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What in the fresh hell is this. Did someone responsible for the abomination that is Windows 11 UX bite the entire Apple design team? Did they poach whoever at Google made nigh-identical icons for every product? The point of iconography and UI is to be distinct — this adds cognitive load to each tap.

Love to have to scroll to a white spot to make my persistent UI elements readable at all. This is good design.

Can’t watch WWDC yet but I wonder if they do anything at all to mitigate all the issues this approach creates. If not, this will be first time I can remember Apple absolutely fumbling UI fundamentals (colored app icons and free flow Home Screen last year were bad, but at least those were optional).

Ok, clear view is optional, thank Christ. Still really conflicted about the transparency/readability tradeoff for the UI but I guess we’ll see how those materials are actually implemented.

Most curious how the glass layering for app icons is implemented.