design has completely replaced usability with faddish "innovation", silently bolstered by management trying to come up w/a reason for people to go through another upgrade cycle
Poor readability was one of the main insights from the feedback you've so casually dismissed. And it was backed up by screenshots/recordings, which this post have none of besides the usual useless waste of an art filler.
> Readability is a concern.
Oh, wait, so it was actually pretty meaningful insight!
It's like trying to get the hour of the day from something which just responds back a list of all 12 and then claims it's valuable because 6 (or whatever) was actually one of the things brought up in the list.
Of course, you also have plenty of assessments like "bold" and "fresh" where your view is as fluid as liquid glass because, well, there is little substance behind them. But then this is no different from non-social media articles.
If you already know how to filter these for things that make sense and don't make sense then going through the posts doesn't help. If you don't already know then it doesn't help to do so either.
This is not a problem, I've specifically described how it's not (you can read off a photo, so other posts with numbers can't confuse you), so you need to address that instead of repeating the same claim.
> If you already know how to filter these for things that make sense and don't make sense then going through the posts doesn't help.
It does, the posts supply you with information, that's a net increase in your knowledge after you've applied the filter! Someone says it's not readable, you see the screenshot, apply your own filter and come out with more knowledge about the new design. Then you see posts "i can read just fine, it's great", apply your filter and ignore this
You couldn't even come up with an analogy where it doesn't work, and it also worked in this specific case of liquid design.
But focusing on the 'glass' component is very reductive in my opinion, and shallow. It is much more about overall layout overhaul. I, for one, think it feels much more easy and modern, a welcome upgrade. I am a programmer, not a designer. Functionally it feels better for me.
PaulHoule•6mo ago
If you take an average frame out of a sports game you don't see a clear story -- in basketball, for instance, you can catch the ball leaving the hands of the player or you can get the ball going into the hoop, it's not so easy to make a picture that unambiguously tells the story that № 15 scored a basket.
One answer to that is give up and say "a good portrait is a good sports photo" and that works, the other is to catch a special moment from a special angle like this shot [2] where for just a moment the ball kicked up a plume of dirt so you know the batter bounced the ball right in front of himself and the presence of a runner on third base adds to the tension. Nothing distorted there at all!
[1] https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114883139153288563
[2] https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114849463914827733