exploration Interaction (Search History)
Albums searched through the camera are saved into a playlist, designed with interactions that mimic the natural hand gesture of flipping through records. This experience-centered interaction brings that physical behavior into the digital space, creating an intuitive, natural bridge between physical and digital music discovery.
JavaScript React Prototype / Search History
Final Design