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Apple Retreats

by feross on 6/10/25, 2:17 PM with 2 comments

• by 3cats-in-a-coat on 6/10/25, 3:46 PM

  That's a bunch of philosophizing over an incorrect thesis. "Liquid Glass" is terribly underbaked, and fundamentally flawed. It's probably the worst I've seen from Apple UX design yet, in terms of well thought interactions and usability.

  They sure thought out the glass rendering glitz, but never stopped to think how's that in the service of users using their phone in the first place. It's like a movie which spent 200 million on filling the screen with CGI and forgot to have a script worth a damn.

• by bitpush on 6/10/25, 2:54 PM

  > First, hand-crafted UI overhauls are the polar opposite of the probabilistic world of generative AI. One is about deep consideration and iteration resulting in a finished product; the other is about in-the-moment token prediction resulting in an output that is ephemeral and disposable

  The screen grabs I have seen of Liquid Glass shows poor accessibility even in first party apps. It seems like apple didn't even do bare minimum due diligence.