The unbearable sameness of Liquid Glass
Liquid Glass is a neat party trick. The new design system, which was built for nearly all of Apple's products and is rolling out this week, is built on the idea that interfaces should be three-dimensional: in the world of Liquid Glass, buttons and menus sit on top of whatever you're doing or looking at, changing color and refracting digital light like they're physical objects. It's meant to feel like glass does in the real world. It's visually very impressive, and it all kind of works! You install it, you spend a minute fast-scrolling to see the buttons change, it's very well done.
I've been using Liquid Glass, in Apple's various betas, acr …