Samuel
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Linear’s Liquid Glass reimplementation doesn’t look half bad - until you start actually using it, and realise that it’s 300x worse without the squishy feedback and animations. it feels dead
5 1 37Samuelweirdly the text input is real glass. and it feels sooo much nicer
1 9Samuel“Liquid Glass except we care about contrast and accessibility” sounds great and when it works it works but this implementation is a little underbaked imo
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Tom HicksLinear clearly doesn’t care much about accessibility when you look at the contrast ratios in their apps
1 1 7Samuel💀
1 3Tom HicksIt’s not meant as an attack it’s just true.
There are plenty of good things about linear accessibility wise but contrast ratios and readability are not among them in many cases.
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Alvar LagerlöfThe default light theme is so bad. The text is not dark enough and all backgrounds are white. It's blinding.
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Sam 💛It’s also weird to be doing it on Android. You should really be tailoring your app to each platform’s norms.
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chelsea bridgeconcur. if android folks wanted software that behaved and looked like iOS software, they wouldn't have chosen android. software that doesn't respect platforms doesn't respect the money people spent on their devices.
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Robert Atkins“Reimplementation”?! 😳 What on earth designer ego would possess you, in the year of our lord 2025, to *reimplement* Apple’s design system? I thought that kinda shit was a ZIRP.
Andy IngramIt is pretty meh, especially in light mode where you can barely tell they’ve done anything
th.alassai hate apps that do it correctly in some places but not others (*cough* Wise)