The more time I spend with Liquid Glass, the more I don't understand Alan Dye's and the design team's obsession with minimizing UI chrome and "prioritizing content" instead.
With collapsed tab bars in iOS 26, it now takes me two taps to switch between Library and Music.
Is that…better? The animations are gorgeous, sure. But does it actually *work* better? 🤔
I mean, you know me, I'm not the kind of person who hates change. I love to switch between systems, try new stuff, and be on the bleeding edge of tech.
But things have to be an improvement, and most of Liquid Glass feels like a sidestep with beautiful animations, a great physics engine, and worse usability than before.
We'll see what happens I guess!
Like, let's be honest: does this look good? Is it readable?
The animations are fantastic. The glass effect is a marvel of engineering.
But does it work well?
@sb62 @viticci so if the background has a light/dark checked pattern you want each letter to alternately be black/white ? (or have some sort of black/white drop shadow)
And as you scrolled the letters would flash between black/white as they moved over the background ?
Or you could just not make the surface the text is on almost totally transparent…
Federico Viticci 
SB62
Andy Norman