Menu item icons in macOS 26 reduce usability – should be optional

Please copy-paste the report as a new report in Feedback Assistant if you agree.

https://github.com/feedback-assistant/reports/issues/685

I’ve got better things to do than write about Liquid Glass (again), and yet, here I am.

🔗 https://lmnt.me/blog/ive-got-better-things-to-do-than-this-and-yet.html

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

Boosts for reach appreciated ✌️

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

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.