Design

So unbelievably inspired by all the thought and care that went into Apple’s new design system as of *OS 26+.

They really thought of everything. Lensing. Specular highlights. Concentricity. Ramp animations. Anchoring elements. Guide points. Magic Replace. Layering. Progressive disclosure.

They even baked an entire privacy-preserving state machine runtime into visionOS so that apps can define transitions for UI elements WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO TRACK WHERE YOU’RE CURRENTLY LOOKING. 🤯

So unbelievably inspired by all the thought and care that went into Apple’s new design system as of *OS 26+.

They really thought of everything. Lensing. Specular highlights. Concentricity. Ramp animations. Anchoring elements. Guide points. Magic Replace. Layering. Progressive disclosure.

They even baked an entire privacy-preserving state machine runtime into visionOS so that apps can define transitions for UI elements WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO TRACK WHERE YOU’RE CURRENTLY LOOKING. 🤯

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjODKV8YBFHZcss_KMA7tJMw-ryZusD-7

Frontend

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

And now, back to my current reality as a 2D web dev:

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

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