Apple aims for “more personal and expressive” iOS 26 with new Liquid Glass design
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I’ve only seen the screenshot that’s (currently) at the top of the article but wow that reminds me of Vista.
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You know WWDC lasts all week, right? The keynote has always focused on new user-facing features.
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Does anyone at apple have bad eyes and can point out illegibility? Translucent windows with white font and outlines over always changing light-colored backgrounds is impossible to read. This is “beautiful” but unusable.
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The jumble of colors of a bunch of app icons always bugged me, so I arranged them in color groups. I can see this being a version of that with the colors driven by the background. But it probably needs a lot of tweaking to work well… with animations and whatnot. Seems like a design nightmare honestly…
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Kind of the other way around. Macs have gone through a translucent phase a couple of times. First because OSX's display tech made it possible and then again because the designers got out of control. Every time this happens they dial down the transparency as sanity prevails.
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The caption of the article image says the following and thank heavens it is optional:
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I guess this proves that Apple has reached the "better to have bad ideas than to have no new ideas at all" phase.
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OMG, I tried to jump back into the livestream to see if they'd said anything interesting yet, and we're back to 'Check out how LLMs can suggest random shit you can include in a document!' Apparently they are imagining an audience that never heard about LLMs and will be impressed with this? How nice that Spotlight can now suggest 'great marketing ideas' for my Animal Translation Service.
Gil Amelio, we need your 'vision' back at Apple.
Gil Amelio, we need your 'vision' back at Apple.
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Design language is cyclical. We had glass 20 years ago, skeuomorphism, flat "metro", and now back to glass.
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Getting a “Westworld” meets “The Caves Of Steel” vibe.
Not necessarily BAD, just interesting.
Not necessarily BAD, just interesting.
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I don’t understand - why would Apple think de-emphasizing the INFORMATION-bearing part of the display in favor of the NON-information-bearing background? How do they think that is good?
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It’s quite flexible from what I’m seeing in the keynote. They showed a variant with the glass backing but a nice burnt orange icon set on MacOS.
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chaos215bar2
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Am I the only one who likes their UI not to move all over the place just because I scrolled a web page a few pixels?
Not to mention, appreciates having certain portions of the display dedicated to showing useful information rather than trying to pretend to be part of some random web page I happen to be viewing at the moment?
I mean, I'll admit all this is very clever on the part of designers. Perhaps a little too clever for its own good, though?
Not to mention, appreciates having certain portions of the display dedicated to showing useful information rather than trying to pretend to be part of some random web page I happen to be viewing at the moment?
I mean, I'll admit all this is very clever on the part of designers. Perhaps a little too clever for its own good, though?
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Last time they did this, they at least restricted it to just the buttons and chrome. And gave us some horizontal lines in the background to help the eye navigate things.
I'm tempted to make a "you're looking at it wrong" joke, but the problem is that I feel it may be more of a forecast than a joke...
I'm tempted to make a "you're looking at it wrong" joke, but the problem is that I feel it may be more of a forecast than a joke...
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Hmmm. With the new resizing lock screen clock, they didn't show what happens to lock screen widgets. Frankly, for me, the widgets, limited as they are, are more useful than customizing my background. I'd rather they expanded what widgets were available and increase the number that can be shown.
The app updates shown, not much there of interest. And addition of more intrusive AI that suggests things I'm so not interested in.
The app updates shown, not much there of interest. And addition of more intrusive AI that suggests things I'm so not interested in.
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I sort of feel bad for consumer OS designers. Because OSes work pretty well. They aren't perfect, but they're pretty good. They crash almost never. Their security is not perfect, but not the spectacular horribleness it was a decade ago. Things just work. Both hardware and software, things really do work well. (I'm sure there are those will disagree with me, but you go figure out how to get X-Wing running on a system with a SoundBlaster card, printer, joystick, and network card first, and then come back and tell me how horrible things are.)
But it's hard to convince people to buy new hardware, or new software, when what they have works pretty well. And OS developers would like to stay employed, and it's hard to do that when you're fixing edge cases that a minisucle percent of the population will ever encounter.
So we're at the fashion industry part of the cycle, where things get changed randomly, only the newest hardware can support the latest shiny thing, and you hope enough people will need bellbottoms, or whatever this year's hot new trend is.
But it's hard to convince people to buy new hardware, or new software, when what they have works pretty well. And OS developers would like to stay employed, and it's hard to do that when you're fixing edge cases that a minisucle percent of the population will ever encounter.
So we're at the fashion industry part of the cycle, where things get changed randomly, only the newest hardware can support the latest shiny thing, and you hope enough people will need bellbottoms, or whatever this year's hot new trend is.
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The UI in that first picture is terrible. I mean, good that it's optional but why would anyone want that? (Got it, it's for AR interfaces mostly).
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Form over function. Apple has lost the plot.
It will be interesting to see what accessibility settings there are to turn all this crap off.
It will be interesting to see what accessibility settings there are to turn all this crap off.
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With iPadOS, finally a functional multitasking mode that operates sufficiently similar to MacOS that I'll actually use it.
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