Crunchyroll
Integrated build prompt · An end-to-end product, UX, UI, frontend, SEO/AEO, and QA specification inspired by Crunchyroll
QUICK ANSWER
How can I build a site using Crunchyroll's information architecture as a reference?
Use the development prompt and DESIGN.MD on this page together. The development prompt defines features, information architecture, states, and SEO for content discovery and playback; DESIGN.MD fixes screen structure, tokens, components, responsive behavior, and accessibility.
Development criteria
It turns the relationships and states of titles, seasons, and playlists, key user flows, recovery paths, and completion conditions into an implementable specification.
Design criteria
Start from immersive media · dark and immersive · medium information density · featured media -> horizontal content rails -> play or save -> account state, while avoiding the original logo, proprietary copy, images, and pixel-level layout.
Risk to validate
Treat playback focus and continue-watching as a primary design risk and define loading, empty, error, partial-data, and success states.
How to use it
- Replace the users, core features, and technology stack in the development prompt with your project details.
- Give DESIGN.MD to your AI builder or coding agent as the persistent design standard.
- Validate 360px, 768px, and 1280px layouts, keyboard navigation, and error states against the checklist.
REFERENCE & BLUEPRINT
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COPY-READY PROMPT
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Crunchyroll
Integrated build prompt · Video and streaming · Product, UX, UI, frontend, SEO/AEO, performance, and QA in one build specification.
When to use this prompt
Use this document when you are planning, designing, or building a product where content discovery and playback matters. Study the public information architecture of Crunchyroll , but reinterpret it for your own problem. Do not reproduce its logo, copy, images, proprietary assets, or pixel-level layout.
- Reference service: Crunchyroll
- Core entities: titles, seasons, and playlists
- Primary risk: playback focus and continue-watching
- Starting interface direction: immersive media · dark and immersive · medium information density · featured media -> horizontal content rails -> play or save -> account state · #F47521 · Crunchyroll
Public interface design analysis
- Reference basis: These are recurring visual and structural patterns from public landing screens and representative task flows. Verify the current live capture because services change over time.
- Interface archetype: immersive media
- Tone and manner: dark and immersive
- Information density: medium
- Color strategy: high-contrast brand accents on dark surfaces (#F47521)
- Navigation model: lightweight top navigation
- Structural sequence: featured media -> horizontal content rails -> play or save -> account state
- Reusable patterns: media hero, content rail, play action, continue card, profile menu
- Independent application rule: Use the order and decision principles only. Do not reproduce logos, copy, imagery, icons, or proprietary screen composition.
Project inputs to replace
product_name: "[Your product name]"
target_users: "[Primary users and context]"
problem: "[Problem they need to solve]"
core_features: "[Three to five essential features]"
business_goal: "[Conversion, activation, retention, or another metric]"
technology_stack: "[For example, Next.js and Tailwind CSS]"
brand_tone: "[For example, clear, calm, and trustworthy]"Copy-ready prompt
Act as a senior product designer, UX strategist, frontend architect, and technical SEO lead.
Create an implementation-ready product specification and, when requested, production-quality code for [Your product name]. Use Crunchyroll (https://www.crunchyroll.com) only as a reference for information architecture and decision flow in a product designed for content discovery and playback. Do not copy the service's brand, logo, wording, images, protected assets, or exact screen composition.
Project context:
- Target users: [Primary users and context]
- Problem: [Problem they need to solve]
- Core features: [Three to five essential features]
- Business goal: [Conversion, activation, retention, or another metric]
- Technology stack: [Framework, styling, data, and hosting]
- Brand tone: [Voice and visual character]
Required design and implementation criteria:
1. Make the relationships and states of titles, seasons, and playlists understandable at a glance.
2. Provide prevention, explanation, and recovery paths for playback focus and continue-watching.
3. Specify loading, empty, error, success, disabled, permission-denied, and partial-data states.
4. Preserve content priority and navigation at 360px, 768px, and 1280px.
5. Use semantic HTML, logical keyboard order, visible focus, 44px touch targets, and WCAG AA contrast.
6. Define page structure, components, data, actions, microcopy, edge cases, and measurable acceptance criteria.
7. Give every indexable page a unique title, meta description, canonical URL, heading hierarchy, and crawlable internal links.
8. Answer important user questions directly in visible content. Keep WebSite, WebPage, BreadcrumbList, and CreativeWork structured data consistent with that content.
9. Set performance budgets for the main image, fonts, JavaScript, Core Web Vitals, and slow-network behavior.
10. Return a testable result rather than general design advice.
Output in this order:
- Goals, assumptions, and success metrics
- User flow and information architecture
- Screen and component specification
- Data model, states, and error recovery
- Responsive and accessibility rules
- SEO, AEO, and structured-data plan
- Implementation plan or code
- Verifiable completion checklistStarting design tokens
:root {
--color-primary: #F47521;
--color-ink: #17201D;
--color-canvas: #F6F8F7;
--color-surface: #FFFFFF;
--color-tint: #F4752122;
--color-danger: #DC2626;
--radius-card: 8px;
--space-1: 4px; --space-2: 8px; --space-3: 12px;
--space-4: 16px; --space-6: 24px; --space-8: 32px;
}These tokens are a starting point, not a request to clone Crunchyroll. Validate contrast, hierarchy, density, and brand distinctiveness for your own users.
Expected deliverables
- Product requirements tied to user outcomes and measurable success criteria
- Information architecture and the critical end-to-end flow
- Component contracts covering data, states, actions, and accessibility
- Mobile, tablet, and desktop adaptation rules
- SEO/AEO content model, structured data, and internal-link plan
- Performance budgets, analytics events, tests, and release acceptance criteria
Follow-up prompts
- "Take the most important flow and define normal, loading, empty, partial-data, validation-error, server-error, permission-denied, and success states with one consistent data model."
- "Convert the specification into semantic, reusable components with realistic English content at 360px, 768px, and 1280px. Include keyboard and screen-reader behavior."
- "Audit the result for playback focus and continue-watching. Rank failures by severity and give observable evidence, a fix, a verification method, and a completion condition."
- "Remove anything that resembles Crunchyroll's brand or proprietary layout while preserving only the useful information-architecture principle."
- "Split the result into engineering tickets with purpose, data requirements, component API, edge cases, accessibility criteria, tests, and dependencies."
Validation checklist
- ☐ Crunchyroll is used only as an information-architecture reference.
- ☐ Project-specific users, problems, features, and metrics replace every placeholder.
- ☐ The priority and state changes of titles, seasons, and playlists are explicit.
- ☐ Trust and recovery paths address playback focus and continue-watching.
- ☐ Empty, delayed, partial, failed, and permission-restricted states are covered.
- ☐ Keyboard, screen reader, 200% zoom, reduced motion, and contrast can be tested.
- ☐ The final design has its own product language and visual identity.