Design & UX · Media & Entertainment

Design a video streaming home screen

Help viewers find something to watch quickly. An expert, step-by-step prompt with inputs, method, deliverables, rules and a quality check.

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You are a product designer for media apps.
I work in Media & Entertainment: a media studio publishing video and podcasts. This work matters to audiences, advertisers and creators.

## Goal
Help viewers find something to watch quickly.

## What matters in Media & Entertainment
- How customers decide: audiences give attention to what entertains or teaches them fast; sponsors buy reach, audience fit and brand safety.
- Rules and standards that usually apply: copyright and licensing for music and footage; the limits of fair use; platform policies (YouTube, Spotify, Instagram); disclosure of sponsored content; defamation and privacy law.
- Tools commonly used: YouTube Studio; Spotify for Podcasters; Premiere Pro or DaVinci Resolve; Canva; social schedulers.
- Words people in this field use: hook; thumbnail; CTR; retention curve; episode; sponsor read; licensing; release schedule.
- Rules differ by country. If I have not said where I work, ask me, and do not present one country's law as if it applied everywhere.

## What I will give you
- Content library: [CONTENT]
- Viewers: [USERS]
- Viewing data: [DATA]
- Devices: [DEVICES]
- Anything else you should know: [EXTRA CONTEXT, or "none"]

## How to work through it
1. Restate the users, their main task, the platform and the business goal. Note what research or analytics would sharpen the answer.
2. Map the main viewing intents, such as continue or discover.
3. Design rows in priority order.
4. Design tiles with the information needed to choose.
5. Design continue watching.
6. Design search and voice search.
7. Plan navigation for a TV remote.
8. Test with real viewers.
9. Check the result against accessibility basics: contrast, focus states, labels, touch targets and screen readers.
10. Say how to test it with five real users and what to watch for.

## What to deliver
- Intents
- Layout
- Tiles
- Search
- Test

## Expert rules
- Design for the user's goal first; remove anything that does not help them complete it.
- Follow established patterns unless there is a clear reason not to.
- Be specific: name components, states (empty, loading, error, success) and exact copy.
- Respect copyright, licensing and release schedules. If anything in my plan or inputs conflicts with them, say so plainly and suggest a fix.
- Do not invent facts, figures, laws, sources or quotes. Label anything you had to assume with "Assumption:" and tell me how to check it.

## Format
- Describe layouts top to bottom, section by section.
- Use tables for flows, states and copy.
- Give exact microcopy in quotes.

## Before you answer
Check your draft against this list and fix anything that fails:
- Recommendations meet basic WCAG accessibility and rest on a user need, not on taste.
- Every item under "What to deliver" is complete, specific to my inputs and usable as it is, with no placeholders left for me to guess.
- Where it applies, it shows the likely effect on audience retention and watch time.

If something essential is missing, ask me up to 3 short questions first. Otherwise, start.
Open in ChatGPT Claude Perplexity

How to use this prompt

  1. Copy the prompt. Press Copy prompt and the full text goes to your clipboard.
  2. Fill the brackets. Use the form above, or replace [CONTENT], [USERS], [DATA], [DEVICES], [EXTRA CONTEXT, or "none"] with your own details.
  3. Paste and send. Paste it into ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini and send. Ask follow-up questions to refine the answer.

Why this prompt works

The “Design a video streaming home screen” prompt tells the assistant exactly what to hand back: intents; layout; tiles; search; and test. It makes the assistant work through 10 steps in order, starting with "restate the users, their main task, the platform and the business goal. Note what research or analytics would sharpen the answer", instead of jumping straight to an answer. Before replying, the assistant checks its draft against 3 tests and fixes anything that fails.

If an important detail is missing, the assistant asks you up to 3 short questions before it starts, so it does not build on guesses.

How to get the best answer

  1. Fill every bracket with real detail: [CONTENT], [USERS], [DATA] and the rest should hold real names, numbers and dates, not placeholders.
  2. Paste real material: where the prompt asks for notes, data or text, paste the actual content rather than a summary.
  3. Refine in the same chat: ask "make it shorter", "turn it into a table" or "add more detail on step 2".
  4. Check the result: test what it builds or writes before you rely on it.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Which AI assistant works best with the “Design a video streaming home screen” prompt?

The “Design a video streaming home screen” prompt works in any chat assistant and suits ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini best. Paste it in, send it, and ask follow-up questions in the same chat to refine the answer.

What do I fill in before sending the “Design a video streaming home screen” prompt?

Replace the 5 highlighted brackets – [CONTENT], [USERS], [DATA], [DEVICES], [EXTRA CONTEXT, or "none"] – with your own details. The more specific you are, the better the answer.

Who is the “Design a video streaming home screen” prompt for?

Anyone who wants a complete, working result from an AI assistant. Replace the brackets with your own project details.

Is the “Design a video streaming home screen” prompt free to use?

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Can I trust the answer the “Design a video streaming home screen” prompt gives?

Treat it as a strong first draft: the prompt tells the assistant not to invent facts and to mark its assumptions, but check figures yourself, especially anything with legal, financial or safety consequences.

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