You know what? I'm gonna say it

I actually don't mind Liquid Glass at all

Close enough, Welcome back Aqua

We bitched for years about the modernisation and stagnation of visual design in the OSes we used, and we got back almost verbatim what Apple took from us with iOS 7 and MacOS Yosemite

It brings back a lot of animations and visual features that got cut in recent years including things like the Unlock animation with the icons sliding in- i've noticed a lot of details like that making a comeback that were already a thing in older versions

Yes it needs tuning, yes the readability isn't perfect, but i think it's a step towards something less fucking flat and miserable and i'm okay with that

Granted i'm speaking from the hope that this will get tuned up in later betas to look better, and if that hope is dashed then yeah it'll be kinda shitty

But from where i'm standing, it pays a lot of respect to Apple's visual design legacy, provides space for them to focus largely on stability instead of feature improvements (please god please take the opportunity), and gives me belief that maybe there's hope for a more wholesale return to the era of realistic material in UX and a marriage of the readability and utilitarian nature of flat design and the comfort and nostalgia of skeuomorphism

This might yet be the future that Aero style design promised, let's not reject it JUST yet

I haven't been *excited* to use my phone in a long time, but this at least makes me excited to look at it, and fuck, i'm running buggy ass beta software and it's still more engaging than it's been in years

No, it's not perfect, but neither was that golden age of phones of which we all hail from around 2005

Fun is almost never perfection

And they still have time to work on it and get it as close as they can to being a functional product

We wanted fun, we wanted friction, we wanted this, let's let 'em cook

@BunCube the funny thing is that when they released the video for Liquid Glass, the thumbnail had the words horizontally but apple forgot that the youtube play button appears in the center, and it so happens that "Gl" in Glass is covered by said play button so it read like "Liquid Ass"

afterwards, they noticed and changed it and put "Glass" on a new line