Steve Troughton-SmithOn the plus side of the design language, look at this and tell me we’re not almost back to iOS 6 levels of chrome. Nature is healing…
The Add Homescreen Widget panel on iPad looks like it’s straight out of iOS 6, with the opaque panels, blue tints, and generous drop shadows
macOS Golden Gate doesn't look 'refined', it looks retro. It's honestly shocking at first launch. It's like we've slowly moving into a timeline where iOS 7 never happened
Seeing nav bars return is wild; they painted themselves into such a corner last year that they had to hit the "break [Liquid] Glass in case of emergency" lever
The Liquid Glass version of Pages on macOS 27 almost looks like it could be running on Mac OS X Tiger. Can't wait to see what this OS looks like after apps refresh their designs to fit in
The glassy toolbar shapes are so nice now on macOS 27 that you kinda want to fill your toolbars with buttons rather than hide away the UI like we have been for too many years
Rafael Fischmann@stroughtonsmith …but it's not perfect. The little squares (grid view) aren't correctly center-aligned inside the circle. 🤷🏼♂️
Nico Reese@stroughtonsmith It's weird how they look so good this year on macOS but the iOS buttons (in light mode) are nowhere near as good. They lack any kind of depth. It's like they consist only of a gray stroke around them.
Todd Sizemore@stroughtonsmith More buttons, shorter menus!
Flavien (KodWhat)@stroughtonsmith It really feels like modern Aqua, it was my first thought after updating
Moss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{@stroughtonsmith
I would prefer clearly visible, high-contrast buttons on an opaque background. Can that useless visual clutter at least be turned off?
I would prefer clearly visible, high-contrast buttons on an opaque background. Can that useless visual clutter at least be turned off?
Nick Foster@stroughtonsmith whoa whoa whoa. That’s a lot of buttons. Those should all be within a “…” dropdown menu buddy
amonduin@stroughtonsmith again, this toolbar still fails to return to many solid design principles. This is the actual pages from the late 2000s and it has sooo many more affordances in its toolbar (it also doesn’t make the mistake of squashing the titlebar and toolbar together)
Arcticulate@amonduin @stroughtonsmith Pages ’09 will remain the best of class for many years to come.
@stroughtonsmith This is excellent news!
Karl Baron@stroughtonsmith Now can they bring back Drawers?
John Cleary@stroughtonsmith Depressing that every user instantly knew the problems and it took Apple almost a year to get over their hubris. I can’t overstate how glad I am Alan Dye is gone.
Jonathan HendryI expect they "got over their hubris" months ago. Then thought about what to do, planned, prototyped, etc.
@jonhendry @stroughtonsmith Sure, but I meant it more from the perspective of “how did it get to the point of shipping” when we all instantly knew it was bad during the keynote last year and they then didn’t fix during Beta last year when it should have been obvious.
Gavin McKenzie@stroughtonsmith hemlines go up, hemlines go down. but seriously I’m so ready for turning away from the flat sterile world we’ve lived in since iOS 7