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Media & Entertainment Product Design
ANODA designs discovery, playback and live operations as one experience, so audiences find a reason to stay and your team can keep the show running.
- For streaming and live teams
- TV, music, events, digital art
- TV, web and mobile
- Remote, thumb and mouse
- Five published media cases
- Streaming, TV guide, live events, art
- Design first
- Development scoped separately
In short
Content people find, play and come back to, and the tools your team runs it with.
What's included
- Content discovery
- Playback and live
- TV guides and schedules
- Moderation and production
- Admin and content tools
- TV, web and mobile
Answers you'll have before development
- What does a viewer see first, and what next?
- How does it work with a remote, a thumb and a mouse?
- What does the team need while an event is live?
Where it stops
Consumer products in any category.
Media & Entertainment Product Design
Content, playback and the teams behind them.
Not included
- Development, streaming infrastructure or licensing
- Audience, watch-time or revenue figures
The audience's side and the team's
What people watch and do, and what the people running it need.
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Content and navigation model
Catalogues, categories, search and what each audience sees first.
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Playback, live and schedule screens
Players, live events, guides and reminders, for each screen size.
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Team and moderation tools
Content queues, approvals and live controls for the people running it.
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Design system and handoff
Components for TV, web and mobile, in light and dark.
You receive
- A screen map for every platform
- Flows with every state
- UI and a clickable prototype
Designed for the couch, the phone and the control room.
When viewers cannot find what they came for or operators cannot tell what is going on air, the subscription and the live show both pay. More recommendations cannot repair a broken playback or moderation journey. ANODA designs discovery, the viewing states and the team’s controls together, with the remote, phone and desk each serving its real task. Bring us the moment your audience leaves or your operator hesitates: we will make the next action clear.
Every screen is designed for
- New viewer, no history yet
- Buffering or a weak signal
- Offline on the move
- Not available in this region
- Live event about to start
- Schedule changed
- Content waiting for moderation
- Driven by a TV remote
- Kids or larger-text mode
Media products we have designed
Live events, a TV guide, digital art, a hospital TV and live animal cameras.
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SaaS · Live Events
Vixi Suite
Turned multi-step live-event production into one fan-engagement platform where venues create, moderate and display fan content at event speed.
- 200+ Screens designed
- 4 Experts on the team
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TV guide · iOS & Android · Phone & tablet
TV24
Designed a TV guide for US, UK and Irish television: choosing a provider and region, schedules with the right channel numbers, saved shows and reminders.
- 79+ Screens designed
- 3 Experts on the team
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Digital Art · Streaming · Web + Mobile
Blackdove
Designed a digital art platform for web and mobile: curated collections of moving art, artist profiles and sending a piece to a canvas on the wall.
- 300+ Unique screens
- 3 Surfaces — Shopify storefront, web app and mobile app
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Healthcare · Streaming · TV app
HyperSign LifeVue
Designed a hospital TV entertainment interface with Adults, Kids and High-Accessibility modes, driven end to end by a D-pad remote in a clickable prototype.
- 68 Unique screens
- 126h Of design work
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Live streaming · Subscription · Web app
ZooPlus
Designed live and recorded animal streaming for viewers and teachers, with Zoo Admin and Super Admin tools for cameras, habitats and clips, responsive from desktop to phone.
Right for products people watch on several screens
It fits when content is the product, and people meet it on more than one screen.
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Content is the product
People come to watch, listen or take part, and leave when they can't find something.
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More than one screen
The same catalogue has to work on a TV, a phone and a desktop.
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A team runs it live
Editors, moderators or producers schedule, approve and publish while people watch.
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The feeds and rights are set
Catalogue data, schedules and regional rights are known, so the design can follow them.
A different starting point
- The product is for consumers, but content is not the core B2C & Consumer Products
- The tool is for making and approving creative work, not watching it Creative Management Design
- Creators, advertisers or buyers find and book each other Marketplace Design
- Viewers stop coming back and your data cannot show where they give up UX Audit
Let's design what people watch next
Tell us what your audience watches, where they watch it and who runs it behind the scenes. We'll suggest a starting service and what it would cover on each screen.
Scope, access and who does what
Your product's stage picks the service, and that service's proposal holds the terms for TV, web and mobile alike.
- Scope
- Per service fixed or phased, set in the proposal
- Timeline
- Agreed after scope, access and dependencies
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You provide
- The product
- Test accounts for the live apps or staging, on every platform you ship.
- The content
- How the catalogue, schedules and live events are structured, and where the data comes from.
- Evidence
- What people search for and can't find, where they drop, and what support hears.
- Engineering
- The team, the player and streaming stack, and what each TV platform allows.
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Who does what
- ANODA
- Models the catalogue and who watches it, designs every screen and state per platform, and writes what engineers need to build each one.
- Your team
- Owns the content, rights and data feeds, reviews every round, and builds and releases the apps. Licensing, age ratings and legal review are your call.
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Boundaries
- Outside media design
- Development, streaming and player infrastructure, content licensing, and legal or age-rating review.
- After the design
- Your engineering team or an agency builds the apps. Should you want us to build them, that is a separate engagement.
In the client's words
The design direction gave the TV guide a more consistent way to present programmes and channel information. We appreciated the attention to browsing and navigation, so the guide could be reviewed as one connected experience.
Where do viewers lose the thread?
Tell us what the product plays, on which screens, and who runs it behind the scenes.
Message received.
Within 15 minutes, we’ll email you initial feedback and follow-up questions.
How Push Notifications Work
Protect your notification channel with timely permissions, useful deep links and preference control. ANODA designs push journeys that bring users back to value.
Media & Entertainment Product Design: common questions
What separates a media app design team that has shipped players from one that only draws thumbnails?
Pick people who have built your kind of product before — a streaming app, a TV guide and a live-event tool are different jobs. Ask to see the unhappy states: a stream that buffers, a show that is not available in a region, a schedule that changed, content waiting for moderation. And check which screens they have designed for, a TV and its remote included, and who from their studio would be on yours.
What does media UX design cover, and why do two projects rarely cost the same?
A content and navigation model, playback, live and schedule screens, the team's moderation and admin tools, the states that connect them, a design system per platform, and a working prototype of the UI. The price moves with the number of platforms — TV, web and mobile — the size and structure of the catalogue, the audiences and roles, and whether viewers already use the product. The first service's proposal carries a scope written for your catalogue, and the schedule is agreed when we know what access and the player's dependencies involve.
Who are you designing for — the viewers and fans, or the team running the channel?
Viewers, listeners and fans; subscribers and families, including children; artists and creators; and the teams behind the product — editors, producers, moderators, venue staff and admins. The workflows are browsing and search, playing and following live events, schedules and reminders, saving and personal lists, sending content to another screen, and the team's queues for publishing, moderating and displaying content.
Which service should a streaming, TV or live-event product start with?
A new product begins in UI/UX & Product Design; one viewers already use that has outgrown its interface moves to UI Redesign. Streaming app design usually runs through Mobile App Design and Web App Design, with the TV interface designed alongside. Dashboard Design covers the numbers producers and advertisers watch, and Design Systems keeps TV, web and mobile consistent. Building the apps is a separate engagement with its own scope.
Rights, age ratings and accessibility: does your design certify any of them?
Your team owns content rights, regional availability, age ratings and legal review; we design how each one appears to people. That covers what a viewer sees when something is not available where they are, how kids' modes and parental controls behave, and larger text, contrast and remote-only navigation. We design for accessibility and check it in the design, but that check certifies nothing: legal, regulatory and accessibility sign-off stays with you.
What will you need from our product, content and engineering people?
Test accounts for the live apps or staging on every platform; how the catalogue, schedules and live events are structured and where the data comes from; search, drop-off or support data if you have it; a person who can settle product questions; and engineers who can tell us what the player, the streaming stack and each TV platform will and will not do.
What have you designed for viewers, listeners and fans?
Vixi Suite, a live-event fan-engagement platform — 200+ screens designed; TV24, a TV guide for phones and tablets — 79+ screens, for line-ups of more than 18,000 channels; Blackdove, a digital art platform — 300+ unique screens; HyperSign LifeVue, a hospital TV interface with 3 interface modes; ZooPlus, a responsive live animal-streaming platform for viewers, Zoo Admins and a Super Admin; and Wildcast, the interface design of a podcast advertising marketplace with 3 portals redesigned.
Will a redesign work with the player and TV platforms we already have?
Yes. Most entertainment app design starts from a product people already use, a player that is already chosen and a catalogue that already exists. Each screen respects what the player and each TV platform allow; we work in your design files and system, together with your own designers and engineers, and leave you every file.