Through the Liquid Glass
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Through the Liquid Glass
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Re: Through the Liquid Glass
#2This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle".
Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel peep.
I could swear we're living in a parody when I hear this being said with a straight face.
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#3This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle". Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel…
where are you getting that compute is being squandered on ray tracing (rather than just metal shaders)?
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#4This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle". Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel…
Yeah this. I'd rather we have NeXTstep back than pastel blurry glassware oblivion.
I have a longing for 10.4 on my old plastic Intel iMac at this point.
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#5This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle". Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel…
where are you getting that compute is being squandered on ray tracing (rather than just metal shaders)?
Not OP but you're right that it's probably metal shaders as it runs on pre-RT capable iPhones. But I've tried it my spare 13 Pro. It's laggy as hell on the betas. Like really laggy. If it goes into RC/release like that it'll go down like a lead balloon.
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#6This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle". Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel…
App icons are per-user NFTs, and when the phone is dropped the accelerometer reports it to the ETH blockchain, and marks the app icon as "cracked", forever that user's app glass icon is cracked unless you pay $50 to AppleCare to get it "fixed"
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#7Narcissism, the post.
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#8> These effects are GPU-accelerated, composited in real time, and built into the OS rendering stack
Sure but it's never gonna be faster or lower-energy than not doing it
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#9My favorite example of the ridiculous icon redesigns remains this one: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510
What fascinates me the most is not how bad the most recent one is, but how it now relies on you knowing the prior forms of that icon to know what the current one is conveying. Apple fans actually point this out as an artful homage, but to anyone not already steeped in Apple products, it's just a shitty icon made of basic shapes. I wonder if Apple has reached the point where they don't need the affordances of the past since people are familiar enough with their past, good designs. People point out that liquid glass will be amazing in Vision OS, and that's probably the thinking from Apple. It's just a shame that we have to unify a design language to the worst possible case: a transparent screen taped to your face. In my mind, that's an objectively stupid design decision, but the Apple fanboys will say, "Look at those little colored squares on the address book icon, what a brilliant reference!" And will be able to recognize from memory how the thing should work, all while the entire UI gets more and more melted.
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#10My favorite example of the ridiculous icon redesigns remains this one: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510 What fascinates me the most is not how bad the most recent one is, but how it now relies on you knowing the prior forms of that icon to know what the current one is conveying. Apple fans actually point this out as an artful homage, but to anyone not already steeped in Apple products, it's j…
And you know what pisses me off the most about that icon? All three of the colored dividers can be seen through the transparent cover. They're all at the same layer, it doesn't even make sense!