1BB Content Machine · UX debrief, Aug 5

Eleven tabs was the problem. Not the product.

Three clickable mockups of the same idea: put uploading and connecting on one screen, delete the tabs that imply manual work, and make reformatting something you do straight from the Library. Everything below is live — click it, filter it, remix something.

“It's already pretty easy, but it's just too hard to navigate. It's already doing the work.”

Kevin, on the call

Today — 11 tabs

GalleryWriteChatRecordingsPhotosCarouselLibraryVoiceWinsIntegrationsSettings

stays moves into another tab deleted

After — 3 tabs

GalleryLibraryWinsSettings

Integrations and Recordings move onto Gallery. Voice folds into Settings. Write, Chat, Photos and Carousel are deleted — you make a carousel from the Library instead.

11→3

Tabs a member has to understand before they get any value. Settings doesn't count — nobody lives there.

Pick the one that feels easiest

All three obey the same rule, and it's the one thing worth getting right: uploaded media and connected sources share a screen but never share a list. They do different jobs, so they stay visually separate — otherwise merging them makes things more confusing, not less.

Mockup A

Two Steps

Your sketch, built. Upload on the left, Integrations on the right, one media grid underneath — numbered 1 and 2 so the whole job reads as two moves.

Best at
Explaining the product in one screenshot. A new member gets it without being told.
Watch out for
After week one nobody opens this screen daily — but it's still the first tab.
Open mockup A

Mockup B

Intake Rail

Sources stop being a tab entirely. Upload and Integrations sit in a rail that's always on screen, so the Library — the thing members actually use daily — is what they land on.

Best at
Daily use. You can drop a file without leaving your content, and see it land.
Watch out for
The rail eats width the content rows want, and it has to collapse on a phone.
Open mockup B

Mockup C

Remix Table

The Library becomes a list, and every row has one button: Remix. Turning a post into a carousel stops being a feature you find and becomes the obvious thing to do.

Best at
Volume. Scan 40 pieces fast and reformat several at once.
Watch out for
Loses the big visual previews — and members like seeing a carousel as a carousel.
Open mockup C

What's real in these: tab switching, shelf filters, search, the media picker with its “used in” trail, multi-select, and format-switching — pick Make into… on any piece and watch it get made. Media shown is sample content, not a real member's.

Still to decide: once Recordings moves onto Gallery, whether it keeps its own shelf there or just sits in the grid — and where a member goes to write something by hand on the rare day they want to.