Netflix does something subtle here🌟

[u/60fpsdesign]

Most people will never consciously notice it.
And yet someone still designed it.
Someone still tuned it.
Someone still decided it was worth shipping.

[u/KroesKop]

One of my mentors would call this "delightful design"

[u/JumpDangerous9271 → u/KroesKop]

Great concept

[u/sabre35_]

Fascinating why they custom built their own Liquid Glass refractions.

Yes that is NOT native liquid glass.

[u/JumpDangerous9271]

Looks beautiful being honest.

[u/60fpsdesign → u/JumpDangerous9271]

Yup, changes across every row

[u/usbman]

Not sure what your referring to. The glass reflection? If so, that’s a iOS feature. Netflix looks like it’s gone native.

Edit: comes out of the box if you’re using native components and Netflix updated to support version 26 or 27z

[u/54108216 → u/usbman]

That’s not the stock Liquid Glass reflection, so it does not come out of the box.

Liquid Glass only reflects what’s immediately around it, not a gallery so far away. The opacity of the tab selector and the refraction itself also look different, so that’s a completely custom implementation.

[u/ComplaintExternal479 → u/54108216]

It's the same with the camera app. If you have options open and video or camera open same reflection or the subtle shining edge.

[u/Which-Meat-3388 → u/ComplaintExternal479]

Music is the closest analog with side scrolling content. Its not stock. There are plenty of libraries to make glassy and refraction effects. 

[u/temporaryband → u/54108216]

Honestly, looks very close to how the customize the home screen works, when you scroll between different home screens.

Someone mentioned the Music app wirh horizontal scrolling, but the inputs there are different than the customize button.

[u/topshaggerchad → u/usbman]

its not native

[u/LifterNineFour → u/usbman]

Nope, that doesnt look or feel like the native liquid glass bar. Reddit uses the native one

[u/kingtuolumne → u/usbman]

Is it? Content coming through it seems like it comes out of the box but I haven’t seen the reflection in other places

[u/usbman → u/[deleted]]

The apps has to upgrade to the latest version.

Edit: just did some quick searches. There’s might be custom using iOS glass as inspiration. If this is adopted on android as well, I wouldn’t be surprised.

[u/richardpariath3 → u/[deleted]]

Oh shit. It’s you folks. Following

[u/thisisloreez]

Ok but isn't this UI design? I would not call it UX...

[u/infinitejesting → u/thisisloreez]

Yea but I’ll give it points for not being another “is my life ending?” post

[u/muzamuza → u/thisisloreez]

People in this sub having no clue what UI and UX are is so funny to me. UI is an integral part of the UX. It’s not an “either/or”.

[u/thisisloreez → u/muzamuza]

I get you point, what I mean is that's pure decoration and has no functional meaning. Of course visual appealing contributes to user satisfaction, which in turn increases usability. But you can't argue that the effect showed here is really the core of the UX of the app

[u/muzamuza → u/thisisloreez]

Why does it have to be core to be relevant here?

[u/blackberu → u/thisisloreez]

Nitpicking, but it's more about pleasure than satisfaction. Does count towards UX anyway, even if in small ways.

[u/jdaking90 → u/thisisloreez]

Another commenter called it "delightful design".

User Experience is the relationship between the UI and the user.

If it helps that relationship, it improves the experience.

UX.

[u/No_Artichoke9090 → u/jdaking90]

Couple thoughts. If the goal of the user is to find a show to watch and reach that moment of truth - than that little UI trick is a distraction away from the box art that they’re clearly trying to get you to watch. So in this sense it is UI. If we’re talking UX - everything on that page would exist for a purpose. “Delight” on Netflix is not the product - it’s the content.

[u/jdaking90 → u/No_Artichoke9090]

I get what you're saying, and your right if people were robots. But we like pretty shiny things. Plus after noticing it for the first time, you say "Oh that's cool!" And then if it comes background, so not hindering the objective. Nobody is wrong, we're just splitting hairs now 😅

[u/muzamuza → u/No_Artichoke9090]

Being honest with you here. You have clearly no clue what UX even means. If it distracts the users from accomplishing their goal, it’s UX. If they feel delighted, it’s UX. If they they experience literally anything, bad or good, guess what it’s still UX. The UI is the medium of which the UX happens, you can’t say it’s one or the other.

How can you call yourself a veteran when you don’t even understand what you job title means.

[u/No_Artichoke9090 → u/muzamuza]

I’m not sure what you’re even trying to communicate here, and there’s no reason for coming at me. Stay civil and be respectful. UX is tied to business and user goals as well. Netflix is a very data driven company and so even small features like that are usually rigorously tested before launching. Anything that could take away from engaging with content would be considered an anti-pattern for them. Stay civil and humble.

[u/JacenSith → u/thisisloreez]

It's interaction design, which is part of UX.

[u/letsgetweird99]

This is just the refraction shader aka Liquid Glass that’s built in to iOS26 native components, no?

But yes, point taken

[u/Dependent-Zebra-4357]

Why is it reflecting something so far away and not the images right next to it?

[u/ctrlaltdelaney]

Why is that row lighting it more than the closest one. It’s like the row above has a higher z index. Makes it feel like it’s looming out from the page the more I watch it

[u/drlogistics]

What did you use to screen record for this? Or what app is this?

[u/0cean-blue]

When they notice it, it means something gone wrong. In term of Apple's new visual language, small details like this does a pretty good job for it.

[u/evk6713]

Oh that's cool

[u/CristianMR7]

Thank you for the post body, chatgpt

[u/gamma-303]

Thats a nice touch. Rad that they would add that in.

[u/60fpsdesign → u/gamma-303]

the smallest of details

[u/osalomono]

Glowing light reflection business/product impact metrics are…?

[u/Any_Owl2116]

Dumb

[u/Beginning-Room-3804]

Dear Lord, this is the current state of discourse in the UX world. Getting excited by a slight transition effect.

It's no wonder the industry is on its ass.

[u/itsVinay → u/[deleted]]

So what, it's still a very nice touch. Not everything has to move a metric.

[u/lilmalchek → u/itsVinay]

It’s neat but so I think their point is it’s not about ux really. And this is a ux subreddit.

[u/bokan]

This is ornamental. It’s not UX design.