Say what you will, but interface design is evolving, and flat design is on its way out. Just look at the refraction effect on the customise button.

Yeah everyone will start copying apple now

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My immediate reaction to Apple’s Liquid Glass as a web developer:

Browser engines and the CSS Working Group have a LOT of work cut out for them if they ever hope for today’s 2D flat design–oriented web to adapt to the new 3D light-bending reality Apple just ushered in.

If the open web ever hopes to rival visionOS’ inevitable walled garden in terms of visual fidelity, cheesing things with cute little 2D masks and gradients and box shadows and `backdrop-filter: blur()` is frankly not gonna cut it anymore.

Where we’re headed, we need a full-on material system, light transport simulation, 3D shape primitives and a bunch more baked directly into the browser rendering engine, with a slew of new CSS properties to match.

And of course, it’s all gotta be keyboard-navigable, ARIA-compatible, respect the accessibility tree and do all the stuff that currently makes the web great.

Am I making any sense? Am I overly optimistic that any of this will ever happen?

https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0xef2e568a

Seems inevitable that browser engines come with light transport simulation built-in. Don’t know if it’ll ever happen or how long it might take, but one can dream…

https://warpcast.com/darrylyeo/0x4a6d92d2

browsers usually very slow adopting new things and older versions may not support

Is there a difference from the past? Haha 
Joking apart apple has always been a key inspiration for designers