ENCORE

Why I made it

I kept coming back to an impossible question: what was the best concert I had ever seen? Memory does not behave like a five star scale, and a show from fifteen years ago can be difficult to compare with one from last month. A duel made the question smaller and more answerable.

What I built

Encore combines a concert diary with a pairwise ranking system. Shows become ticket like records, then enter head to head duels. Each decision contributes to an evolving ranking, turning a pile of memories into a personal concert canon.

The payoff

The rankings page gives the duels somewhere to go. Instead of simply storing where and when a show happened, Encore turns the archive into something interpretable: favorites, relative placement, and patterns across the shows you have seen.

Design direction

I wanted the interface to feel like the physical ephemera of going to shows rather than a spreadsheet of attendance. The duel screen borrows from ticket typography and perforated stubs; the rankings screen is deliberately denser, functioning more like a personal music archive.