Mady Torres de Souza

Mady Torres de Souza

Staff Product Designer in Stockholm, She/Her

About

I'm from Brazil, where I have worked with interaction and digital design since 2008 within agencies and for larger companies such as Samsung and Nokia. Since 2016, I have been at Spotify in Stockholm, reimagining the listening experience for people worldwide. My work ranges from leading strategic, multi-team projects to creating interaction prototypes.

Through the years, I've worked with: Service Design • Illustration • Supporting Global User Research Studies but also running my own small scale ones • Multimodal User Interfaces • Hardware Prototyping in high and low fidelity • Digital Prototyping in high and low fidelity.

In my spare time, I also enjoy: Learning new languages • Music production and creation • Gaming • Cooking • Restoring old record players 🫶

Contact

Website

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Staff Product Designer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden

I currently work with the Partner and Platforms Team, focused on listening across multiple hardware products. Right now, I co-lead design for Audiobooks, responsible for the listening experience on devices beyond mobile.

2020 — 2022
Senior Product Designer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
2016 — 2020
Product Designer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
2016 — 2016
Product Design Intern at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
2014 — 2016
Visual and Interaction Designer at Wobo Inc.
Remote work (Oakland, US)

Designing web-based products and systems for campus services in the US.

2011 — 2013
Interaction Designer at Samsung / SIDIA
Recife, Brazil

Designing products intended for mobile and web platforms and supporting the creation of the design team at the Recife office in a project embedded at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).

2010 — 2010
Visual and Interaction Designer at I2 Tecnologia
Recife, Brazil

Proposing and building digital advertising products for mobile devices.

2008 — 2009
Interaction Design Intern at Nokia Institute
Recife, Brazil

Design intern in an embedded project from the Nokia Institute of Technology in partnership with the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE).

Projects

Ongoing

Since 2020, I have co-led the listening experience design of audiobooks across Spotify. My role is to understand the complexities that a new content type brings across devices.

2022

First Spotify product in collaboration with IKEA.

2019

Getting a basic understanding of US listeners’ user needs around music and producing materials to communicate research with peers around the company.