Respission of liquid glass from Apple does not seem much

The design, as Steve Jobs, is how it works. If this is the case, the new design language for Apple, which the company It is called “liquid glass” And just announced At WWDC 2025Not something new at all.

The liquid glass appearance comes largely from Visionos, which They are charged with certain restrictions: She had to put digital information on your material world, without dismantling this material world. For this reason everything in Visionos is transparent and glass, so you can see it and see during He – is. Everything with three -dimensional layers, which is an attempt to make digital experiments resemble organisms in space more than the objects on the screen.

Craig Fedrigi, president of Apple Program at the beginning of the developer conference, said the motivation to convert Visionos look at the liquid glass system. This is definitely true: the Apple ecosystem is still narrow, and there are many good reasons for buying an iPad if you have an iPhone or Apple TV if you have a Mac. (We call it synergy, we call it illegal monopoly maintenance, and choose it.) Most Apple devices have a lot of common features, and it makes sense to bring them all close to them closely. Put the items in familiar places, and make sure that things work everywhere – these are all good things!

If we set aside the wild decision somewhat to determine the entire user interface system around an expensive headphone barely try anyone even, and the thing in most Apple devices is that they do not connect digital information about the material world. They are just screens! So the Little Glass Loupe that slides over the text while highlighting the web page will not feel that you are moving something; He will feel that you are flowing on a fake water drop on the screen. Operation control tools that seem to float slightly higher than your content, which breaks its light and colors, and look at my eyes exactly like the Hokey 3D effect. The mobility buttons that are crowned while passing the web page do not look like physical organisms – they look busy and difficult to read. Often, Apple’s executive officials have pointed out that liquid glass is simple and “maintains your content in focus”, but the constantly transformed interface appears to me as it may be more clear.

There is one thing about the liquid glass that I really love. Now, when clicking an alert or an existing element, the rest of the content appears from the inside, as if it was in the thing you just exploited. This is a smart way to keep people consolidate in place. You will not click on something, just to transfer it to another screen, without any clear way to where you were. The list radiates only over everything you were doing, then fold itself when finished. It is very easy to get lost in your phone, and this is a nice touch.

You can not really look at liquid glass without thinking about Windows AeroThe similar glass and transparent design language that was shipped with … Windows Vista. (A difficult comparison, that) with Aero, Microsoft made an effort to facilitate the knowledge of your location on your computer, and find everything you need. You can see through windows to other windows; The limits of the application will change to match the content within; You can use the micro and lively fixed tools to quickly access information. Aero did not partially because he was a great resource absorbing a graphic intense thing. now, Microsoft more colored designAnd more physical, more aggressive – there are shades of dropping everywhere.

Ideas behind both liquid glass and Windows Aero are good ideas! They are defending allocation and allocation, to help people know their location and what they do on their devices. Apple has always been unparalleled in the implementation of this type of things as well, and the show offers we saw in WWDC today indicate that this 3D effect of layers will work smoothly across all Apple devices. But despite all the epic language for detection, I do not see much in the liquid glass that matters. Perhaps we will get more in the coming months, and perhaps developers will discover how to achieve the best layers. But everywhere, this type of transparency with logical layers, there will be many places that look like chaos. This will not change much about how to use your devices or the way you imagine, and at least for my eyes, it does not make it the best appearance. It’s just … a little different.

When watching the Apple advertisement, it is difficult not to read the entire matter as it bears efficiency rather than inspiration. Alan Day, Vice President of Apple Design, began part of the keyword by returning to iOS 7, and its simple appearance on layer. “Now, with strong progress in our devices, silicon, and graphics technologies, he said:“ We have the opportunity to lay the foundation for the next semester of our program. ”Liquid glass has been updated.”

In this broader sense, it is logical that this is the place where Apple landed. Obviously, he will not be able, and may not be able to change the appearance and appearance of each device that makes billions of users around the world. Nobody wants it. So, Apple took all its elements and made it more universal: everything is a little more, a little more, and a little less designed for a specific screen size. A floating list of black and white symbols that work largely anywhere, do you know? By converting the lists into breaks out of the buttons, the Apple prevents itself from having to improve each list of each device and screen direction. Liquid glass is the lowest common denominator, to be done as possible.

But I am not a fan, and I am not optimistic. Apple is at its best when it has strong opinions on how things work; Even trying to get out of the road and allow your content dictate everything looks like the wrong fridge. In addition, you spent last year in tampering with colored iPhone screens and matching new colors, which often make your device ugly. I don’t see a reason because liquid glass will make my devices better, simpler or more personal. I only see the buttons that are difficult to read.