RIP Liquid Glass: September 15 - November 3, 2025

I must say I am not disappointed to see a way to turn it off. Even thought I was a 10 year Apple employee, I must say my disappointment with Apple’s HI (human interface) group has always disappointed me. 

Inside, they acted like only they knew how an interface should work, and were very critical of any negative comments. And I made a few. Things like, “Why does this function now take 5 swipes to complete when it used to take two?” Or, “How come on phones without a “home button”, the control panel swipes down from the upper right, but if you have a button, you swipe up from the bottom? Why not make them both the same and use the upper right corner swiping down for all?”  I used to get “you just don’t understand!”  Which I guess was true, because many many of their interface designs I simply no longer understand the reason for the change. (Try changing the little circle image in your contact list. It's a nightmare now.). Changes for change sake. Form over function.  I even got told by one person that, “...we have to make changes to the interface, or people will not think that got a new version.” Sigh. 

I am OK with new designs, and some have been excellent. But so many have not. It would be great if they let other peers review their ideas and actually listened to feedback. They might not have to back it out so quickly. At least this time they listened to user feedback.