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Transparent Ambition

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74 points goranmoomin | 2 comments | 21 Jun 25 23:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.421s | source
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tanvach ◴[23 Jun 25 17:28 UTC] No.44358039[source]▶
Some people will say that iOS has an option for ‘reduce transparency’ that mitigates the issue. But every time I turn it on, there’s a general lack of design polish in the OS and apps due to it not being the default.

Another point: I wonder how much of this is for the OS designer/UX/UI team to justify their existence at Apple. Suspect it’ll start out very glassy and gets flatter over time, so that they can claim ‘improvement to user experience’ over many years to come.

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1. asadotzler ◴[23 Jun 25 19:45 UTC] No.44359310[source]▶
If you're disabled, and going to the Accessibility settings to make the experience work for you, Apple has failed.

We're all disabled now.

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2. wintermutestwin ◴[23 Jun 25 20:30 UTC] No.44359760[source]▶
As someone who has to put on reading glasses to get any information from my apple phone and watch purely due to obnoxious design choices by Apple, I’d say they embody UI failure.