Product
Mobile App / Music & Faith
Role
Product Designer
Year
2025
Making hymn reading feel natural on a screen.
Hymnify is a digital hymn platform designed to make it easier for users to discover, read and engage with hymns through one simple mobile experience.
About Hymnify
Hymnify was designed as a digital space for discovering and engaging with hymns.
The experience brings hymn discovery, reading, audio playback and personal organisation into one place.
Instead of treating a hymn as just something to read, Hymnify gives users different ways to interact with it, whether they want to search for a specific hymn, browse by category, listen to it, or save it for later.
The experience
The core of Hymnify is straightforward.
Find a hymn. Read it. Listen to it. Save it.
But these actions happen in different contexts.
Someone might know exactly what hymn they want and search for it.
Someone else might simply want to browse through categories, and another user might want to keep a hymn in their library or create a playlist around it.
So I designed the experience around these different ways of discovering and interacting with hymns without making the product feel complicated.
Finding a hymn
Hymn discovery is one of the main parts of the experience.
The Hymnify home experience organises hymns into categories such as Invocation, Introit, Morning Worship, Evening Worship, Vespers, Sabbath Worship, Adoration, Praise and Thanksgiving, and Service and Devotion.
This gives users a way to browse without needing to know the exact name of a hymn beforehand.
For users who already know what they are looking for, the search experience provides a more direct path.
Reading a hymn
When a hymn is selected, the experience shifts from discovery to consumption.
The hymn screen puts the title and hymn content at the centre, with the verses presented in a readable format.
There is also an option to save the hymn and an audio control for listening.
Your Library
Not every hymn needs to be consumed immediately.
The Library gives users a place to keep the hymns they want to return to.
When there are no saved hymns, the empty state clearly communicates that the library is empty and gives the user a direct action to add something to it.
This makes the empty state more than a blank screen. It points the user towards what they can do next.
Playlists
The Library also extends into playlists.
Users can create a playlist, give it a name and organise hymns around it.
This adds another layer to the experience beyond simply saving individual hymns.
Instead of only asking users to remember which hymns they liked, Hymnify gives them a way to organise them around their own listening habits.
Settings
The Settings experience gives users control over how they interact with Hymnify.
The available options include font size, audio quality and display mode.
Font size is particularly important for a reading-focused product because users don't necessarily have the same reading preferences.
The settings experience therefore allows the interface to adapt to the user rather than forcing everyone into the same configuration.
Impact
Hymnify brings hymn discovery, reading, audio playback and personal organisation into one mobile experience.
Users can browse hymns through categories, search for specific hymns, read and listen to them, save favourites to their library and organise them into playlists.
For me, the project reinforced something simple about designing focused products, with Hymnify, that meant keeping the hymn at the centre while making discovery, reading, listening and saving feel like natural parts of the same experience.
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Product
Mobile App / Music & Faith
Role
Product Designer
Year
2025
Making hymn reading
feel natural on a screen.
Hymnify is a digital hymn platform designed to make it easier for users to discover, read and engage with hymns through one simple mobile experience.
About Hymnify
Hymnify was designed as a digital space for discovering and engaging with hymns.
The experience brings hymn discovery, reading, audio playback and personal organisation into one place.
Instead of treating a hymn as just something to read, Hymnify gives users different ways to interact with it, whether they want to search for a specific hymn, browse by category, listen to it, or save it for later.
The experience
The core of Hymnify is straightforward.
Find a hymn. Read it. Listen to it. Save it.
But these actions happen in different contexts.
Someone might know exactly what hymn they want and search for it.
Someone else might simply want to browse through categories, and another user might want to keep a hymn in their library or create a playlist around it.
So I designed the experience around these different ways of discovering and interacting with hymns without making the product feel complicated.
Finding a hymn
Hymn discovery is one of the main parts of the experience.
The Hymnify home experience organises hymns into categories such as Invocation, Introit, Morning Worship, Evening Worship, Vespers, Sabbath Worship, Adoration, Praise and Thanksgiving, and Service and Devotion.
This gives users a way to browse without needing to know the exact name of a hymn beforehand.
For users who already know what they are looking for, the search experience provides a more direct path.
Reading a hymn
When a hymn is selected, the experience shifts from discovery to consumption.
The hymn screen puts the title and hymn content at the centre, with the verses presented in a readable format.
There is also an option to save the hymn and an audio control for listening.
Your library
Not every hymn needs to be consumed immediately, the Library gives users a place to keep the hymns they want to return to.
When there are no saved hymns, the empty state clearly communicates that the library is empty and gives the user a direct action to add something to it.
This makes the empty state more than a blank screen. It points the user towards what they can do next.
Playlists
The Library also extends into playlists.
Users can create a playlist, give it a name and organise hymns around it.
This adds another layer to the experience beyond simply saving individual hymns.
Instead of only asking users to remember which hymns they liked, Hymnify gives them a way to organise them around their own listening habits.
Settings
The Settings experience gives users control over how they interact with Hymnify.
The available options include font size, audio quality and display mode.
Font size is particularly important for a reading-focused product because users don't necessarily have the same reading preferences.
The settings experience therefore allows the interface to adapt to the user rather than forcing everyone into the same configuration.
Impact
Hymnify brings hymn discovery, reading, audio playback and personal organisation into one mobile experience.
Users can browse hymns through categories, search for specific hymns, read and listen to them, save favourites to their library and organise them into playlists.
For me, the project reinforced something simple about designing focused products, with Hymnify, that meant keeping the hymn at the centre while making discovery, reading, listening and saving feel like natural parts of the same experience.