Ex-Apple Designer Reveals 'Living Glass' iOS 26 Concepts

[maxoakland]

Just when you thought telling focus state was bad enough, the final boss of low-contrast illegibility rears its translucent head.

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At least it actually looks like a button instead of just some random text

 

[antonrg]

Do they want people to not see the buttons and struggle while using the phone? I mean it's all cute and cool when you are on your couch at home, but how about seeing these interface elements while outdoors during the day? Will we need to now start using accessibility features if we never used them up until now?

 

[frownface]

welcome back aero

 

[Silverado]

This is what one guy thinks it might look like. I won’t spend my time and energy on speculation and I’ll just wait for the real thing next week.

 

[svish]

Waiting to see the redesign next week. Excited! Expecting to see similar design across all the software.

 

[n-evo]

I'm really hoping we'll get something remotely as exiting as Aqua was at the time. I really miss the cool effects within progress and scroll bars, the pulsating confirmation buttons, etc.

welcome back aero

Please. Aero looked nothing like this.

 

[rubaxter]

Didn't Microshaft try this "My Own Special Idiom" out some years ago?!
It didn't much suck, but it didn't reall make an "I Gotta Have This" impression.
Tim Cook: "Time to Rearrange the Deck Chairs!!!"

 

[AAPLGeek]

Wow, innovation at its finest. There is nothing groundbreaking or even remotely interesting about this so called 'living glass'. It's called "a clear icon w/ an app logo" where I come from.

This. UI designers these days are constantly creating all this ******** jargon to stay relevant.

These examples are basically just a slightly refined version of Aqua. Nothing groundbreaking.

 

[Kevin2055]

Youtubers went through a phase of using glass side panels for old aspect ratio videos. They are incredibly distracting for the content. It's way better to just have black borders instead. I hope it's not the same effect here.

See example below. Look at the sides. Super distracting to the main content - especially in motion.

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controls will fade away when not used, unlike the side banners

 

[Powerbooky]

Glass... this triggered a memory of this clip. Will Siri (or fill in any other AI) be like this in the near future?

 

[HighwaySnowman]

We said the exact opposite 10 years ago, hence we're stuck in a loop.

Pretty sure I never said that. Actually quite sure my reaction to iOS 7 was very much revulsion.

 

[jimscard]

Yes, yes, dear designers. This is lovely.

But just wait until you're over 60 and you have to live with 3 sets of spectacles.

This is the stuff of nightmares.

Don't have to wait to be over 60. The images, like the one with the plane flight "Departing ..." have insufficient color contrast ratios to meet accessibility standards. The standards were set based on what people with 20/40 vision can read - if you don't meet them, that means 30% of working age people can't read it either.

 

[crsh1976]

Pretty sure I never said that. Actually quite sure my reaction to iOS 7 was very much revulsion.

Nobody is talking about you specifically.