I don’t necessarily love all of the new Microsoft Office icons as visual representations (looking at you Excel), but as icons and art, Microsoft is absolutely dunking on Apple about how to make Liquid Glass style icons look good.

It tells you all you need to know that I prefer looking at the current Outlook icon than Mail, or even Pages!

#design #liquidglass #icons #ByeDye

There’s a *lot* of talk about how great it is that Alan Dye has left Apple. I agree: UI design has been a disaster under Dye. Liquid Glass on the Mac in particular is a train wreck.

But as I’ve said before, OS X Lion was when the Mac UI began to go downhill. Reduced contrast, full screen mode on maximise, the death of Save As in favour of the useless Duplicate … the UI decay began long ago.

As with macOS Tahoe, there were lots of great technical improvements. But for users, especially novice users, it was a backward step followed by further backward steps.

Let’s hope that starts to reverse, and quickly.

#macos #alandye #byedye #osxlion