Monthly episodes discussing this topic, 2024-06 to 2025-06.
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The transparent UI design is not good design because it fails to provide adequate readability for the average user.
“It's one of those questions that it's like if nobody if the average user can't make it look good, is it good design?”
WVFRM Podcast · Jun 2025 · 3 episodes · 1.3M views on this topicThe new transparent and refractive UI design aesthetic is technically impressive but practically distracting and difficult to use on a phone.
“Liquid glass in general, I think, is like very technically beautiful and impressive and you can see like the light bending around certain elements and things like that and like light refracting and it's awesome to like look at, but practically on a phone it's like so distracting like it's so much.”
WVFRM Podcast · Jun 2025 · 3 episodes · 1.3M views on this topicThe camera interface redesign is beautiful but lacks practicality for power users.
“I am not a fan of this camera redesign like at all. It looks beautiful, but it's so not practical.”
WVFRM Podcast · Jun 2025 · 2 episodes · 967K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.