Product Design UX UI Connected TV

Spectrum TV App

A connected-TV experience that brought live, on-demand, and DVR into a single, fast surface.

Discovery shelves designed for remote-control nav — large hit targets, fast scan, predictable hierarchy.

Designed for the 10-foot view

The Spectrum TV App was the company's flagship streaming experience — the surface that let cable subscribers watch their full lineup on every device they owned. The brief was simple to describe and brutally hard to deliver: make every show feel one click away, regardless of which device the user is on.

Connected-TV interfaces are a different sport. Pixel-perfect tablet design doesn't survive a couch and a remote. Every interaction needs to be navigable with a five-button D-pad, every screen needs to read at six feet, and every load state needs to feel intentional, not broken.

The decisions that mattered

  • Shelf-first IA — discovery rails sized for D-pad nav, not mouse hover
  • Continue-watching surfacing — the show I started last night should be the show I'm one click from tonight
  • Search that survives a remote — predictive, sparse, and forgiving of typos
  • Cross-device hand-off — start on the phone, finish on the TV, without re-buffering the relationship
[ Designed for the tablet ]

Spectrum TV on iPad — discovery, in seconds.

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Same product, every device. The shelves, the hero billboard, the search field — sized for whichever surface you happen to be holding.

[ 03 ] Outcome

A consistent Spectrum TV experience across phone, tablet, and big-screen — built around the assumption that the most precious resource on a couch is the second between "I want to watch X" and X actually playing.

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