

While an innocuous change on desktop, it’s clear Spotify aims to make their desktop client mirror the mobile app in look and feel.

(An interesting demo can be found, here.)īased on the results of those tests (or hypotheses) in select markets (like the one we’re seeing on desktop at the moment) they’ll roll out those features to additional users in various territories.

Backstage can be described as an open platform for building developer portals to create, manage, and explore software from a single UX layer. Internally, teams at Spotify generate hypotheses that they’ll run A/B tests on through a developer portal called “ Backstage”.
