Yesterday every app started to keep its own cube in Cubes, and “mine” filled up with a mess: three cubes called features, pieces repeated, nobody sure who had added what. Today was about taming it, in four parts, all live by mid-morning.
side by side
Cubes now notices cubes and pieces of mine that look alike, by name or because most of their pieces share names. It doesn’t merge them. It offers them on one quiet tile, and opening it shows them side by side: where each one lives, what they hold, how they differ. Then a choice: they are different, one is the same as the other, look later, or i changed my mind. Nothing changes by itself.
The same morning, mine learned to turn. Swipe it and the cubes are grouped by where they live: on their own, or inside a piece of another cube. Holding a cube moves it into a piece, or lets it stand alone again.
Three cubes called features, side by side; and mine turned to where each cube lives (mock data).
whose hands
Every cube, piece, face and colour now knows who added it: Selim, or the session that wrote it. A cube of mine has a face called hands that groups its pieces that way. When many sessions build the same thing, this is how you see whose work you are looking at.
The hands face of a cube: its pieces grouped by who added them (mock data, made-up session names).
every name kept
Names change often here. Now every name a thing ever had is kept, with its day and who gave it. A name can be written down beside a thing without using it, and any old name can become the name again with a tap.
All of this sits in one place. Pressing and holding any piece, at any distance, opens the same menu: change it, its names, move it, make a library cube mine, hide it. One menu for everything became a new principle.
the word part
One more thing came from Cube Design. On its site, the newest version was the home and also one of the versions: a loop. The fix was a new word. A piece is the thing itself; being a cube (holding pieces) and being a part (held by one) are roles it plays. Two pieces either sit side by side or one holds the other, and the home has nowhere further out to go.