There’s a mistake at the core of Apple’s new Liquid Glass hierarchy. It’s that because the new material introduced for the design is semi-transparent in a new way, it should go above content whenever possible, enriching the experience.I think this is untrue.I think this new material makes for a visually appealing...

Your name is ALAN DYE. You work at APPLE COMPUTERS INC. You have recently shipped a controversial new DESIGN SYSTEM, centering around LIQUID GLASS. Luckily for you, the system is still in BETA. Your goal is to tweak the parameters of Liquid Glass to achieve a balance- your company values HARMONY, HIERARCHY and...

I find concentricity in design beautiful.There’s something deeply “correct” to my brain about how from the bezels to the apps I use the most, a single anchoring point guides the design. And even with my deep love for concentricity- I also think applying it to everything is deeply misguided. macOS 26 Tahoe feels like...

I had a lot of hopes in the UX of Image Playground since it was announced. If we leave aside the fact the images generated by the app are still, just not very good, the process of image creation itself was promising to bring something new to the table that I feel went amiss. Here’s a quote from WWDC 2024, regarding...

Aside from the usual eye-rolling the word “Content” brings to many of us who put passion into our work, I have to wonder how much Liquid Glass will really do for all this Content that Apple seems so excited about bringing even further into the foreground.I mean, I like it. It’s a funky and genuinely fresh design...

I wanted to pay some attention to a smaller design update across iOS 26, which I believe shows great insights on hierarchy and reachability from apple. The new Search bar in iOS 26.No, I don’t know why I have a contact labeled “Finance”. In all but a handful of apps1 in the iOS 26 Dev beta, the Search bar has moved...

Exactly what it says on the tin. Siri App. Apple Search. visionOS with no Vision. So I can say “I told you so”. Siri App As I predicted before, Siri will smoothly settle into an interface of its own without escaping back into the bezels.Visual Intelligence will get a new verb called “Show Siri” or “Point to Siri”,...

Siri is way too happy to vanish off into the glowing bezels which it now haunts.If you want to make Siri smarter, let it remember what it says for more than a second. This isn’t about personal context or longform token memory - just let me have a log of my chat with Siri. While most of the time I ask her to do...

Jony and Sammy are cooking up something fierce. As you definitely already know, Jony Ive & his team and OpenAI are now working on… something new, and AI-y.It’s being worked on in secrecy and stealth to avoid imitation, which I understand, but it leads to a weird promise of a promise that’s hard to feel confident...

I got access to the Dia browser’s Alpha build lately, and it stirred many emotions in me. I feel strongly about Arc, and think it’s a testament to beautiful design by people who care. It’s a program made with love and a beautiful eye for detail and craft. And I wrote a long blog post decrying the lack of craft in...

Forgive the topicality, I do like not just commenting on rumors, but also they’re fun and I like the hype for WWDC, so I wanted these thoughts written down before the day cometh.Either way, I really want to quibble about the rumors of the possible upcoming redesigns of Apple’s OS’s to “look more like visionOS”. For...

What do you value most about your phone? Is it the great pictures the camera lets you take? Is it the beautiful screen with which you see media on? Is it the endurance and reliability of its battery and processor, making you feel at ease even at low battery levels? Maybe it’s just the way it feels in your hand? The...