Apple just announced their new keyboard: https://imgur.com/b9n5862
Looks good. It has too many buttons, for an Apple product, though. /s
Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
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Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#12> ...floating forms that nest neatly in the rounded curves of modern devices. These clearly defined shapes feel easy to tap and are designed to relate to the natural geometry of our fingers... This reminds me for some reason of my preferred answer to the Microsoft interview question "Why are manholes round?" A: Because the average cross-section of a human being is roughly circular.
I prefer the Feynman approach to answering Why questions... until they throw me out.
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#13I’ve been using it for 2 days now, and the first thing I noticed is that readability took a hit.
My background is a mid tone warm photo, not dark or light, icons got a white foreground that’s very hard to read against their translucent background.
The second thing I noticed, is that when I’m scrolling a webpage, icons now switch color randomly (according to the bg dominant color) and that’s distracting.
The last thing, is that my phone is getting warmer and scrolling has become less fluid, choppy. And that’s on the 16 Pro Max.
What I like the most about this design though, is that it become invisible and let you focus on what you are reading, watching.
Perfect to focus on content, but the user interface has become sometimes unreadable and when you need to interact with it, put the flashlight in a hurry, you are scanning through instead of instantly recognizing stuff. But maybe that’s just new habits to make.
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#14> ...floating forms that nest neatly in the rounded curves of modern devices. These clearly defined shapes feel easy to tap and are designed to relate to the natural geometry of our fingers... This reminds me for some reason of my preferred answer to the Microsoft interview question "Why are manholes round?" A: Because the average cross-section of a human being is roughly circular.
Is that the real reason? I had always heard that a round hole prevents the cover from being able to fall back in the hole
From the perspective of "design the manhole cover first", the reason is that manhole covers aren't just round — they're (very subtle) domes.
A dome is:
1. the best shape for taking stress from very heavy trucks putting all their weight on them without the manhole itself gradually bowing, and
2. is best at transferring that stress equally into the manhole wall (cast concrete cylinder) itself. (A square manhole + manhole cover would disperse force unfairly, potentially gradually cracking the manhole walls / requiring stronger walls. A flat circular manhole would disperse force upon the center of the manhole equally onto the manhole walls, allowing for lower-material-cost manhole walls. A domed manhole cover additionally disperses force from most points on the dome equally into the manhole walls — important, as vehicles won't necessarily be driving over the exact center of the manhole!)
...but really, this is the wrong direction to work in. The original reason manhole covers are round, is simply that the walls of a manhole are best made round, for the same reason drink cans and barrels are best made round: a closed cylinder is great at taking compressive force from a lid above; passing it through as soft, equal tensile force through its walls without buckling strain; and then turning that force back into an equal compressive force on the floor / subsurface.
Most manholes are generally small closed cylinders acting as maintenance areas for nearby pipes, with the pipes coming in through the sides of the manhole walls, and the concrete bottom floor of the manhole resting upon compacted earth.
In this situation, any shape for the manhole other than a cylinder — if driven over for years/decades by cars — would gradually pound the uneven force acting upon the manhole's floor into the earth below, unevenly accelerating soil subsidence. Eventually, you've created a sinkhole below the road, right outside the manhole wall on one side.
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#15I am trying it out and aside from being unpolished it’s also slower. My phone used to be buttery smooth. No longer.
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#16so this did all this transparency stuff without it being the run up to the launch of a new augmented-reality device? I don't understand what they are thinking.
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#17I am trying it out and aside from being unpolished it’s also slower. My phone used to be buttery smooth. No longer.
Early iOS betas are always very slow. On top of things just being unoptimized, they have a lot of extra diagnostic logging enabled.
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#18We have 'instinctive visual cues' for depth and light coming from above, hence why button gradients are so immediately effective,because our visual system recognizes it in milliseconds. we don't have "instictive visual cues" for refraction and lensing , that's why we are confused about underwater distances . That's why magnifying glasses make us dizzy. I just can't believe this is coming from apple.
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#19I think the fact that it supports colored glass, and it has 2 variants, and it promotes dimming layer - says that current implementation is probably not the end of the story
Re: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]
#20When they care more about the words than the usability.