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Woensdag maakte topvrouw Linda Yaccarino onverwacht bekend dat ze vertrekt bij sociaal medium X. Haar taak was de druk op eigenaar Elon Musk verlichten, en het vertrouwen van adverteerders terug te winnen terwijl hij radicaliseerde.
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The more time I spend with Liquid Glass, the more I don't understand Alan Dye's and the design team's obsession with minimizing UI chrome and "prioritizing content" instead.
With collapsed tab bars in iOS 26, it now takes me two taps to switch between Library and Music.
Is thatโฆbetter? The animations are gorgeous, sure. But does it actually *work* better? ๐ค
I mean, you know me, I'm not the kind of person who hates change. I love to switch between systems, try new stuff, and be on the bleeding edge of tech.
But things have to be an improvement, and most of Liquid Glass feels like a sidestep with beautiful animations, a great physics engine, and worse usability than before.
that's one of the big things, other than the obvious visual issues. I have yet to see *anything* about how it actually improves the experience for the user.
Iโve been trying to come around to it, but none of it makes sense to me. So many backwards steps in usability, and despite their quest for simplicity I feel like all the layering and transparency makes everything look so much more busy and cluttered than before. Struggling to find a logical reason for any of these changes.
I know what happens. My 75-year-old father calling me in the middle of the night (because he lives 3 time zones behind me) in a state of utter confusion. Luckily, he still has a landline phone, so he wonโt have to figure out how the phone app on the iPhone works to call me.
@gedeonm I agree! I think the glass stuff is fun and pretty but damn the balance of that vs usability is all over the place. Just bring back aqua, pinstripes and all ๐
@gedeonm Iโm surprised you think, say, this looks great. I can only assume you mean very generally. Because there are so many specific parts of these systems that make text literally unreadable that itโs bonkers. And adding some frosting effects to some of the glass barely helps.
It looks great and is quite usable on a simple gradient wallpaper like I use, but I need to remember that most people use photos of people and pets on their lock screen.
Those animations are fantastic only if they donโt make you sick. Even now, *13 years* after I wrote about vestibular issues for The Guardian, this stuff still isnโt baked in. Instead, itโs a case of trying to convince Apple to fix things during the beta run and, just as often, begging them to sort it within a few months of September.
For a company that claims to care about accessibility, the 26 systems are a disaster right now. Even when accessibility settings are turned on.
I just want the cool liquid movements and flow between actions and apps but with legibility. Iโm happy for them to switch things up but this is tough.
What would Liquid Glass look like under someone else as design lead I wonder?
I think the problem is that your content is too distracting. Try thisโฆ throw out all content that includes text, or facesโฆ anything that might capture your attention or draw the eyeโฆ you know, family photos. As soon as you start taking only blurry closeups of grass, stacked bricks or sandโฆ anything thatโs a nondescript texture, youโll be a lot happier. Now your content can truly be showcased, because your content is the most important thing.
stacked notifications seem particularly broken now. I mean if all of them are so transparent then why arenโt you seeing the content of all those stack items or at least seeing some kind of deeper layered distortion of the backgound image if rendering the actual card content isnโt feasible. I guess itโs the same issue today with notification stack but because is so opaque itโs less noticeable. This stands out as broken reality to me.
Apple always told developers to use good contrast. But liquid glass lacks itโand overall, it doesnโt make sense. I donโt see any advantage. Most actions even take one more tap.
For the first time ever, I have not installed the betas on a device yet and its soley to do with this redesign. Maybe in later betas once they tamp it down, but for now im sticking to iOS 18.
arguably itโs actually getting in the WAY of contentโฆ prioritising visibility of a background image over readability of potentially time-sensitive notifications feels like an odd choice
I don't know why they are doing this. It feels like something they are going to have to spend the next few years walking back until we end up with something like what we have now, and then it will time for a new redesign and weโll start the process over.
dabblet.com/gist/c3e7a606b444dโฆ Wavebeem on cohost made this recreation of vista in pure css. I guess the frosted glass effect is both easier on the hardware and improve readability. The two other point that jump to me are the text on the frosted glass is color + softoutline so it's readable on dark and light background and the main content isn't displayed on semi translarent panel
I hate this change with the Share Sheet. I use it all the time for many shortcuts Iโve created. Now itโs an extra tap to see the entire menu. Worse, the fourth item is hidden at first due to having to tap the 'more' button but when I do, it isnโt in the dropdown list. It replaces the button to expand the list instead.
I think the general paradigm they are moving towards is your OS learning from your usage and it knowing what you wanted to click on and just surfacing that. One already current example I can think of is my night time routine: When I open Audible at home around some time at night - a lot of time itโs already connected to the HomePod in my bedroom.
I could imagine they are aiming for more experiences like that.
Most people wonโt know this, but when the tab bar is collapsed you can hold your finger on the icon for the current tab and swipe to switch between tabs. The tab bar will expand automatically, no need to tap twice.
Best we can hope for discovery here is that influencers will discover this gesture (possibly by accident) and it will become part of the "hidden iPhone tips & tricks" videos on TikTok, so at least some portion of the population who uses TikTok (I don't) will know about it. Not ideal, I know.
@gracjan Same with the camera modes (at leas ton iPad OS, didn't try iOS). Actually there it's even worse. Tapping select photo or video, tapping again doesn't do anything, but LONG PRESSING on an already selected control reveals the further modes. Madness.
Liquid glass leaves developers the freedom to collapse tabbars when they feel that navigation isnโt the most common or important action on the screen. But it also allows them to keep navigation visible where thatโs not the case. The AppStore never collapses its Tabbar, for example.
It just so happens that the Apple Music developers chose poorly. I wouldnโt blame Liquid Glass for this though.
theyโre shipping concept cars at this point. While they think itโs cool, flashy, and fresh it is also impractical and harder to use. All form. No real function.
it feels like none of these folks had to live in a command line only world, so they donโt understand that the competitive advantage of the GUI was its ability to surface options at a glance. GUIs have become as inscrutable as a prompt, and yet slower to use when you _do_ know what you want.
bigger and bigger phones; less and less use of that real estate utilized wisely. Sometimes it feels like Apple is still designing for a 3.5-inch display.
wanna talk about the new phone app experience? I am probably holding it wrong, but now I find myself tapping two or three times when it used to be just one ๐ฅฒ
The change that drives me insane is the camera. Open it from the lockscreen, and try to quickly switch from back to front lens or vice versa. You canโt, the button is hidden. Good luck figuring out what you need to do because tapping โPhotosโ isnโt it. (Swipe to video and back.)
I was just watching this WWDC22 session โExplore navigation design for iOSโ in it the designer said explicitly โavoiding hiding or moving the tab barโ for the exact reason of avoiding the two tap issue you mentioned ๐ค developer.apple.com/videos/plaโฆ
...we should all have faith... the new apple glasses will give us all hyper-retina-eagle-eye vision... the moment it hits the market. until then... well buy some decent lupe to read the signal from the noise of this.
in some way it's a sign for too much computational horespower in our pockets, if we can waste this much GPU cycles to stuff like frosted glass.
how about instead improving the "mark some text" function in any textview? that needs sone real improvement.
i posted what i had to post on the iOS 6-2-iOS 7 transition already: thetawelle.de/?p=2279 most of this is still true. maybe lets try the other direction sooner than later and have less of a distraction in iOS 27... ๐คฃ
itโs a noble idea that would work better if some of the long standing app paradigms were also questioned.
Let content take focus with only the actions that are necessary showing up, sure, but how do we build a UI that dynamically adjusts to the necessary actions?
The current paradigms have you stick them to the UI statically and have no way of being adaptive and consistent at the same time.
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