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Me personally, I feel like that Liquid Glass is just Newmorphism with some glassy-like reflections. I'm really not a fan of it, mostly because it's too transparent.

i didnt wanna say anything but i kinda agree. it looks uncanny valley to me. i remember some1 saying it looks like someone trying to design skeuomorphism when they've only done flat design

I'm not a fan either, it just looks way too corporate for me. Not sure why people see big hope in it.

same people who say 'i hate today's flat design'

I don't really have opinions about it personally, that's still better than boring flat design I guess

OP's right. They're doing a step in the right direction but they still haven't figured out how to properly do it.

genosad wrote:It's... fine. What gets in the way of it being a truly appealing aesthetic is the fact that you either go all the way with a 3D feel and zero colors, or else you give it color and make it flat again. If they could find a way to make it colorful without sacrificing the glassy look, I would be more on board with it.

Maybe they could go for a tinted glass look where segments of an app icon could be lightly tented to bring in more color?

I honestly preferred iOS before the Liquid Glass update, all the icons were very readable. On Liquid Glass, the transparent mode on the app icons is an absolute nightmare, and the dark mode icons looks ass (just my opinion). What I DO find very cool however is how they managed the reflection effect "shaders" when a transparent element hovers over something else.

But anyways besides the point, this new style feels like a useless gimmick, change for the sake of change, rather than a big improvement.
We could probably say the same about Windows Aero when it first came out, but at least there was an actual effort of having readability and accessibility there. On Liquid glass it seems more like an afterthought (for those that tried the beta versions, it's pretty evident).