Pulling from the name of a turn table’s base the “platter”, PLATTERIST is built to host and provide music information to users. In designing this mobile app, I aimed to create a product that remained simple and clean with a fun but sophisticated design. As a user, I feel many music information sites are inundated with unnecessary components. With that, I strived to create a user-friendly product that allows the user to quickly and easily access their desired information.

The app’s home page first prints the top ten songs with each card offering additional song information including the Artist, Album Title and the Lyrics. You are then further able to search any song title. The app will then print the top three search results from the API that will each offer the same information - Artist, Album Title and the Lyrics. You are then able to “Spin Again” and search for another song.

One of my personal favorite minor but fun additions I made to the app was the implementation of the spinning turntable as the loading icon. PLATTERIST was built on React while pulling from a [free] API which only provides the first 30% of the lyrics. I further implemented Bootstrap building it mobile first, as users would presumably utilize the app on mobile devices.