Oliver Reichenstein

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Founder of iA. This is my personal account, where I connect the dots between design and philosophy. Follow @ia for official iA news.
Websitehttps://ia.net
A shitpost that's been brewing in my head for a while now
Melon bread and curry bread flavored drinks. Couldn't resist.
At Takeo Paper in Jimbocho.
This is the perspective from which I have typed some of my favorite writing. On the train between Yokohama and Bakurocho.

Using glass as an extension of the screen makes sense. It could be more convincing if glass elements didn’t float below the surface, but felt like they were part of it. Like the fake click effect, some UI elements could be rendered to feel like a dynamic indentation on the surface you touch. Imagine a form field that looks and feels like your phone’s screen has a real indent.

https://ia.net/topics/liquid-glass

(Wrote most of it on the way from WWDC to SF Airport, but wanted to try Liquid Glass first)

Liquid Glass

Design or Kitsch?

iA

Two days ago was the RedDot Ceremony in Essen, where the team received the “Best of the Best” Award for Product Design 2025 for the iA Notebook.

Video of full ceremony has been added to our iA Community playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNFvvaZxMJ6a9hZqooj6d9kD7C2aCNZtX

iA Notebook is featured around the 1:12:20 mark.

iA Community

YouTube

The iA Team will be at the LIFESTYLE Week TOKYO fair (Big Sight) this week to showcase our award-winning iA Notebook.

Come by our booth and say hello!

https://www.lifestyle-expo.jp/hub/en-gb.html

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Menu bar, and windows on iPadOS. A pointer, too. It's just a tiny step now to macOS on tablet devices, right? Right? ☺️
Call Screening and Hold Call are great user centered improvements.
On device AI and new design. Audience goes whoa, oooh, aahh.