Yup, those toolbars and sidebars are screaming "look at me", because of the shadows.
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Liquid Glass - A must read critique
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Please tell, why you figured it would? I am very curious...
Your previous posts in this thread 👍
And it just makes it all look "dirty" to me with those particular styles of shadows.
I just ... bleh ...
Bring back the hand-stitched leather!
In all seriousness though, the new design works pretty well for the Calendar app.
Nothing in my previous two posts would suggest, that I prefer the new look in your examples. 🤔
It's just in those cases I prefer the look of macOS 26, but that doesn't mean I always like it more (at least not for now). On iPadOs for example, there are MANY visual oddities and broken things.
And I might add: Especially on macrumors, there is always the same cycle. When a new OS is shown/released, it's ALWAYS the ********* OS ever. Until next year, when the next OS is shown/released, then the previous OS (which was the *********) is now much better and no one wants to update. 😌
All jokes aside, for me Aqua is still king and with some modern tweaks and adjustments it would probably look absolutely epic.Bring back the hand-stitched leather!
In all seriousness though, the new design works pretty well for the Calendar app.
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Is that relevant? Would knowing who he is change the validity of his and the opinions of others?
You're obviously running in different circles than I do.
Most of the folks I communicate with around all this are also long long time Mac folks and just about nobody is in the cycle you've described ... rather, it's been one long downward trend.
Most of us in this category vastly prefer the look and contrast and clarity of older macOS.
The "iOS-ification" of macOS is a big bummer to me.
Totally agree with you here.
This is very frustrating.
It's just not a net win to purposely confuse and blur the distinctions between discreet elements of content and input fields and controls like this.
It's the epitome of form over function.
It's just not a net win to purposely confuse and blur the distinctions between discreet elements of content and input fields and controls like this.
It's the epitome of form over function.
Its more than just personal opinion this time though. There are some deep rooted accessibility issues regarding simple things like the legibility of text. I'm not trying to sound all negative: I hope they do fix it up! But with the current internal culture being what it is I wouldn't bet on it.
'most of us'... dozens of ppl? hundreds? thousands? and why should the opinions of long-time macusers be more important than newer ones?
none of us here can speak for all (or most) of us, and there are millions of macusers who don't spend their time on internet forums arguing about the finder icon (etc).
my mac experience is so good right now; even in developer beta 2, running fast, efficient. stable. and i am mostly used to the new GUI, and like it.
nothing's perfect (for example, i have had the dock locked away since 10.3.9 🤯, i don't like it). but that's just me. apple will do what they like, and everyone will have an opinion. and yet, somehow, we'll all get out work done 👍
Main and probably only real problem is, that most ui elements are still completely flat. But here you can see, what it should and hopefully will look like in the final version:
Sure, I’ll happily say it because I want it to get better. I’m actually going to have to use the darn thing. I’m not sticking with iOS 18.
Honestly, an even more authoritarian Apple is going to be just worse on everything and stings many many people. I know it’s tough to listen to critics and not every critics are built equally, with some of them being just whiny.
With that being said, this whole Liquid Glass (just Apples fancy way to replicate Aero Glass) thing and the concern over contrast and readability probably is not going to be something that Apple will bother to “fix”. Some tweaks sure, but remember the monochrome app icon tint feature released last year? Yeah the review on that is somewhat mixed. Granted Apple’s polish probably is the best but app icons are colourful for a reason. Liquid Glass just makes the monochrome situation worse.
If by some magic someone higher up inside Apple realises the criticism and try to fix the problem, we might see some positive changes, such as glass app icon border but retains icon colour. We will see.
What's extra sad to me is when you look at the product line up (software and hardware) and how tiny the updates are, everywhere.
...and then see all this effort being spent on a visual change that is a mixed bag and really not needed.
Apple is accomplishing so little these days if one really looks closely at what actually gets worked on & released.
...and then see all this effort being spent on a visual change that is a mixed bag and really not needed.
Apple is accomplishing so little these days if one really looks closely at what actually gets worked on & released.
I don’t care as much for stitched leather as I miss the contrast, where you could tell what is turned on and what isn’t just by a quick glance, irrespective of how your monitor is calibrated. Modern designers seem to hate contrast for whatever the reason, but also many of them work on 10bit professional displays where a different shade of gray or blue might be good enough indicator of whether something is selected or not.Bring back the hand-stitched leather!
In all seriousness though, the new design works pretty well for the Calendar app.
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That is how I see liquid glass too. Should be named Cheap Plastic.
What is your claim based at? The early developer betas or something else?
macOS FisherPrice is how it looks and feels to me.
toyOS
I guess it fits nicely with their childish obsession with Genmoji
Agree completely.
This isn't really about "flat" or "minimal" vs "skeuomorphic" design ideologies to me, so much as it's about poor contrast and legibility.
If I hate it now, I doubt I’m going to love it in September
Yes, if I have been driving into oncoming traffic for only two miles on the interstate, I can still turn around. But why was I going the wrong way in the first place?