Jesse Grosjean

Continuing to mess with Liquid Glass design. Wasting so much time.

Some aspects really are cool and fun. At the same time, I feel like the fundamental goal of UI mixed over content is wrong.

Giving Bike default treatment looks OK after I get used to it for a bit, then I go back to look at previous design and it looks so clean and simple.

And then there is question of consistency. Even if Liquid Glass has problems at some point it's better to be consistent with other standard apps.

Dec 7 at 3:18pmWeb
Show threadDr Adam ProcterDec 7
@jessegrosjean oh boy
Show threadDrabDec 7
@jessegrosjean most of Apple’s own apps haven’t even implemented Liquid Glass. Would it really be so bad if you just waited for WWDC to get a sense of how quickly we can expect Apple correct the mistakes with the current UI?
Show threadJesse GrosjeanDec 7
@Drab Really? On macOS 26, I feel like they pretty much all have, in the sense that they all have glass sidebars and glass toolbar buttons. It's true that the "liquid" aspect isn't used much, but there's glass all over the place.
Show threadJesse GrosjeanDec 7
@Drab I guess you mean their apps that don't ship with system, like Pages, Keynote, etc. But the Finder and apps that ship with macOS seem to all use glass.
Show threadDrabDec 7
@jessegrosjean correct, I’m referring to Pages, Final Cut, etc.
Show threadJesse GrosjeanDec 7
@Drab And last... yeah you are completely right an option is to just wait a bit. And that probably make sense, but at the same time it's yet another option to consider in the design space :)