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Apple Shares Liquid Glass Design Gallery
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I do NOT need the constantly changing colors to attract my attention when I look at my phone!
"teams of all sizes" are creating Liquid Glass experiences.
the experience of looking at your wallpaper through a random menu - how 'delightful'!
Yikes. I thought Apple might just brush this UX under the carpet and say no more about it, given the response. But it appears they're doubling down on it.
I suspect it breaks down like this:
- 20% love it
- 60% don't care, or have barely noticed (e.g the regular mom and pop style iPhone users)
- 20% hate it
First of all, today’s Liquid Glass looks starkly different from what was initially criticized.
Second, there’s still a requirement to manipulate the interface to find or clarify elements in some apps.
This is similar to my earlier reply to someone.
You’re focused on the content of the page but neglecting to mention the usability of the interface. It shouldn’t be difficult to find examples of something that looks off or incomplete or something that needlessly requires more engagement to clarify the transparent UI elements laid on top of the content.
The interface is objectively and measurably bad, as evident from Apple’s own showcase. It may be subjectively interesting or fresh but you can’t claim in good faith that it’s more efficient or ergonomic than previous iterations of iOS.
I think a lot of people are accepting something that’s sub-par from a multi-trillion dollar company when others expect them to at least meet the standards they’ve set over the past 40 years.
A lot of people thought (or continue to think) that large touch screen panels are a better way to operate a car.
They’re fresh and futuristic and they can dynamically display the buttons needed when it thinks you need them - ie, “focus on the main content”. But are they more ergonomic? Are they intuitive and safe?
Will people say yes because they’re accepting and re-learning a boundary pushing UI despite its measurable inefficiencies?
why do you need to 'focus on your content' while navigating some menu, nobody opens a menu or a toolbar or some such to distract themselves from their content, they open it to do whatever it enables them to - menu closed/hidden, back to focusing on your content.
Not quite right. I read a lot of comments concerning LG and my statistics goes like:
- 20% - love it (cool, funny, fresh),
- 60% - go away, I use smartphone for calls, SMS and banking, what's Liquid Glass at all?
- 20% - don't accept it, it distracts me (ok - for some also "hate it").
That's huge difference. I for one always liked changes. Still, LG just makes phone hard to use for me! It distracts me from useful content - too much "cool stuff". It's a shame that Apple, company focused on health and accessibility, suddenly decided to left huge % of their user base in the cold! Real shame!
All of their customer base deserve to get usable product - younger users who like "cool stuff" and older with more "conservative" needs. LG definitely doesn't meet such requirements. And that's bad.
This is the problem I have with it.
It's been a long time since a critical mass was speaking like this about a new version. I'm thinking probably all the way back to iOS7 or thereabouts.
Making the device "harder to use", as it obviously does for some portion of folks, really should never be happening.
You're not in the very small minority. Its the vocal minority that moan all the time.
I don't DISlike Liquid Glass per say, I just don't get the hype. It's a UI, a gimmicky UI, but still it's a UI. For me it doesn't make my user experience any better. It looks cool, I guess. Notes and reminders and numbers, etc etc etc are SLOWLY getting better. I wish Apple would put more time and effort into those things - of course the assumption on my part is that there is more they can be doing, but maybe not.
Anyway, maybe Liquid Glass is more than a UI but for me, right now, it just looks like a hobby. Like HomePod or AppleTV (I do have two) or AirPad (which never saw the light of day) or iPhone C or iPhone Mini or . . . iPhone Air
Anyway, maybe Liquid Glass is more than a UI but for me, right now, it just looks like a hobby. Like HomePod or AppleTV (I do have two) or AirPad (which never saw the light of day) or iPhone C or iPhone Mini or . . . iPhone Air
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The Lowe's one is 🤦♂️ because there is clearly a point when the menu bar is unreadable. And this is what Apple is holding up as 'the best of the best'.