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Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

Do you like Liquid Glass on Mac?

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Some great takes here on yesterday's news:

daringfireball.net

Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.
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loby said:
Original Question: Do I like Liquid Glass?

macOS Tahoe 26.0 first release (upgraded my Mac): "I like Liquid Glass..."

Then..wiped my Mac and went back to macOS Sequoia...

macOS Tahoe 26.1(upgraded my Mac again) : "I like Liquid Glass...."

Then..wiped my Mac and went back to macOS Sequoia...

macOS Tahoe 26.2 (UPGRADED MY MAC AGAIN) : " I like Liquid Glass..."

THEN..wiped my Mac and went back to macOS Sequoia...


I have been saying over and over to myself: "I like Liquid Glass.., I like Liquid Glass...I like Liquid Glass" to convince myself and to create positive reinforcement by saying over and over to myself to train myself to like it....

It is not working...
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The last sentence is what describes it best. We can discuss about taste and as others stated taste is personal and there is some good stuff in Tahoe, too. But it is not working. Not at all.

Apple Knowledge Navigator said:
Some great takes here on yesterday's news:

daringfireball.net

Bad Dye Job

It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.
daringfireball.net daringfireball.net
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"What I’ve learned today is that Lemay, very much unlike Dye, is a career interface/interaction designer. Sources I’ve spoken to who’ve worked with Lemay at Apple speak highly of him, particularly his attention to detail and craftsmanship."
I'm so excited and full of hope that some of this will be undone and that at least we get more use of space out of everything again!
 
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johnkree said:
The last sentence is what describes it best. We can discuss about taste and as others stated taste is personal and there is some good stuff in Tahoe, too. But it is not working. Not at all.


"What I’ve learned today is that Lemay, very much unlike Dye, is a career interface/interaction designer. Sources I’ve spoken to who’ve worked with Lemay at Apple speak highly of him, particularly his attention to detail and craftsmanship."
I'm so excited and full of hope that some of this will be undone and that at least we get more use of space out of everything again!
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A glimmer of hope that some of the gawd awful UI choices can be undone.🎉
 
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johnkree said:
The last sentence is what describes it best. We can discuss about taste and as others stated taste is personal and there is some good stuff in Tahoe, too. But it is not working. Not at all.


"What I’ve learned today is that Lemay, very much unlike Dye, is a career interface/interaction designer. Sources I’ve spoken to who’ve worked with Lemay at Apple speak highly of him, particularly his attention to detail and craftsmanship."
I'm so excited and full of hope that some of this will be undone and that at least we get more use of space out of everything again!
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Yes...it "does not work".

For the iPad it "might" work, but if you use your Mac for work and are on it for hours a day, it is currently too upfront or outstanding (distracts). I agree about "discussing taste" as I am trying to limit my taste preference comments, but as an OS right now...

"It is not working..."

I am hoping too that Lemay will bring some sanity into a court jester type bubbly situation right now going forward.

"If" a designer is leaving a company (and He was in the process of exodus during L.G. development it seems), do we think that His heart was in his work before exiting? I think not...

It might be the case with L.G. and Dye's exit. Yes, L.G. does have some "good things", but it will take some time still to hammer out the kinks.
 
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Misalignments in Tips.app.

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Share button just look ridiculous.

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unsui_grep said:
Those poor traffic lights are being shoved into a space that they do not belong. They have no business being in the sidebar in the first place. I just don't get the obsession with the sat concentric non-corners. I get it, apples are round, but so were the portholes on the Titanic.
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I still weep for the loss of titlebars, going back to Big Sur. RIP.
 
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unsui_grep said:
Those poor traffic lights are being shoved into a space that they do not belong. They have no business being in the sidebar in the first place. I just don't get the obsession with the sat concentric non-corners. I get it, apples are round, but so were the portholes on the Titanic.
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This is what happens when you add complexity rather than remove it. They’ve taken an uninteresting-but-very functional UI and reinvented it for no reason.
 
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Liquid Glass may be Apple's biggest OS blunder ever. I suspect that many of the folks defending its bulbous elements and wasted space are the same people screaming for "smaller bezels" on physical screens. Instead, we have a UI which wastes space by layering bordered UI elements on top of other UI elements with no net benefit to the end user. Why does everything have to be translucent? What good is a translucent menu bar or title bar when the background text scrolling through it gets blurred anyway? Why not make it solid? All of these gimmicks make the OS less efficient and make the user feel like they were transported into a cartoon world where function and performance are sacrificed for gawdy eye candy.

Tahoe is full of bugs and performance issues which still aren't resolved as of 26.1. Many things (like right-clicking on an app in the Dock) have a 1+ second delay before the contextual menu appears--why? These things used to be instant. My 2019 MBP 16 still has wake-from-sleep issues, which were introduced in 26.0 and improved only slightly in 26.1, but didn't exist at all in Sequoia (and they disappeared when I rolled back to Sequoia with no hardware resets or other tricks). I've run into screen lock issues twice, where a locked screen will unlock to a visible desktop (with Dock), and I can launch applications but can't type without *then* being prompted for a fingerprint or password to unlock; this is a huge privacy and security bug, since it exposes the contents of the user desktop and potentially data from applications prior to the screen being unlocked. This has happened a couple of times, but it doesn't happen every time, and I have no clue what triggers it to occur. Tahoe, so far, is a huge step back in quality.

I have been a loyal Apple II and then Mac user since the mid-1980s. I stuck with Apple through the worst of times in the 1990s because the alternative was worse. Windows has its own issues, but it's not Windows 95 anymore and still presents a fairly professional, productive environment for the end user. I'm no longer looking to play with cool tech, I want my technology to be productive without getting in the way, and Tahoe is a confidence-shaking experience. It seems like a company once dedicated to creating the best end user experience has gone all-in on appealing to 13 year olds and the anime crowd. The OS and applications can be works of art *if* usability is prioritized, which is a concept Apple once mastered but seems to have almost completely lost.
 
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OddMacFan said:
I've run into screen lock issues twice, where a locked screen will unlock to a visible desktop (with Dock), and I can launch applications but can't type without *then* being prompted for a fingerprint or password to unlock; this is a huge privacy and security bug, since it exposes the contents of the user desktop and potentially data from applications prior to the screen being unlocked. This has happened a couple of times, but it doesn't happen every time, and I have no clue what triggers it to occur. Tahoe, so far, is a huge step back in quality.
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This is not Tahoe-only issue. I have been seeing this intermittently as far back as on Monterey but in different form - not having screen lock popping up after a delay but not appearing at all.

Only common denominator to these two cases appears to be "not-exactly-new" Intel machine.
 
johnkree said:
"What I’ve learned today is that Lemay, very much unlike Dye, is a career interface/interaction designer. Sources I’ve spoken to who’ve worked with Lemay at Apple speak highly of him, particularly his attention to detail and craftsmanship."
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Put "politicizing fashion designer" to lead HI design - "What could possibly go wrong?" :rolleyes:
That is on Dye obviously - he might actually be an excellent fit to Zuckerberg's "executive ecosystem"
 
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Upon release I wasn't sure I liked Liquid Glass. After a few months of using it - it's refreshing and fairly enjoyable. It's the subtle changes I appreciate the most. E.g. Apple Music is massively improved and feels snappy.
 
appleodyssey_ said:
Upon release I wasn't sure I liked Liquid Glass. After a few months of using it - it's refreshing and fairly enjoyable. It's the subtle changes I appreciate the most. E.g. Apple Music is massively improved and feels snappy.
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Apple Music is most definitely NOT massively improved, as evidenced by this thread. Glad you like LG though; you're in the clear minority as the vote count shows.
 
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nmt1900 said:
This is not Tahoe-only issue. I have been seeing this intermittently as far back as on Monterey but in different form - not having screen lock popping up after a delay but not appearing at all.

Only common denominator to these two cases appears to be "not-exactly-new" Intel machine.
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The hardware is completely irrelevant; whatever hardware is officially supported should enjoy the same good user experience.
 
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Two Preview windows, side by side.
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Holy crapflaps batman! I looked at the image for a good few seconds. Didn't see anything but one expanded window. Thought I was missing an inside joke or something so didn't comment. Now you pointed it out though... 🤣

Perfect example of Liquid Ass. If you look it up in the dictionary that should be the picture that goes next to it.
 
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