Creative Spring Cleaning 2026

Interdisciplinary Designer

Rafe Chisolm3

Pandora

Run time: 2020 - 2021

At Pandora I had the opportunity
to contribute to a range of projects including
the brand identity refresh which

led to this Michel Gondry directed spot

At Pandora I had the opportunity
to contribute to a range of projects including
the brand identity refresh which

led to this Michel Gondry directed spot

Visual Ad

Experience

Visual Ad

Experience

Product Designer

Product Designer

THE OPPORTUNITY

Revamp the $1B per year ad experience for listeners with improved visuals, mechanics, and incentives that work better for listeners and advertisers.

PROJECT TIMELINE

6 months dedicated to product design and research

3 months of experimentation and iterative updates

ROLE

Investigate new modes of

ad presentation, interaction, and unlocks for ad supported listeners

TEAM

Product Design on a team of 1 design engineer and 2 visual designers

DESIGN

Visual design, Product Design, Design Strategy, Prototyping, Design Communication, Design Leadership

TOOLS

Figma, Framer,

Photoshop,
Adobe Audition,

Spline,
After Effects

Pandora

Run time: 2015 - 2017

Listener's experience

Listener's

experience

Listener's experience

Product Designer

Product Designer

THE OPPORTUNITY

After enhancing the ad-tier experience, I was tasked with expanding the social and cross product functionality of the redesigned experience along with listener identity.

PROJECT TIMELINE

Listening experience - ongoing iteration and shipping cycle


Listener Profile - 1 month design
2 months experimentation

Listening experience Ongoing iteration and shipping cycle


ROLE

Contribute to the web listening experience and listener profile identity

Contribute to the web
listening experience and
listener profile identity

TEAM

Product design within a core
team of 4 product designers

DESIGN

Visual design, Product Design, Prototyping, Front-end development

TOOLS

Sketch, Framer, Illustrator,
Photoshop, Android IDE,
HTML, CSS, React


Section 1

Turning up the volume on
the music genome project

Turning up the
volume on the
music genome project

Turning up the volume on
the music genome project

For over a decade this was the

container for all things one one of

the planet's most influential social

platforms. How do you redefine

an experience at the most pivotal

time of its existence in a rapidly

evolving landscape of social media?