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A few months ago, I posted this image on Mastodon, because sometimes I think the Apple documentation website isn't very good. Many people have already pointed this out, so I won't repeat their...

Norbert Heger Jun 17

Alexander Käßner Jun 17

After a week seeing the new #LiquidGlass now, what is your stance on the new designs?

Boosts for reach appreciated ✌️

Love it as it is

5.7%

Like it, if they tweak contrasts

47.2%

Don’t like it

37.7%

Don’t care about it

9.4%

Poll ended at Jun 20 at 12:21pm.

Norbert Heger Jun 16

Max Maass

Jun 15

Saw this on my kitchen counter today and thought „hmm, ‚Solid Porcelain‘ might be a cool design language, actually.“

Can do the same 3d effects, nice highlights / reflections, and easier to read on than the transparency of #LiquidGlass. Plus, stuff sticking out of the icon is always fun. #iOS #MacOS #WWDC25

Norbert Heger Jun 16

Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦Jun 14

Omg yes this, ffs 😩 via @mindaugasrudokas.com #wwdc25

Norbert Heger Jun 15

Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦Jun 15

Mockup time! What could be a reasonable "middle ground" between the Mac OS design that we have today and the radical Liquid Glass design we saw this week from #WWDC25?

Disclaimer: this does not attempt to solve all the issues of modern Mac OS design, such as cramped toolbars caused by full-height sidebars and combining the toolbar with the title bar. I feel like the Apple of today is too far gone to do anything about those.

Read on to see what I actually tried to address.

Norbert Heger Jun 12

They needed a study to find that out?
https://orf.at/stories/3396532/

Norbert Heger Jun 12

MΛTT Jun 12

Something cool about _the new way_, is Apple are kind enough to include their SVGs in asset catalogs. You can reassemble icons in Icon Composer and re-colour them. *fixed*.

Norbert Heger Jun 10

Steve Troughton-Smith Jun 10

Liquid Glass feels like that earliest reveal of Aqua — flashy, and completely over the top and needing twelve months of refinement and public feedback to get the balance quite right. The problem is, Apple's yearly schedule doesn't allow for that kind of iteration before release; we have about a week or two to get our feedback in, but this plane's going to land in September regardless

Norbert Heger May 31

Are you serious, Apple? Will you now show these nagging dialogs for every app that ships with macOS?

And where’s the “Don’t show again” button?

Norbert Heger May 12

Tim Clevenger

Jan 25