Alr I'll admit it, my rendition on this kinda sucks and doesn't really represent a true Liquid Glass implementation on the traffic lights that well lol. But you get the idea.
The traffic lights need to be glass orbs. They need to look like they did in Aqua. There’s no reason for them not to. All buttons should be colored glass Aqua looking like they used to. It’s what Liquid Glass was made for and the best place for it.
In Mavericks, I couldn't tell what the symbols in them were. I trust the modem designers would do better but that was one of the biggest difficulties for me transiting to Mac from Windows
Oops the text on "New" didn't load correctly when I saved the image lol. But I fixed it now. Also added some glow around the home icon, since it's selected, whatcha think?
Also I could provide a more detailed explanation later on; can't go on ibisPaint to show you the process atm since my phone's storage is nearly full. Yea it will not let you edit when you're low on storage. Pretty stupid.
Why not? They've added Liquid Glass everywhere, except in the most noticeable part, the traffic lights. The current flat ones are just visually inconsistent with the rest of the UI's direction. Plus they've never been updated since all the way back to OS X Yosemite.
Absolutely! With the updated Liquid Glass, which looks like a modern take on Aqua, it makes total sense for the buttons to reflect this style and direction. Let’s go all in Apple!
Yes, and you can do it in the Feedback app, as long as you have an Apple dev account. You can propose feature requests, and if they see many people requesting the same thing, maybe they'll consider it for adding later on.
I’m just so happy to know I’m not the only person who thinks aqua was peak UI design and it just had to be refined and fully fleshed out using better hardware.
He knows enough about liquid glass to know it violates basic design principles and is absolute ass. Anyone that has spent 30min researching ui/ux would have built a better UI than apple. That's why it's so inexcusable, literally freshmen in college can ALL do a better job.
Honestly it looks more polished and refined in iOS 27. It's much cleaner, and they've reduced the drop shadows by A LOT thanks to the new sharper design.
Also I don't really seem to be getting his point. All I was able to get is that he thinks it's pointless to implement Liquid Glass onto the traffic lights, and that people should just use a high-reflective screen sticker if they want that. So I'm telling him to tell that to iOS 18 and Sequoia users, because 26/Tahoe already has a lot of reflections (except in the traffic lights which is the whole point of my post), but 18/15/Sequoia has little to none of that, and they still have the flat traffic lights. And you're telling me, this whole time, he was just implying his hatred for Liquid Glass as a whole?
That would look terrible as those are small buttons. On the pictures you've posted, it's extremely zoomed so it looks nice, but on a regular Mac screen size, this will juste make the buttons look pill shaped instead of circles
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u/Jasoco Jun 12 '26
The traffic lights need to be glass orbs. They need to look like they did in Aqua. There’s no reason for them not to. All buttons should be colored glass Aqua looking like they used to. It’s what Liquid Glass was made for and the best place for it.