# Creating coherence: How Spotify's design system goes beyond platforms

DevFeed: [Creating coherence: How Spotify's design system goes beyond platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/creating-coherence-how-spotify-s-design-system-goes-beyond-platforms-9593.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.figma.com/blog/creating-coherence-how-spotifys-design-system-goes-beyond-platforms/>)

Author: Juli Sombat

Published: 2023-08-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Figma Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/figma-blog.md>)

Topics: [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cross-platform.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>)

Tags: [components](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/components.md>), [cross-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cross-platform.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [design-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design-systems.md>), [platforms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platforms.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/systems.md>), [tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tokens.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ui.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

Spotify's Encore design systems team adopted a cross-platform approach to create a more cohesive experience across 45 platforms and more than 2,000 device types. The article describes how Encore's Mobile and Web subsystems used shared design decisions, components, and design tokens, and how Spotify later worked toward greater commonality and reusable components.

## Source excerpt

Design Manager Juli Sombat sheds light on how a need for more cohesion led Spotify's design systems team to take a cross-platform approach to components.