Mastodawn

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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Mark Whybird

@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.

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