The brief outlines that we should create an app to discover, choose and play music. There isn’t a particular theme outlined in the project brief, so we have creative freedom to focus this on anything that we’d like as long as it aligns with the briefs guidelines. It does suggest that this could be an area of music in particular, perhaps a genre, era or theme. Regardless, extensive research should be done on this theme to fully understand it before bringing it into an app.
There isn’t a particular limit on the number of screen that we can create, but there is a guideline of three at absolute minimum, with five or more being more acceptable. These should include:
There are a range of areas that we should focus on when prouducing the app. The brief places a particular focus on the following:
When I think of music apps, Spotify and Apple Music are the first to come to mind. These are both very popular music streaming options, with Spotify coming in at the most used service with 290 million paying users as of 2025. These are both streaming services which allow users to listen to music, create playlists and more.
I chose these two to look at as they’re the ones that I have used most in the past, as well as arguably being the most widely used and recognised.
Firstly, Spotify has music, playlists and podcasts. On the home screen, it gives users a range of their own playlists, recommended tracks as well as personalised, automatically generated playlists. For example, there are ‘daylists’ based on the users listening activity. This personalisation is a great way of drawing users in by giving them a mix of their favourites, as well as recommending them new music based on their music taste. There are also discovery playlists and a new AI DJ.
