[renaudg]

Liquid Glass appears to be the culmination of the Alan Dye era at Apple, where UI terms like "radio buttons" were derided as "programmer talk".

https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Thankfully he has now left. Things could hopefully pick up again usability-wise within 2-3 years.

[mort96]

The worrying thing is that his departure seems in no way like a consequence of his terrible job. He wasn't squeezed out by upper management, he left because Meta made him a better offer. I'm sure Apple's software quality will go up now that he's gone and his replacement is allegedly liked by Apple's competent UX people who disliked Dye; but Cook clearly doesn't recognise the problems, lest he'd have planned to get rid of Dye by now.

[swiftcoder]

It’s honestly hard to tell from outside - execs at that level are very rarely fired. They tend to be asked politely to find something new to do with their time

[DonHopkins]

I'm hopefully optimistic that he can destroy Meta in less time than that!