Mario Guzmán

Don’t like Liquid Glass? Enable “Reduce Transparency” in Accessibility Settings.

Aside from looking like unfinished work, look how wasteful it is with space! Instead of fixing it, they just make it all opaque and reveals how bad their designs truly are.

Look at Apple Music. All that wasted space in the nav and tab bars. This is good design? It’s almost like you’re being punshed for not using their preferred design.

“Design isn’t just about how it looks. Design is how it works.” Right?

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Dec 10 at 9:01pmIvory for iOS
Show threadTuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦Dec 10
@marioguzman What a giant "fuck you" to anyone needing/preferring these accessibility features this OS is.
Show threadAmnonDec 10
@marioguzman This is straight-up contempt and an abdication of responsibility.
Show threadKaitoDec 10
@marioguzman this is what four trillion dollars looks like
Show threadMark WhybirdDec 10
@marioguzman Thankfully Alan Dye, massively responsible for the design decline at Apple, has left them - and the new guy is someone who actually cares about it. https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job
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.

Daring Fireball
Show threadChrisDec 11
@marioguzman @cdfinder Let's bring back spatial design. Fck those buttons that move and disappear and are always somewhere else! I want buttons that remain where they are because that's how buttons are supposed to work. Imagine a plane pilot trying to push buttons in his cockpit where buttons always move in order to reduce the amount of buttons visible at the same time. No plane would ever fly again.
Show threadNMDoernerDec 11

@splitmind @marioguzman

Yes, please! I hate that I need to search for buttons all the time 😬

Show threadEric deRuiterDec 13
@marioguzman I have iOS 26 on an SE. It is comically cramped with Reduce Transparency.