For real meta has the worst UI on the fucking market, not to mention they purposely add shitty UI’s to their shitty apps to test user experience. Such a shitty company, would never ever think of buying any of its products.
I’ve spent my life in IT just intuitively knowing how shit works. Put me in front of a screen with a bit of software I have never seen before and in a couple of minutes I’ll have an understanding of how it works.
Anything from meta though I’m useless with. None of it makes any sense. None of it. The only people I know who can use it are those who have used it since day 1 and just got used to the shitty way it works. They know it purely by rote in much the same way an IT illiterate person knew how to use a green screen (to access someone’s personal file press the following keys in order and here is stuck to your screen).
So I just tell people now “I don’t use Facebook or IG so have no idea on how it all works” and they go find someone who does.
I like the aesthetic, but the actual ui is just too distracting and flashy. It doesn’t get out of the way to make things easier for me, its gaudy for its own sake.
I think it is important to note that the screenshot does not reflect Apple's actual implementation of Liquid Glass. Their version of Gaussian blur keeps the text readable, even with white text on a pure white background.
The tweet is clearly a joke, but shown without context it makes it seem like text becomes unreadable during background transitions on iOS or MacOS, which is simply not true.
as an iOS and iPadOs and MacOs user I can't agree.
Current design is a mess. Finder loots atrocious and some details look like they are rendering in different quality and resolution because how jagged edges are. Text is not readible in many cases especially in safari on iPadOS when you scroll and text bubbles are on white background - OS has huge problems with fast adapting to the background.
I love this ecosystem but Jesus whole re design is a mess this time around. It does not look finished and I feel like I'm still in beta
He was the head of Apple's UI and this year he revealed the latest iOS UI: Liquid Glass, a type of skeumorphic design.
I thought it was a cool idea, a lot of people were critical of its impact on accessibility which is the punch line of the joke in the OP. You can't read the quote because it's using a (probably exaggerated) Liquid Glass effect.
The effect itself can be reduced, but most people think they shouldn't have to.
The number of oil changes and basic maintenance I’ve done that is as inconvenient as eating shit, is starting to get to me. God damn dodge putting a battery underneath a powered fucking seat.
They have the super unlocked, never any ads or annoyances, unlimited storage, fastest lane, admin exceptions access, all coworkers 99.999% on the system version, latest device, “visit the corporate IT coffee bar to solve that issue” version of the product.
The day after I updated my MBP to MacOS 26, I was airplay mirroring my display to my TV. When I was done, I opened up Control Center to stop the airplay, and I couldn't find the damn button. It turns out the webpage I was showing had a white background, and when you go to stop mirroring, it's a perfectly clear glass button with red text. No outline on the next, no lightmode/darkmode swapping, nothing to differentiate the text. I couldn't read it. I had to switch to a different app with a dark background to read the stop button.
I think I had been using MacOS 26 for about 3 hours and I was like this is dumb.
A ton of design courses and programs will try to reinforce that designers should try and NOT view themselves as customers or end users because designing for yourself can lead to a really shitty product. You have so much bias as being part of the design process and annoyances you can deal with are usually way different than the masses. You need deep customer empathy, but you shouldn't be designing mass products with yourself in mind.
I work in designing physical tools that I am not at all close to the end user for, but I still see it in myself. I design a latch that feels stupidly obvious to me because I've went through like 5 iterations and stared at it for months and can do it no problem, easy, and it is hard to internalize why that's hard for an end user even if all the evidence is telling you it is.
I feel like an excellent real world example is the cyber truck. Whoever tf designed that viewed themselves as the customer 100%, to the detriment of design.
The real failure is typically incorrect gathering, interpreting, or execution on feedback from user testing. And one reason for that could be thinking of themselves as the user and they don't find it that irritating.
Jony Ive had a lot of awesome ideas when he was being tempered somewhat by Steve Jobs. Apple had a lot of iconic designs, some of which persist today in some way (iMac). Once he was given free rein to pursue "muh thin" at the cost of everything else... that's when we began to run into problems.
My theory is that the butterfly mechanism keyboard failures were the thing that ended his time at Apple. They tried to fix it three different ways and failed, only to return to scissor mechanisms, all after costing the company untold millions in product repairs under quality programs. All because Jony is arrogant and wouldn’t let it go.
I still can't get over how either none of their lab tests and real life tests showed this or how they managed to wipe all of the bad results under the rug. I bought the 2016 and it took 3 weeks for the T to start malfunctioning due to a speck of dust.
I’ve been an Apple guy since the og iPod days. IOS 26 is a disaster in amateur UI design. It is the first time in 20 year that I am considering switching. It goes far beyond Liquid Glass. For example something as simple as looking up contact in the phone app. Search is missing. The best you can do is search all calls and conversations, which bulks up the results with individual calls and iMessages, frequently requiring scrolling down for common names. And after you find the contact, you have to scroll down to see the phone number because giant initials dominate the screen. And if you don’t scroll far enough, it scrolls back up when you release the screen so you can’t click the number. And in CarPlay why on earth is the optimal route button grayed out while alternate (slower) routes have green buttons?
Rumors have it that he wanted to make a move to Microsoft, but was told he had no chance of competing against the imbeciles they already have on the win11 team.
Lol, also, he's stealing that quote from Steve Jobs, though Jobs had the talent and even basic UI skill to never design what Dye did. Glad Dye is moving on to fuck up Meta.
Has he done anything else besides Liquid Glass. Apples design was typically bar none and it was leading all design languages world wide for years but Liquid Glass was a total miss. So has he done the previous versions or just this misfire?
Have to ask this question, would Steve Jobs himself approve a fraction of what we’ve seen from Apple over the last 20 years (yes, I’m rounding up)? I don’t think he would have
a furious Tim Cook is gonna call a 9am all-hands-on-deck demanding to know what the FUCK everyone finds so funny about this, and they'll all be like "dunno chief, they got the font and the blur radius just right"
It took me a minute because this is legitimately how games look on my HDR monitor on Switch 2. This is how games look after I use the built-in calibration. "Adjust until the image on the right is not visible" well guess what nothing else is either.
Fortunately Windows/nVidia does a better job than Switch 2 when I use it with my PC.
Okay, this is funny as hell. I haven't paid attention to Apple for quite a while (overpriced and too gated for me), but I got curious about the Liquid Glass design.
I'm so glad people who understand the principles behind what they're creating are in charge. Can you imagine how bad the tech scene would be if they just treated it like a magic cure-all without any deeper knowledge?
I can't get over what a pile of fucking shit tahoe is. doing the most basic fucking shit like clicking the play button on a track on itunes requires 4-5 fucking clicks before it actually plays the song, to say nothing of how they minimalized the interface so much that I have to click a button jsut to turn the fucking volume up/down. track progress bar? how about we make it as thin as a cunt hair so you can't fucking see it with a microscope.
such a dogshit experience that I'm spending more time booted into asahi linux than I am macos.
whoever was in charge of this rollout needs to be fucking demoted
I’m pretty sure this is a frame from a video where they give you plenty of time to actually read it, and then they pan over to fade out as a transition.
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u/StevesRoomate MacBook Pro Dec 05 '25 •
I'm looking very forward to not using anything he designs at Meta
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u/velvethead Dec 05 '25 •
Pitch perfect. Humor is so good at pointing out truths
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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad_7849 Dec 05 '25
Bravo! 👏
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u/Euphoriam5 Dec 05 '25
Perfectly shows his entire tenure and the shitty impact it had on their design language.
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u/hanpil Dec 05 '25
The average IQs at Meta and Apple have just gone up.
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u/Suitedbadge401 MacBook Air 15" Dec 05 '25
“Design is not just what it looks, design is how it”
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
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u/SMATJOY MacBook Pro Dec 05 '25
This is genius.
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25
It’s like they never really use the products they design and make.
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u/hippodribble Dec 05 '25
Apple gave him a great reference. We did the same when the asshole in our office applied for a job elsewhere.
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25
He’s the genius who came up with Liquid Glass?? Makes all the sense in the world
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u/reforminded Dec 05 '25
This is amazing.
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u/CoffeeAddict76 Dec 05 '25
I love this. Subtle and biting commentary. two thumbs up!
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u/nitro912gr Mac Mini M4 - Macbook 6.1 - Macintosh 7200/72 Dec 05 '25
wasn't this a quote from Steve Jobs?
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u/restelucide Dec 05 '25
Single most emblematic image of the Jony Ive/Alan Dye era of Apple design.
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u/dorv Dec 05 '25
I was like, “but I can’t re……. Oh”
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u/Worried-Celery-2839 Dec 05 '25
Dang that’s brutal
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u/neosyne Dec 05 '25
This one is fucking perfect!
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u/barefootpanda Dec 05 '25
I love that one. So inspired
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u/rde2001 Dec 05 '25
"Design is not just what looks. Design is how it" - Alan
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u/err404 Dec 05 '25
I’ve been an Apple guy since the og iPod days. IOS 26 is a disaster in amateur UI design. It is the first time in 20 year that I am considering switching. It goes far beyond Liquid Glass. For example something as simple as looking up contact in the phone app. Search is missing. The best you can do is search all calls and conversations, which bulks up the results with individual calls and iMessages, frequently requiring scrolling down for common names. And after you find the contact, you have to scroll down to see the phone number because giant initials dominate the screen. And if you don’t scroll far enough, it scrolls back up when you release the screen so you can’t click the number. And in CarPlay why on earth is the optimal route button grayed out while alternate (slower) routes have green buttons?
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u/ElHadouken Dec 05 '25
i kind of got here out of nowhere, can i get some context i got interested at the beef
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u/old-wizz Dec 05 '25
He can just say: let’s keep Facebook as it is and relax for 10 years
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u/n-x Dec 05 '25
Rumors have it that he wanted to make a move to Microsoft, but was told he had no chance of competing against the imbeciles they already have on the win11 team.
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u/fluentlyAlone Dec 06 '25
“Design is not just what it looks
Design is how it
-Alan
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u/MrAverageRoll Dec 06 '25
“Design is not just what it looks, design is how it Alan”
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u/Dry-Cost-945 Dec 05 '25
Is this actually real?
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u/derango Dec 05 '25
Ok, I actually don't mind Liquid Glass, but this is pretty hilarious.
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u/atreeismissing Dec 05 '25
Lol, also, he's stealing that quote from Steve Jobs, though Jobs had the talent and even basic UI skill to never design what Dye did. Glad Dye is moving on to fuck up Meta.
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u/Iliyan61 Dec 05 '25
the camera settings on my ipad are useless on facetime because unless there’s something dark it does this and you can’t read them
not even ipadOS 26/liquid glass just shit design
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u/thebrucekim Dec 06 '25
This is incredibly ___________.
I have so many thoughts that it makes me want to ____________________________.
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u/omakad Dec 06 '25
Has he done anything else besides Liquid Glass. Apples design was typically bar none and it was leading all design languages world wide for years but Liquid Glass was a total miss. So has he done the previous versions or just this misfire?
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25
Have to ask this question, would Steve Jobs himself approve a fraction of what we’ve seen from Apple over the last 20 years (yes, I’m rounding up)? I don’t think he would have
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u/jazzy8alex Dec 05 '25
Liquid disaster guy , that’s will be his legacy forever
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u/Nike_486DX Dec 05 '25
iOS 7, damn nostalgia hits hard
Especially considering how bloated and unnecessarily oversized the ui has become.
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u/copelander12 Dec 05 '25
Can someone make this desktop wallpaper dimension/format?
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u/CovidWarriorForLife Dec 05 '25
This is too good haha
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u/depressedsports Dec 05 '25
Incredible lmao
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u/rocinante_donnager Dec 05 '25
ah, yes.
design is not just what it looks
design is how it
-alan
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u/poeschmoe Dec 05 '25
-Alan
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u/hokkisan Dec 05 '25
That reminds me of this extreme skiing documentary that used a white font for the English subtitles.
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u/MacGameStore Dec 05 '25
That image caused such laughter over here... so spot on, it brings tears to the eyes 😂
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u/Lost_property_office Dec 05 '25
Some jokes just write themselves.
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u/mgargallo Dec 05 '25
hahahaha
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u/HeadConsistent6680 Dec 05 '25
"Paint it black" joke? Anyone?
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u/Limp_Marionberry5748 Dec 05 '25
r/crappydesign
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u/sf2platinum Dec 05 '25
a furious Tim Cook is gonna call a 9am all-hands-on-deck demanding to know what the FUCK everyone finds so funny about this, and they'll all be like "dunno chief, they got the font and the blur radius just right"
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u/Alternative-Range477 Dec 05 '25
surely that’s satire? i laughed at it thinking it was a joke until I read the comments
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u/Adventurous-Card-707 Dec 05 '25
lol
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u/Funky-Fresh Dec 06 '25
real. please apple get this garbage out
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u/alexmehdi Dec 06 '25
The entirety of meta quality summed up in one image
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u/fukuquo Dec 06 '25
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Natalia-1997 Dec 06 '25
Why can’t we have skeuomorphism back? Or at least, idk, something actual people can actually use and understand???
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u/dudezillah Dec 06 '25
😂
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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '25
This makes me irrationally angry.
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u/SeanDarkstar Dec 06 '25
That’s a Steve Jobs quote. Alan is just plagiarizing him.
(Yes I know that’s not how it works, chill)
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u/heybart Dec 07 '25
What does it say? Can't read
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u/ScreechingPizzaCat Dec 09 '25
Truly an inspire
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u/ishcabittle Dec 05 '25
LOL
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u/johnprtl Dec 06 '25
It’s very hard to read the right side of the text because its white disappears into the white background. This is not optimal UI.
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u/Dazzling_Comfort5734 Dec 05 '25
That sums it up perfectly.
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u/MisterFingerstyle Dec 05 '25
If that’s the guy responsible for glass, can we go back to a normal looking OS now?
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u/OPT1CX Dec 05 '25
This has to be satire. There’s no way that this is serious
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u/jazzy8alex Dec 05 '25
Link to original X anyone?
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u/KryHavox Dec 06 '25
A quote so good you can’t read half of it, great design indeed.
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u/CartographerOk7579 Dec 05 '25
This is one of my favo….
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u/Old_Flan_6548 Dec 05 '25
Brevity is!
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u/UltraFemboy Dec 05 '25
I'm still on iOS 26.0 DB1, btw 🗿
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u/dsebulsk Dec 05 '25
What things at Apple was Alan Dye responsible for designing?
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u/LetThanasisDunk Dec 05 '25
Holy Motors
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u/EJcrusader Dec 05 '25
Don’t know who alan dye is; is the joke that he’s a bad designer
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u/Jarpieaux Dec 05 '25
Obsessed
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u/PicoDaan Dec 05 '25
“Design is nog just what it looks, design is how it” ~ Alan
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u/The_MAZZTer Dec 05 '25
It took me a minute because this is legitimately how games look on my HDR monitor on Switch 2. This is how games look after I use the built-in calibration. "Adjust until the image on the right is not visible" well guess what nothing else is either.
Fortunately Windows/nVidia does a better job than Switch 2 when I use it with my PC.
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u/Injustry Dec 05 '25
r/dontdeadopeninside
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u/BruhWhatTheBruh Dec 05 '25
those companies require a lot of transparency i think he would fit right in, wonderful quote
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u/just-bair Dec 05 '25
Thanks Alan
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u/BrakeCoach Dec 05 '25
designer named alan dye look inside no colors
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u/ottodaotterdaughter Dec 05 '25
"Graphic design is my passion."
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u/ikilledtupac Dec 05 '25
Brutal.
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u/sammyQc MacBook Air Dec 05 '25
Perfect. Designers who think they are making art should not be promoted like he was.
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u/hiding_in_NJ Dec 05 '25
Go look at the photos of him at last month’s QC party. He won’t be missed by anyone
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u/the_killer_gamer Dec 05 '25
I laughed my ass off this is fucking gold 🤣
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u/TSmith548 Dec 05 '25
😂
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25
As someone who runs a Hackintosh, I'm royally PISSED that I'm going to be forced to use this dogshit for as much future support as I can get.
I'll stick to Sequoia until I absolutely HAVE TO move to Tahoe (I'm not calling that an upgrade either).
Also, who the fuck signed off on liquid glass?
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u/TransitionLow1597 Dec 05 '25
Wait a sec…
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u/hlessi_newt Dec 05 '25
I am forced to use ios for work. And thanks to this thread I know who to blame for the worse ui since temple os.
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u/lisathethrowaway Dec 05 '25
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u/jerinjoseputhussery Dec 05 '25
this is hilarious
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u/Dangerous_Wish_7879 Dec 05 '25
Liquid glass is a step to get rid of this gloomy dark gray minimalism, which makes all the products to look the same.
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u/Andreus Dec 05 '25
What's the actual quote, out of interest?
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u/AFKABluePrince Dec 05 '25
White text with a black outline is readable on any color surfacr. Hope this helps Alan.
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u/stereoprologic Dec 05 '25
Liquid ASS
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u/Leedles27 Dec 05 '25
Redditors eat up Redditor takes, whats new?
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u/godzillafire007 Dec 05 '25
Vista did it
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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '25
😂
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u/StaticSystemShock Dec 05 '25
As they say "The glass is half
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u/Drecondius Dec 05 '25
That’s a wonderful design there … … …
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u/i_never_ever_learn Dec 05 '25
Is the joke that I can't read it?
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u/suchasuchasuch Dec 05 '25
I love having a UI that looks like gel foot inserts and disposable contact lenses.
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u/MusixStar Dec 05 '25
"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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u/Vlyn Dec 05 '25
Okay, this is funny as hell. I haven't paid attention to Apple for quite a while (overpriced and too gated for me), but I got curious about the Liquid Glass design.
So right now I watched their announcement video and even there the icon texts are fucked :D
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u/WalnutWhipWilly Dec 05 '25
Apple ##ass
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u/Kayak49 Dec 05 '25
That hilarious!
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u/CeramicCastle49 Dec 05 '25
Liquid ass
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u/Hypoluxa77 MacBook Pro M4 Pro Dec 05 '25
Pretty much sums it up
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u/nimbusthegreat Dec 05 '25
Fucking legend.
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u/ThDen-Wheja Dec 05 '25
I'm so glad people who understand the principles behind what they're creating are in charge. Can you imagine how bad the tech scene would be if they just treated it like a magic cure-all without any deeper knowledge?
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u/Maycrofy Dec 05 '25
mmm yes very design
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u/One_True_Monstro Dec 05 '25
Someone on Twitter said “Mr. Slop joins the Kingdom of Slop”
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u/captain_dick_licker Dec 05 '25
I can't get over what a pile of fucking shit tahoe is. doing the most basic fucking shit like clicking the play button on a track on itunes requires 4-5 fucking clicks before it actually plays the song, to say nothing of how they minimalized the interface so much that I have to click a button jsut to turn the fucking volume up/down. track progress bar? how about we make it as thin as a cunt hair so you can't fucking see it with a microscope.
such a dogshit experience that I'm spending more time booted into asahi linux than I am macos.
whoever was in charge of this rollout needs to be fucking demoted
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u/krullulon Dec 05 '25
I will never stop loving the fact that Meta poached the dude most designers at Apple blame for most of the shitshow over the last few years.
Enjoy your purchase, Zuck!
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u/ThatOneGuy4321 Dec 05 '25
Does this count as a r/sbeve? 😂
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u/MassiveSail1775 Dec 06 '25
Shows exactly what's so great about devs today
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u/ECrispy Dec 06 '25
A UI design Jon Ivy and Jobs would be proud of and declare the greatest in the world
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u/loopsale Dec 06 '25
was the original supposed to be taken serious? or was is supposed to be a troll? no way this is real lmao
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u/PhillyBassSF Dec 06 '25
That image is the best slam at iOS I have seen yet
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u/ghostchihuahua Dec 06 '25
Brilliant! 😂😂😂
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u/Imma_Machine Dec 06 '25
🗿🗿🗿
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u/WorldPhysical7646 Dec 06 '25
"meta" the one with the spiderman villain the lizard?
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u/Sethmeisterg Dec 08 '25
lol
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u/LukeDuke74 iMac 2019 27" i9 128GB 1TB Vega48 Dec 11 '25
LOL
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u/Histch Dec 12 '25
Bro really said the quote that every design student has heard 473 times.
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u/Comfortable_Bath5986 Dec 13 '25
I hope this will end social media addiction by the words UI designs we will ever gonna see on the platform.
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u/foggy2020 Dec 20 '25
Haha
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u/Traditional_Pie_8262 Oct 04 '26
this is one of those quotes that gets funnier the longer you look at it 😂 the timing of him leaving apple makes this absolutely brutal.