Work / Case study 02

Clickset

A setlist app built by a drummer, for drummers, between songs.

Role
Product, design, development
Year
2026
Platform
Installable web app

The ask

Stop reading tempos off a napkin.

Between songs there are about four seconds to find the next tempo, count it in and not look lost. Paper setlists, phone metronomes and memory were all failing, each in its own embarrassing way.

The fix

One screen. Big numbers. Foot pedal.

Clickset keeps every song's tempo, time signature and notes in order, plays the click and pages forward with an AirTurn pedal, so your hands never leave the sticks. It works offline and installs like a real app.

What makes it work

Built for four seconds between songs.

01

Tap it in.

Tap the tempo, nudge it up or down, hit play. The BPM is big enough to read from the drum throne, and every beat lights up, so you can see the count as well as hear it.

02

Setlist, click, timer. Zero menus.

The setlist holds every song's tempo. The timer runs practice sets with the click still going. Everything is one thumb away.

03

Same setlist on every screen.

Phone on the floor tom, tablet on a mic stand, laptop at rehearsal. Sign in with your email and your setlists, songs, tempos, accents and notes sync to the cloud and follow you to every device. No Wi-Fi at the venue? (There isn't.) It keeps working offline and catches up once you're back online.

Brand system

Readable from the drum throne.

120

System UI · instant, offline, already installed

BPM · Allegro

The tempo name, for the classically trained

Amber on near-black: the same amber as this site, because it's my app and I'm consistent like that. System fonts keep it instant on any device, and the numbers are huge on purpose. You read them from four feet away, mid-song, under a spotlight. The logo is a drumstick coming down on a drum pad, which also happens to make the C in Clickset.

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