Hi everyone! I’m Alex on our product management team. We’re excited to share that Bubble’s new App Interface Manager (AIM) is now live in the editor. This change is part of our ongoing efforts to make the editor more efficient and intuitive.
Building on work we recently did to update the toolbar, the new AIM aligns with modern design standards and improves how you manage your app’s web pages, reusable elements, and mobile views. (Check out this interactive walk through to see how native mobile development uses “views” as the building block for each app)
What’s changing?
Here’s what’s new:
Improved asset organization – Web pages, mobile views, and reusable elements are now color-coded for better clarity. This visual distinction helps you quickly identify different types of components at a glance, reducing confusion when managing complex applications.
More visible folders — Folders now have improved visibility with clear growth controls and improved nesting signs.
Better sorting and scalability — Pages are now listed in alphabetical order for easier navigation.
A modernized UI — The design reflects our updated editor design that you also saw with the updated toolbar.
Thank you for your feedback
We want to thank the Bubble Ambassadors and early beta testers who helped us refine this update. Based on your feedback, we’ve already made some changes, including:
Updated the folder management design
Added ability to open context menu with a right click
Your input has been invaluable in making this update a better experience for everyone.
What about the edit menu that is now gone? Replace the element type is not available except when right clicking on the element on the page now which makes it extremely annoying. When is this going to be fixed?
Sorting assets vertically is a great update - no where else would sorting be like it has been as it’s much harder and less intuitive for the eye to scan in a zig-zag pattern over just scanning down each column.
With that said, I get what you say about being used to the old way. But you’ll probably be adjusted in days.
What is the benefit of combining Pages and Elements into a single list? Before it was two segmented lists you could easily collapse the pages to view the REs and vice versa. I think a better improvement would be to sub-group the “Web” stuff (pages, REs) so you can maintain both Web and Mobile views while maintaining the segmented Pages and Elements.
Can I please go back to the previous way of changing the page? It takes 15 seconds for me to open the pages dropdown. By that time I forget which page I was going to, and then even then often the page crashes. I have a long list of pages and reusables and I would rather it not load all of them at once just to show one that I am about to search.
Feel like I’m losing my mind lately. Now I cannot select a page to edit. I hit the dropdown and it shows nothing. Have logged out and in, shift reload to get a fresh reload, but nothing. To edit a page I have to type its name into the URL. Between this and all the system outages…
Attached is what I see. when I click into the search bar at left, next to the Bubble logo. Also, removing the edit menu was a mistake. Please check this out and advise.
It’s slow. Can we have the option to add pages and reusable elements to several folders and with drag and drop. The popup to select a folder is also loading super slow and allows to only add one single folder.
At least some buttons for smart folders like the previous organization method would be nice for us with large apps. This just added another to-do item for me
I may be in the minority here but I am loving the update so far. It is a bit slow to load but once I created my folders of pages I actually use and then accordion down the Web category, it’s much faster. I do wish it remembered this setting across refreshes though.
The alphabetical sort top>down is SO OVERDUE and THANK YOU!
Was it even tested before rolled out? Honestly every feature push makes working in bubble harder - not because the feature change isn’t an improvement (this one is) but because it comes with so many bugs. It’s super frustrating.
Working in the editor today has been rather painful.
Looks really good and clean overall, but lacks a lot of quality of life features, here are my points so far:
Pages/views and reusable elements should be on separate sections (tabs imo), pages and reusable elements are not same type of things and it’s confusing to see them in the same list.
Drag and drop to organize between folders would make everything 600% better
Rename icon would help organizing a lot, right now its 3 clicks to change a page or element name, it would be great to make them just like workflow renaming (clicking rename icon instead of double click)
Also a bug:
Renaming a page/view or reusable element makes it disappear until closing and opening the interface manager.
Yep sorry to join the negative opinions and rant but this is a bit of a downgrade.
On larger scale apps with lots of pages and reusables, this really makes it hard to find anything, plus the lag slow down either takes 10-20 seconds to render a search or causes the browser to crash after navigating for a few minutes…
Pages or reusables that are organized into folders admittedly look tidy, but the disjointed columns doesn’t really make sense between the divide of pages and reusables. It also initially will glitch out when scrolling on a long list, either forcing back to the top or showing dups in the list.
Also side note is that the dropdown for the active page or reusable name, the width is too short, it makes it tedious to note the active working page or reusable, can it fit to width and gain a bigger max width? We have a number of reusable that start with the same name and are quite long, so its hard to tell at a glance what we are working on.
Thanks and fingers crossed this can be ironed out in the next couple of weeks.
Separating pages and reusable elements is a must. But just like the evolution of workflow tab that have improved over time, I am confident in the Bubble team to continue enhancing this page manager
All for the general logic behind these improvements, but honestly, don’t you do any testing before deployment? We have a huge app, hundreds of reusable elements and pages, and this is PAINFUL.
I’m on a Macbook Pro with M3 Max and 48 GB RAM, and even I’m frustrated by the speed. Can only imagine what this is like on the average 8GB memory computer. Editor is constantly lagging, loading the asset organization takes around 10 seconds.
