Post Az7W89kIBghizD6qi8 by jplebreton@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #Az7W89kIBghizD6qi8 by jplebreton@mastodon.social
       2025-10-11T23:56:36Z
       
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       https://www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-glass i am very tired, so tired, of the current (and near future, when Google inevitably copies it, poorly) aesthetic thrash cycle - between rounded and square, flat and dimensional - happening over the past decade or so in UI. it unfolds not because of any important new discoveries in user experience design, but because visual monotony has set in and change, any change really, is expected; lest the child cast their toys from the playpen, demanding novelty.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az7W8BAYtVJNOyPLIO by jplebreton@mastodon.social
       2025-10-12T00:03:42Z
       
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       and more fundamentally, because these companies have not had a new product to sell since ~2008, because smartphones are more or less "done", design-wise, yet to keep alive a sense that sales might still grow exponentially they must create the sense of constant revolution, constant revelation and newness that everyone understands is not really there. so instead we get aesthetics, built around new (not-new) ways to occupy GPU shader units.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az7W8CEUwM3QhTG04O by cbirdsong@mastodon.social
       2025-10-12T01:13:47Z
       
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       @jplebreton if *only* it was just aesthetics. an occasional new coat of paint would be fine (maybe even nice!), but it’s really depressing how clear (lol) it is that they just straight up have no idea what they’re doing with how it’s a functional regression in so many ways even if you look past the absolutely idiotic and predictable issues caused by the use of transparency.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az7W8cAqUYa79fkRzE by hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com
       2025-10-12T03:15:26Z
       
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       @cbirdsong @jplebreton Regarding transparency, Microsoft (over)did it before with Windows Aero in 2006, and it was already uncool and unusable back then.
       
 (DIR) Post #Az7W9iZKCYZDHHixaC by nicholas@aklp.club
       2025-10-12T03:24:12.729642Z
       
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       All my homies hate Vista 😤