Good to see that liquid glass is not just for the app icon. Happy to see the apps getting updated. However would have been even better if all the Apple apps were updated on day 1.
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Apple Store App Gets Liquid Glass Update With New Icon
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Dude, are they really confident about this new design language? The whole community told them it is not good, yet they are proceeding with it. For goodness' sake!
The rendering performance simply isn’t sufficient compared to what is showcased in their demos and examples. It doesn’t align with their vision, and there are too many issues with the layers. Overall, it frequently fails to work and tends to be quite unreliable. Choosing this option feels misguided. Aqua offered a far better approach to implementation. It’s frustrating to see individuals who lack an understanding of design language, user interface, and the development cycle claiming it looks great. From another perspective, people with this viewpoint are going to be increasingly disappointed. If the company continues to ignore feedback from the community, they risk losing many users. It is disheartening to see how Apple is becoming increasingly untrustworthy.
I hear your frustration, and I agree that Apple’s demos can set expectations that early implementations don’t always initially meet. That said, it’s too early to conclude that Liquid Glass is fundamentally misguided or that those who appreciate its direction “don’t understand design.” People who understand design were involved in Liquid Glass design. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean people who do don't understand design language and user interfaces.
What Apple has shipped so far is clearly a first iteration—imperfect, sometimes inconsistent, and still improving—but it also reflects a deliberate shift toward a more adaptive, depth-based interface model. While it might seem minor, this is a huge shift in how the UI works. There is always push-back to change.
Aqua was excellent for its era, yet it solved a very different set of constraints and expectations. It also took time to mature. I mentioned it because Liquid Glass, which much different than Aqua, is at least acknowledging it. Aqua was more of a skin than a whole cohesive design across devices. In contrast, Liquid Glass is attempting to unify dynamic lighting, motion, layering, and spatial separation across a much broader device ecosystem than Apple had at the time. That is significantly challenging. That transition will naturally be uneven.
Most of us want the same outcome: a stable, coherent, and thoughtfully designed UI. Constructive criticism can be valuable when offering suggestions for improvement. However, dismissing others’ views or presuming they lack insight about design language, UIs, and development is not helpful.
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three pages of people complaining about an icon design. 🤦♂️
Liquid glass is so cartoony and bad. It's not as if what ever it was before was great, but at least it was easy to look at.
Liquid Glass UI is so bad. I hate it. I dont know why they thought this looked nice. WHAT HAPPENED TO MY MINIMALISM?!
That will happen when Apple's 1+ Billion happy and active/repeat customers who purchase Apple products year after year after year, stop purchasing Apple products.
I think it'd be more fun if this icon had some flair of a real retail Apple Store
I like the dark mode look of this icon better
Omg I get parallelogram vibes in this isolated look
Omg I get parallelogram vibes in this isolated look
Yeah, we get the metaphor, but understanding the metaphor does not make it look good. It looks cheap and is distracting with how it's always moving around.
shift to adapt to what exactly? how do see-through icons and menus give interface 'depth', whatever it's for? can you somehow click through them? just parroting marketspeak gibberish doesn't make it make sense.
presumably until this vaseline delight, it was anything but.
I don't have to be involved to notice a shift to gimmicky.
There was no need to be defensive. I was just asking out of curiosity because if you were in the field of UI design I wanted to ask you some specific questions about Liquid Glass.