The new shape of the studio
Every page read, twenty-one photographed again, every commentary block quoted, every recent ask checked.
Where this stands, 18-08-2026. Steps 1 and 2 are done on the Mac and not yet published: the server serves markdown as text, the front door carries the seven chips and nineteen cards, the find bar finds, formats and taste exist, all pages is sorted by family, every page but the three copyable templates carries one top bar, and nothing in the folder is unreachable. Step 3, the cut, is part done. Steps 4 to 6 are not started. The live site keeps the old shape until publish.sh runs.
1Three sortings disagree over 118 pages
Three navigations, one library. The chips say seven families. The top bar says eleven links, four of them one family's sub-pages. 
all.html says six bands: The rules · Motion · Formats · Country leaflets · Inspiration · Everything else. Three sortings of the same hundred pages; a reader learns none of them.
The buried half. About 55 pages are reachable only through the closed band at the bottom of all.html, and being markdown, most download instead of opening. One page, 
the engine comparison, is reachable from nowhere at all: build-index.py misses second-level folders.
The 19 cards, and what each really opens 10 filed right · 3 in the wrong family · 2 that are one card twice · 3 pointing at the wrong page
| Card | Chip | What it really opens | |
|---|---|---|---|
|  Putting it online | Publishing | The three roads to a link. The review's best page |
 |  Our page design rules | Documents | Type, spacing, colour, blocks — 13 screens long, under four names |
 | The ready document formats | Documents | An anchor into the catch-all page; four of its tiles say 404 |
 |  The user manual | Documents | The software at its best, real screens |
 |  The UI review | Documents | Screens and pages reviewed, findings with repairs |
 |  The design benches | Inspiration | Where a project parks visual ideas. Checked true: three open |
 |  The register of a document | Documents | The voice the prose is written in |
 |  Illustrate a concept | Diagrams | 2D and 3D concept illustrations |
 |  Put a speaker in the page | Speakers | Sizes, features, costs of a speaker |
 |  Make your own speaker | Speakers | The wizard; its three road pages exist but are not linked |
 |  Give a page a voice | Speakers | The voice page |
| Speak to the machine | Speakers | The same voice page, same picture — a duplicate |
 |  The guide | Speakers | A person you talk with |
 |  Make pages move | Motion | The recipes — skips the family's own front page |
 |  Ideas: sites, images, motion, films | Inspiration | The galleries |
 |  Reduce cost with your own factory | Tools | The speaker factory; its own breadcrumb says Speakers |
 |  Send mail as your domain | Tools | How a message reaches someone |
 |  Show a body, and put it straight | Motion | A before-and-after drawing grammar |
 | Make a film | Motion | Film recipes |
The 15 folders, page by page what each holds · who reads it · what is buried
| Folder | Holds | Buried or worse |
|---|---|---|
| root · 17 | The spine and the registers: README, the design rules + their source, the tool register (view + source),  the install page, the film shelf + annex, the door, the library | taste.md (Frank's look verdicts), franks-baseline-ux.md (the nine pre-flight rules), document-families.md, three session papers, the inbox |
| people · 10 | The speaker shelf: family page, wizard, factory, three road pages | engine-comparison linked from nowhere · a personal message draft, a spent skill brief, a half-superseded status report |
| motion · 20 | Family page, recipes, Frank's 22 criteria, seven reference prompts (html view over md source) | The ten source md, by convention · three dated research papers of 08-08 |
| inspiration · 22 | The galleries,  trends,  the liked bank (4 models + log) | The ten Viktor Oddy digests, behind one bare folder link · a studied pair · a closed review |
| kennedy · 16 | The digested learnui.design corpus, layer ② of the method | All of it: the hub names its chapters in backticks, not links — Frank cannot click to any of the 15 digests. Five files are dead weight (the "safe-to-delete" pack, an unverified cheat sheet) |
| formats · 8 | Five format doctrines + three exemplars | Five of eight; no index page, the folder answers 403, the card opens an anchor with four broken tiles |
| voice · 6 | One live page | Five leftovers of a decided icon decision ("for your verdict" pages) |
| ui-review · 6 | The doctrine page | Five dated papers of the 15-08 self-review |
| guide · 3 | The family page + two dated research annexes | none |
| benches · 3 | The doctrine +  Central +  ABC Colombia | none |
| mail · 2 | The recipe + source md | none |
| register · manuals · publishing · diagramas · body · 1 each | One doctrine page each, all carded | none |
The convention that explains the md files. Declared in their own headers: the md is the source, the html is Frank's view. Eleven such pairs exist. The buried-count of build-index.py (78) overcounts because it does not credit family-page links; the true buried count is about 55.
2Seven chips again, Tools out, Screens in
Why these seven. Tools leaves: once its two cards move to their true families it holds nothing, and a register is a banner, not a family — it already is the second banner on the front door. Screens arrives: the kind of page Frank asked for most in the last four weeks — drawing a software screen, the demo, the boards — is the kind the studio never held. "Motion & films" becomes Motion, one name for chip and badge alike.
Documents, 4 cards what a prose page is made of
| Card | Opens | Change, and why |
|---|---|---|
| Our page design rules | documentation-compendium.html | Stays. Gains the Kennedy shelf as a linked shelf — today Frank cannot click to any of its 15 digests |
| The ready document formats | formats/index.html · new page | Today the card opens an anchor in the catch-all with four broken tiles. A real page holds the seven shapes, the five buried format doctrines, the country-leaflet shelf, and one tile per unnamed document skill (§5) |
| The register of a document | register/ | Stays |
| Photographs in a page | new page | The images chapter promised 19-07 and never written; SCRC waits on exactly this (cut-outs, credits, image bands) |
Screens, 5 cards software shown in a page — the new family
| Card | Opens | Change, and why |
|---|---|---|
| Draw a screen | new page | His most repeated ask: 19-07, 22-07, 05-08, 06-08, 13-08, 17-08, across four streams. The mockup vocabulary sits in the inbox, the eR kit is invisible from here, and "mockup" finds nothing |
| The demo of an app | new page | Asked 02-08, shown to City Halls, named "la forma ya probada" 17-08. The skill exists; the studio never names it |
| The boards | new page | Frank's own board-anatomy verdict of 29-07 sits parked in the inbox while boards multiply weekly; "board" finds nothing |
| The user manual | manuals/ | Moves from Documents: a manual is real screens of software |
| The UI review | ui-review/ | Moves from Documents: its object is screens and pages, and a reader hunting "review my screens" will not press Documents |
Speakers, 5 cards a person in the page
| Card | Opens | Change, and why |
|---|---|---|
| Put a speaker in the page | people/ | Stays |
| Make your own speaker | make-your-own.html | Stays; the page finally links its three road pages, which exist and are live |
| Voice | voice/ | Merge of "Give a page a voice" and "Speak to the machine": two cards, one page, one picture — a choice spent on nothing. The page gets its two halves anchored so the dictation half stops being buried |
| The guide | guide/ | Stays |
| The speaker factory | factory.html | Moves from Tools and drops the old title: its own breadcrumb already says Speakers |
Motion, 2 cards pages that move
Diagrams, 3 cards drawings that say the idea
| Card | Opens | Change, and why |
|---|---|---|
| Illustrate a concept | diagramas/ | Stays |
| Show a body, and put it straight | body/ | Moves from Motion: two of its three roads are drawings. Files stay in body/; the card's search words keep "motion" |
| Charts | new page | Data in a page: parked since 03-07, the house dataviz skill unnamed anywhere, and Central is a financial tool |
Inspiration, 3 cards where ideas come from, and what Frank ruled
| Card | Opens | Change, and why |
|---|---|---|
| The galleries | inspiration/ | Retitled from "Ideas: sites, images, motion, films" — a name, not a list |
| The design benches | benches/ | Stays |
| Taste | taste.html · new page | The failed errand: "what did Frank refuse" is today the hardest thing in the studio to reach. An HTML view of taste.md, beside the liked bank it judges; links the other verdict registries (motion criteria, presentation criteria) |
Publishing, 2 cards how a page reaches someone
| Card | Opens | Change, and why |
|---|---|---|
| Putting it online | publishing/ | Stays — the review's best page |
| Send mail as your domain | mail/branded-mail.html | Moves from Tools: the publishing page's own first line, how a thing reaches someone, is what mail is |
The frame around the cards one bar · one sorting · a find bar that finds · the tidy-up
One top bar on every page. Studio · the seven families · All pages. A page's own sections go on a second line. Today: twenty-one pages, twenty-one different bars, and the body page has none.
all.html sorted the way the door is sorted. Seven family bands, open, each with its count — replacing the six bands that are a third taxonomy. One further band, Machine files, holds the md sources under their own convention. The formats band becomes the formats page; the country-leaflet tiles go with it.
The find bar finds. Split what is typed on spaces, keep a card that holds every word; when nothing matches, say so and offer All pages. One suggestion list on both bars; "colour" and "color" both listed. Today speaker sizes, before and after and taste all return a blank page.
Markdown opens as text. One line in the nginx configuration on louis, and the sixty-eight links that today drop a file in Downloads open as pages.
One name per thing. The card, the page's bar and the H1 carry the same name. Today the design rules page answers to four names, the mail page to two, all.html to three.
One page owns each state. The speaker status is told on three pages and one copy has drifted (§3). The speakers page owns it; the others link it. Same for the finish verdict (the factory owns it) and the Code Wiki study (the liked bank owns it).
Retire the working papers. Fifteen files to _archive/: the five voice icon pages of a decided decision, four stale Kennedy papers, the review spec pair and the one-shot prompt, the Nelson message draft (today published and downloadable by anyone), the spent skill brief, the closed beautifului review. Four to delete: the _root-pack-absorbed-safe-to-delete/ folder, whose name is its verdict.
Repair the tidy tools. build-index.py misses second-level folders (it lost the engine comparison entirely) and does not credit family-page links (it says 78 buried; the truth is about 55).
What does not change. The card grammar (picture, badge, name, one line). The two banners. The folders on disk — cards and links move, files mostly stay. The two modes, document and pièce. The README as spine, slimmed to one line and a link per family.
3What the fresh photographs show, page by page
Photographed again 18-08 at 1440 px and 390 px. The ten findings of 15-08 all still stand, except one: the galleries gained 27 real thumbnails. Full captures in the evidence folder.
The front door a bar that mirrors one family, a banner that collapses on a phone
index.html · 3.2 screens desktop · 8.4 on a phoneInconsistent. The top bar's eleven links mirror one family's folder — four of eleven are Speakers sub-pages — not the seven chips directly below them. "Criteria" in the bar is a page with no card and no explanation.
On a phone. The teal banner still runs one or two words per line for ~470 px; the first card starts 1,320 px down.
Checked true. The benches card's "Three open today" matches the benches page.
all.html three names, six closed bands, 68 downloads
Three names for one page. The bar says "All pages", the front door says "full searchable library", the H1 says "UI/UX library". The breadcrumb literally reads "← Studio: index.html" — a filename shown to the reader.
Still standing from 15-08. Six closed bands is all screen 1 shows · four preview tiles still answer 404 · 68 links download.
The design rules 13 screens, four names, the glance doctrine buried at 80%
documentation-compendium.html · 11,800 px, the longest pageFour names, one page. "Our page design rules" on the card · "Design rules" in sibling bars · "UI/UX compendium" in its own bar · "A page that speaks before it is read" as H1. A reader sent by one cannot recognise the others.
Nobody would find. The glance document — the shape every page in the workspace is supposed to follow — sits at 80% of the scroll, 9,400 px down. The most-cited doctrine in the studio is its deepest-buried content.
The user manual clean; one law told twice
Clean. Answers on screen 1, two real Vox Populi captures, phone clean.
Repeats. The separation law ("the review never lives inside the manual") is stated here and mirrored on the UI review — one page should own it.
The UI review clean and short
One gap. Its finding grammar restates the review spec, which it does not link.
The design benches checked true, nothing to repair
Checked true. Three benches, dates right, the private SCRC tile honestly unpictured.
The register a tool review hiding in a writing page
One intruder. "A machine that writes whole books" — a review of the gemini-writer tool — sits at 75% depth of a page about the voice of prose. It belongs in the tool register.
Diagramas 2 px of phone overflow, lines that touch
Small repairs. Still 2 px of sideways scroll at 390 px · prose line-height 1.25, lines touch · "Waiting for top-up" undated on the row.
The speakers page contradicts its sister; a card covers the text on a phone
Out of date. § "How sharp she is" still offers the quick and slow enlargement finishes that the factory rejected on 07-08 ("the best-looking parts are born, not repainted"). Sister pages, opposite advice, no cross-reference.
Repeats. Third copy of the speaker status (with guide/ and voice/).
On a phone. Still 147 px of sideways scroll, and Valentina's floating "Hola, soy Valentina" card sits on top of the two-laws text.
Make your own speaker a wizard about faces with no face shown
No picture. Zero images on the page. Its only two links are md downloads — and one is a ready-to-send personal message to a named colleague, published on the live site.
Still standing. The three road pages exist, are live, and are still not linked from here.
The factory right, dated, filed under the wrong chip
Self-consistent. Its 07-08 verdict is what makes the speakers page stale. Still badged Tools while its own breadcrumb says Speakers.
Voice the clearest dated contradiction in the studio
voice/ · 8 screensOut of date. Stamped 31-07, it still claims Valentina and the Lesotho guide are live — guide/ (06-08) says one guide is live, and people/ says Valentina's buttons were withdrawn 02-08.
Repeats. Its engine table is a second tool register; its status section is the third copy of the speaker state.
Buried. The dictation half — what the "Speak to the machine" card promises — starts 45% down, with no anchor.
The guide holds the correct status; the worst phone overflow
Right where voice is wrong. "Three guides exist; one is live."
No picture. A page about two women who speak shows neither. On a phone: 326 px of sideways scroll, the worst in the studio.
Motion the family page no card reaches, wearing three navigation rows
Unreachable. Still reachable from no card — the Motion card opens the recipes instead.
Inconsistent. Three stacked navigation rows, one of which downloads the README.
Repeats. Re-analyses Code Wiki, which the liked bank already banks; restates the speaker doctrine that people/ owns.
The recipes the studio's best-illustrated link list
motion-design.html · 26 links, 26 picturesOne slip. Its subtitle points the reader at a filename: "The visual map is index.html".
Show a body the picture rule's best page, with no way back
body/ · 12 pictures, 6 linksStill no navigation at all. The only way back is the browser button.
The galleries the one visible repair since 15-08
27 real thumbnails now, all answering 200. About forty links still naked, and lazy-loading shows blank boxes until the reader scrolls.
The liked bank checked against its folder, clean
All four models live, pictured, dated.
Mail the false state is still the last word
Repair 10 of 15-08 not applied. "Nothing on this page is installed" still closes the Status section, after "it works". The one real pending step — the key onto the Vox Populi server — is buried mid-block.
Two names. The card says "Send mail as your domain"; the H1 says "Give a site its own mail".
Make a film two recipes the card gives no scent of
Buried. The series recipe starts at 50% of the page, the short-film recipe at 85%; the card says only "Ready film recipes". Two of six links pictured.
Publishing still the page the others should copy
Answer on screen 1, claims verified, phone clean.
438 commentary blocks to delete, 11 titles to rename
109 pages swept. The judgement records — taste.md, the motion criteria, franks-baseline-ux.md — are content, not commentary, and were left alone. The quotes, page by page:
mail/branded-mail.html the worst page: a diary ending on a superseded state
"02-08-2026: recipe proven on Vox Populi… this note updates once the first branded mail lands in his inbox."
"15-08-2026, later the same day: it works. Frank opened the account…"
"The morning of 15-08-2026, before that, it was not done at all. Nothing on this page is installed…"
Keep the current state and the one remaining step; delete the chronology. Twin blocks in the source md, same cut.
README.md six provenance blocks and an autobiography
"The complaint that opened this. Frank asked for three modern options and got three pages that looked the same… He was right…"
"Opened 2026-07-31…" · "Captured 2026-07-19 from four sources Frank gave." · "Added 15-08-2026, from the skill non-ai-style." · "Opened 15-08-2026, its own family because it is a different kind of thing…" · "(14-08-2026, from an insole advert Frank found)"
"## History — Born 2026-07-03 from the typography specialist's adversarial diagnosis… Restructured the same day after Frank's verdict…"
The rules stand alone without any of it.
tools.html + tools.md housekeeping narrated on the register itself
The whole Housekeeping section: "Done 09-08-2026 — moved, nothing deleted" · "Two defects — done 09-08-2026" · "All eleven files now sit in _archive/…"
Footer: "Built 09-08-2026. Living document — new tools are assessed the same way and added here."
tools.md: "Cuts done 09-08-2026 (obsolete root files, nothing deleted)…" and a fixed defect kept as strikethrough narrative.
register/ · ui-review/ · manuals/ · publishing/ birth dates, edit histories, a proposal inside a page
register: "added 15-08-2026, from the skill non-ai-style" · "One thing was taken out of it, 15-08-2026. The skill used to end by signing every document… Removed on Frank's word…"
ui-review: "The studio reviews itself too. A specification… is written and waiting for Frank's verdict" (the review since ran) · "founded 12-08-2026, first client Vox Populi"
manuals: "founded 12-08-2026, first client Vox Populi (« Mairie de Valmont »)"
publishing: "Why this exists. A page on the Mac helps nobody." · "opened 15-08-2026" · "installed 15-08-2026"
The design rules pair how-it-was-made, and a plan for things that exist
documentation-design.md: "Captured 2026-07-19 from four sources Frank gave, mined by four agents."
documentation-design.md: "## Next (proposed, not built)" — all three items now exist.
documentation-compendium.html: "This kit did not invent its vocabulary. It reviewed four sources and kept what survived…"
The speaker family confessions, a narrated decision, a published personal message
people/: "Why this box exists. On 10-08-2026 the rule was already written… and the session did not open it before spending…" · "Both were learned the expensive way, twice."
mensaje-para-nelson.md: "Para Frank. El asistente ya existe… Tú decidiste esperar al paquete público…" — the file retires either way.
voice/: "Added 12-08-2026, because it turned out to be the half we had never written down."
voice/visual-proposal.html + icon-candidates.html: "for your verdict" · "pick one per row" — approval pages whose verdict was rendered; archive with their three siblings.
Motion, film, diagramas, body, benches, inspiration, skills, all "what this is" labels and opening dates
motion references: "What this is. The second recreation prompt Frank captured from Viktor Oddy's work (31-07-2026)…" — the label and provenance on four references.
motion-design.md: "Opened 31-07-2026; rebuilt as a cookbook 02-08-2026." · research-entrance-images: "This file is research; the recipe is the next step." and a section titled "(for Frank's verdict)".
film.html: "An evaluation of what this improves in our skills is underway; nothing is folded in without Frank's verdict." · "Frank adds new ones as he finds them." · "opened 02-08-2026".
diagramas footer (a class literally named "prov"): "Born 06-08-2026 from the Sistema ABC concept note… other subjects will come…" — keep the two method pointers.
body: "opened 14-08-2026, from an advert Frank found." · benches: "benches linked here 15-08-2026" · inspiration: "Added 08-08-2026." · "This is the reference library the fun-expert agent was missing." · skills: "…cleaned for sharing." · all.html: "opened 31-07-2026" · impeccable-integration.md: the "## Installation note" war story · kennedy/adoption-proposal.md: "For Frank's approval. Nothing below is merged yet…" (stale on both counts).
Titles to rename the register forbids colon titles; six doors use one
| Today | Page |
|---|---|
| "The UI review: real screens, findings with repairs, for a verdict" | ui-review/ |
| "The user manual: the software at its best, real screens, plain words" | manuals/ |
| "Putting it online: three roads, and how to choose in one question" | publishing/ |
| "The register of a document: how the text sounds, decided before it is written" | register/ |
| "The design benches: where a project keeps its visual ideas before deciding" | benches/ |
| "Since 07-08-2026: the best-looking parts are BORN, not repainted" — an "X, not Y" with a date in the title | factory.html |
| "Voice: the drawings, for your verdict" — an approval request as a title | visual-proposal.html |
| The three liked-model titles ("…the model: light without lights, 3D without models") — clever pairs | inspiration/liked/ |
| "Studio tool register — what Claude can drive, and for what" — name-dash-explainer | tools.md |
Clean pages, for the record. The front door, the formats family, the Kennedy digests, the guide, the ten Oddy digests, both project benches, franks-baseline-ux.md, document-families.md.
5Five gaps, two halves, seven skills the studio never names
Frank's real asks of the last four weeks, checked one by one against the studio.
| His ask | His words, date, where | In the studio? |
|---|---|---|
| Draw a software screen in a page | Hand-built mockups beat scaled iframes (19-07) · the RAB drawing format (22-07) · the eRegulations screens board (05/06-08) · "clickable mockups of the two surfaces" (13-08, BellaMusic) · pantallas live for the government (17-08, ABC) | ✖ An inbox note since 19-07; the eR mockup kit invisible from here; "mockup" finds nothing |
| The demo of an app | "we will use it to build a nice demo when the app is ready" (02-08) · presented to City Halls · "la forma ya probada" (17-08) | ✖ The app-demo skill is a register row; no card, no page; "demo" finds nothing |
| A board | His board-anatomy verdict (29-07) · cockpit, tablero, changes-to-services weekly | ✖ The verdict sits in the inbox; "board", "dashboard" find nothing |
| The front page a counterpart receives | "All the pages, one page" (12-08, ABC) · the Sistema ABC index (13-08) · the eRegulations index (11-08) | ✖ The counterpart-intake-page skill has zero studio mentions — proposed as a tile on the new formats page |
| Charts | Parked 03-07 · the ICA mini-chart (13-08) · Central is a financial tool | ✖ The dataviz skill unnamed; "chart", "table" find nothing |
| Photographs in a page | SCRC: cut-outs, Commons credits, image bands per room (09-08) | half The images chapter "pending" since 19-07, nothing written |
| A presentation | Two City Halls · Central and EBS team decks · his deck criteria file | half "deck" is a tile and a search word; no page owns the practice, the criteria registry unlinked |
The skills the studio never names. venture-pack · counterpart-intake-page · courrier-officiel · compte-rendu-de-reunion · payment-brochure · law-to-html · narrated-page — the last one lives in the studio's own public pack. Each is a document format Frank asked for once; each belongs as a tile on the new formats page, one line and a thumbnail.
6The order of work, four sessions and two halves
Cost. No purchase, no service, no rented computer.
For the AI
Evidence gathered 18-08-2026 against the live site: full-file inventory (118 pages) · fresh captures at 1440/390 px in studio-reshuffle-15-08-2026/ (per-page folders: desktop.png, phone.png, audit.txt; thumbs in thumbs/) · commentary sweep of 109 pages · asks harvested from 5 - Handovers/ since 25-07. Machine twin of this page: studio-reshuffle-15-08-2026.md. Prior review: studio-review-15-08-2026.md. Capture caveat: Chrome cannot photograph a page taller than 16,384 device pixels; the design-rules 2× capture is corrupted that way, a clean 1× recapture sits beside it. Nothing was edited outside this folder; publish.sh belongs to the main session.