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Loving Liquid Glass—but macOS needs to catch up
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Apple Park is now powered by a dynamo attached directly to the body of Steve Jobs spinning in his grave at 8000rpm
there's a difference between uprgrading every year and switching to a completely different OS
fact is they've taken away screen real estate to add cartoony effects to macOS
it sucks but I'll get used to it like I always do
maybe it is time to look in to different browsers though
oon top of that they've messed up the sidebar completly
and now if you open a new tab in the background with a bar full of tabs, it will not even show that the tab has opened at the right side of the bar it just opens it out of the screen (if you use the option to not follow the focus after opening a link in new tab)it is crazy funny bc it really looks like an early alpha stage and knowing ther will be no updated siri for two or three years more, not sure what the team was actually working on the past couple of months. I will not believe that thousands of designers were just creating new icons. I remember when Apple was switching gpus, file system, and not even one iteration of a dev beta was so crazy bad and unprepared. I think there is zero chance it will be completed before the end of this year.
ps. funny how the whole wwdc was about the same experience from ios, macos etc. and even the wallpaper is different for now and you can't make the ios and macos look similar in any way.
You seem to misunderstand
I upgrade every year, but have been using macOS for decades
Accessibility was my biggest concern after seeing some examples. But after watching this video, I think it’s more of an implementation issue than a design oversight imho. Or maybe it is what happens when a concept is created in a vacuum and breaks in real-world context. We'll see. I do like the "science" behind it. Either way, it’s worth a watch as it seems legibility was, ironically, part of the brief!
Also, all screenshots shared here on MR are nowhere near what you see in the video in terms of quality and fidelity so hopefully things move in the right direction
Also, all screenshots shared here on MR are nowhere near what you see in the video in terms of quality and fidelity so hopefully things move in the right direction
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This is a beta & refinement will come in the next few months. Hopefully many of the issues brought up here will be addressed!
It looks bad when there's not really any liquid *ss effects at all:
Here's a finder window - not the active window. "Show Status Bar" is enabled:
To me, this is a dog's breakfast of UI design. Yes, it's the first beta, but...
Here's a finder window - not the active window. "Show Status Bar" is enabled:
To me, this is a dog's breakfast of UI design. Yes, it's the first beta, but...
beta's aren't for testing design, they can make the UI look however they want
they decided that this is what they want it to like, which is insane
it's like a janky home made kde theme
Just a small matter of programming. That screenshot is obviously not what the Finder window is supposed to look like in the final iteration.
Because it doesn't make sense to wax lyrical about concentricity in their design sessions when that is how they want the status bar to look.
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Bugs are bugs.
Some bugs are things like off-by-one errors in a line of Swift code, and some bugs are things like a rectilinear design element where it should be rounded.
Yeah but we know they tweak the design throughout the beta process. We’ve seen that in the past. There are a lot of examples of this — whether it was the Safari tab bar, icons in system settings, etc.
Accessibility needs a lot off improvement with liquid glass. watching that video hopefully as beta's progress it gets better as controls can be almost invisible in a lot of cases.Accessibility was my biggest concern after seeing some examples. But after watching this video, I think it’s more of an implementation issue than a design oversight imho. Or maybe it is what happens when a concept is created in a vacuum and breaks in real-world context. We'll see. I do like the "science" behind it. Either way, it’s worth a watch as it seems legibility was, ironically, part of the brief!
Also, all screenshots shared here on MR are nowhere near what you see in the video in terms of quality and fidelity so hopefully things move in the right direction
example the play/pause etc buttons are invisible when the video has a lot of white in it.
I didn’t know this was possible! (Those enormous drop shadows are what makes my eyes itch – an inactive window screenshot above looks much better)
Because it doesn't make sense to wax lyrical about concentricity in their design sessions when that is how they want the status bar to look.
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Ah yes. Because they always follow their own guidelines….
Mac OS needs a lot of work in the visuals area, especially things like the finder windows. However I can tell you that my desktop looks really nice on the 77” OLED it’s attached to!
yes, looks great as long as you don't open any windows
in this case is the underlying design is flawed
having everything "floating" on top of everything means that bubbles and shadows are stealing screen real estate all over the ui
this is going to need alot more then tweaking, rather an entire rethink of the concept
can't imagine that happening at this point in the process
UI designers yet again trying to justify their existence.. desktop UI has been solved in the 90s and it's been only getting worse ever since