Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by coldtea 263 days ago
No. Liquid glass wont even make it past 1 macOS/iOS release. In fact Apple has already scaled back many of the glass UI parts they've shown in the earlier demos and betas.

It's an ill-though change for change's sake. Nobody is that impressed.

Flat design was more fully thought. But even that was useless and ultimately user hostile.

"Skeuomorphic" (which is mistankenly called that, few parts of OS X or Windows at the time were actually skeuomorphic in nature) was just better UI.

3 comments

They would have to fire Alan Dye for that to happen. Discontinuing it without blaming something or someone would be an admission that Apple isn't perfect, and they don't have it in them to do that. I suppose it's either their own egos, or legal won't let them because it will open them up to lawsuits.
to me liquid glass has a hint of skeuomorphism, but with the added transparency clusterfuck that just makes it unreadable.
Agree on flat design being more fully thought.