Liquid Glass

L'evoluzione di Cupertino ridisegna l'interazione sul Mac integrando Siri conversazionale, automazioni descrittive e trasparenze avanzate.

L'architettura grafica, l'evoluzione di Liquid Glass e delle finestre.

Con il rilascio di macOS Golden Gate, Apple consolida l'indirizzo stilistico inaugurato negli anni precedenti perfezionando Liquid Glass, il motore di rendering compositivo che disciplina la translucenza degli elementi grafici a schermo.

Una delle innovazioni più richieste riguarda l'introduzione di un cursore nei controlli di sistema che consente all'utente di calibrare con precisione millimetrica l'opacità delle barre superiori, dei dock e dei menu a cascata.

È possibile privilegiare un effetto diafano che esalti la profondità degli sfondi oppure incrementare l'omogeneità dei fondini per massimizzare il contrasto e la leggibilità dei testi professionali.

Next June... is there going to be a new set of guidelines, a new set of learnings? Because hopefully Apple is learning from this as they're seeing it go out into the world with developers, with designers, having a sense of like, okay, what actually worked? Because they only had their own set of apps to be using against.

And I think we had a lot of this in Liquid Glass that from the first version of Liquid Glass to the one we got last year, there were some improvements, some changes, some things that were based on the contact with the world.

And hopefully we're going to get those.

But I also don't want to commit too far down any path until we get to that point where I feel like we may end up needing to work back or change how we've structured things based on you know what's coming down the road

I think

the tab bar is definitely that.

The whole thing in Liquid Glass where the tab bar became a floating element that was separate from your content rather than being this hard rectangle at the bottom was clearly done so that on the Duo they can flip it sideways and put it on the side.

It's this thing that they're changing for that reason.

The drop-down thing with the buttons on it that you can choose and edit and add controls to and so on.

Looking at it on my Mac now, not only is Liquid Glass helping as an overlay to overlay those on top of what's behind it, but they're all circular.

Mm-hmm.

So they're all finger-shaped, funnily enough.

So I wonder if this was planned years ago.

And as part of liquid glass, for instance, perhaps.

One of the things I think kind of left out that I think we all think is, I don't like touching my screen as it is.

I mean, I don't want to.

yeah they have to fit in that little column although if you if they use a system tab bar you can like long press on them and they actually reveal labels like there's some accommodations there that are like secondary actions if you really want to but if you get used to it and i've been using it in the simulator for like a month now i do feel like it feels pretty intuitive eventually and i presume there's an ergonomics thing where like when you're using unfolded you can kind of like grip it with your hand and just kind of like thumb back and forward on the right hand side and then you can do split screen and you get the bar on the left hand side you kind of get like dual thumb actions like a joypad kind of controls on the left and right um i don't know how well that plays out in practice because obviously there's also still buttons that appear all over the shop but i do think there's a a cleverness or like a utility that also just being like your main elements of the screen are always here you know

yeah i think the app that i always like to use for we talked about this a ton during the ios 26 liquid glass saga whatever you want to call it is the music app because there's so much going on in the music app there's tabs menus on the screen switching between what you're listening to the album art view versus the navigation views all of that stuff So the music app, the tab bars have been compressed into the bottom right corner, vertically aligned, overlaps with all of the content.

And like you said, you can tap on each of the individual tabs.

Or if you do what has kind of become the way I navigate a lot of these tab bars since Liquid Glass debuted, you tap it, then you scroll over it without lifting up your finger.

That's when the buttons expand and I can see, okay, this is home, new, radio, library, or search.

The music app, I think, is the best example of what an ideal kind of experience should be on the Duo in a first-party app from Apple.

... say merged or that they're the same, whatever, but there's been some convergence in design and how things are done.

Um, especially now also with Liquid Glass.

I can see that it might even work quite well with some exceptions.

Like, there will be some apps that work completely horribly because they're old or they're...

There were a few things that Dave let go by there that were not necessarily dependent upon Apple Intelligence.

Most of it was, but the new liquid glass slider, I think, did you mention that?

I have not gotten to that yet, yeah.

Oh, you haven't gotten to it yet.

You mentioned that there are still a couple of things you wanted to bring up.

Certainly, there are other Apple intelligence-related features like Image Playground and Genmoji and things like that.

But you said you wanted to talk about the liquid glass slider.

Yeah.

This feature is typically enabled by default, but users can manage it through their settings for each app.

With the upcoming iOS twenty-six update, CarPlay will also see enhancements, including a new liquid glass design that mirrors the iPhone's interface.

These updates aim to streamline user interaction and keep essential information easily accessible, enhancing the overall user experience.

Android Automotive and Google Built-in are reshaping the landscape of in-car infotainment systems.

If they ship that menu of like the 27 different suggested actions and they don't let you have a toggle for turning off our Siri in the menu, like, you know, it's ridiculous.

The Apple Books app has adopted kind of a more familiar liquid glass design in Beta 3.

And Mayo, you pointed out that this is them moving away from what was like a weird custom menu design in the Books app to something just more system.

Looks more like the rest of iOS 27.

This change isn't actually enabled yet, but it's something Apple is working on.

iOS twenty-seven point two, beta three also brings new Liquid Glass design changes to the Apple Books app, as well as a new progress bar for tracking your progress when reading a book.

Apple is expected to unveil the first touchscreen MacBook Pro as soon as this month, and macOS twenty-seven point two, beta three includes even more hints at Apple's work optimizing macOS to support touch interactions.

There are new gesture recognition tools for several stock applications, and there's a new touch-friendly animation for the dock.