Apple's New Desktop and Mobile UI

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Apple has unveiled a new look for their operating systems called Liquid Glass. It's currently available in beta versions of MacOS, iOS, tvOS, and iPadOS, slated for a full release in September 2025.

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What do you think? Although I am not an Apple user, I find this look intriguing and aesthetically pleasing. It almost feels like Apple is trying to bring back the aesthetics of the retrospectively named "Frutiger Aero" aesthetic, to an extent.

Discuss.

 

[Telesphoreo]

I think the screenshots don't do it justice. The animations are so much smoother and fluid than before. I really dig the aesthetic. I hope they'll refine it and bring more glass throughout. Right now, it seems to be a mashup of flat design and glass. I wish they'd lean more into it. It feels a bit awkward having two separate UIs.

I also think it's interesting to see how design trends evolve. We used to have glass interfaces with Aqua and Aero. They fell out of style and I definitely remember them feeling kind of old and dated when flat design came out. Now, flat design feels old and uninspiring. It'll be interesting to see if websites evolve. I wonder if we'll start to see more glassy and skeuomorphic designs from websites in general.