Really curious to see examples of the HomeView "dynamically showing more information as the user gets closer" (implying less as you get farther) feature. You've heard of size classes, get ready for depth classes. Really cool idea
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I like Design and love Good Design. I have a blog about design which I’d love if you read: https://kirby.pika.page/ (It’s a little heavy on Apple topics. Sorry, they often design good.) They / Them
Don't miss my latest blogpost from yours truly - look at this cool diagram I made for it! I'd love to hear what others think about these new uses of Liquid Glass
Keren@kerenrbell.bsky.social · 6d agoI wanted to take a close look at some design evolutions seen on the HomeView and other bits of OS 27's uses of Liquid Glass, as Apple begins to experiment and get creative with uses of the material. kirby.pika.page/posts/hierar... Am I too cautious? Maybe, but it's fun.
I think the Now Playing expanded view in control center is one of my favorite little bits of iOS. It’s this dreamy translucent original iPod, if the iPod had no physical restrictions, nothing but “A music listening rectangle”. It’s really nice
I wanted to take a close look at some design evolutions seen on the HomeView and other bits of OS 27's uses of Liquid Glass, as Apple begins to experiment and get creative with uses of the material. kirby.pika.page/posts/hierar... Am I too cautious? Maybe, but it's fun.
Hierarchical Chaos 2: Glass to or fro? - Quibbletown by Keren
Alongside generally approved backpedals and tweaks to Liquid Glass, the ‘27 cycle of OS releases from Apple brought about some newer, more curious appearances of the material. Glass has never...
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I really hope the new Apple Music icon being monochrome’s reasoning isn’t “to let each artist’s colors show through and celebrate content”, because that dissolves the moment you extend this to mean Podcasts, Books, fuck it, Notes, Photos, Keynote, should all be mono too, and nothing should be fun
Is it liquid glass elevating my content when the content I am scrolling, that’s atop a pane of glass above my wallpaper, gets a bendy effect as if glass is above it? Are we doing it?
The frosted tab covering the PiP isnt as rounded as the video itself, showing the corners peek through…
other swipe action lists don’t have this problem, why the wheel reinvention here? (Siri app in 27.0.1)
The Four Tiers of Tab Importance Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian. I've been back on it the last month or so though.... https://chriscoyier.net/2026/09/15/the-four-tiers-of-tab-importance/
The Four Tiers of Tab Importance
Arc is the greatest web browser ever, and has been tragically moved-on-from by The Browser Company of New York-come-Atlassian. I've been back on it the last month or so though. It's still very usable as they keep the Chromium version updated. I just really like it. It's so good. My second favorite is Zen because...
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when openai makes a crappy little charm with a screen for the Dots Agent thing they should call it the Dot Comm Bubble send tweet
I wanted to take a closer look at the iPhone Duo's opening and closing animations, beyond just applauding how sick the effects look, and how they actually contribute to the User Experience of folding and unfolding an operating system kirby.pika.page/posts/the-ip...
The iPhone Duo’s windows into Liquid Glass - Quibbletown by Keren
With the reveal of the new iPhone Duo1, I was delighted to see how iOS was adapted to accommodate the strange, shifting nature of a folding display. How do we communicate the weird turns and tumbles o...
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Meta and X have been quietly downranking external links for ages, but we're now entering a new era of open hostility toward the open web. It's a great time to build your own website, free from any billionaires demanding a tithe for things that have always been free.
Suw@suw.bsky.social · last mo.Fucking hell. Facebook is now limiting the number of links that a page or professional profile can include in a post to TWO PER MONTH, unless you pay them $7.99 a month. Fucking assholes.
Funnily enough, seems the safe region on the right also affected the contents but not the boundary of the dynamic island on this display, making for some odd asymmetrical dead space youtu.be/ZlMvbjknrIg?...
Documenting more Apple Intelligence V1 oddities, I wanted to properly capture how half-assedly "More Intelligent Siri" was implemented in terms of interaction design, just before OS27 presumably fixes it tomorrow. kirby.pika.page/posts/quibbl...
Quibble: The specifics of how 26’s Siri scrolling worked - Quibbletown by Keren
In a previous post of mine from before WWDC25, I discussed1 how Siri is too easy to dismiss, its responses too fragile and how I longed for a more complete “destination” for Siri chats.My wish will be...
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Documenting more Apple Intelligence V1 oddities, I wanted to properly capture how half-assedly "More Intelligent Siri" was implemented in terms of interaction design, just before OS27 presumably fixes it tomorrow. kirby.pika.page/posts/quibbl...
Quibble: The specifics of how 26’s Siri scrolling worked - Quibbletown by Keren
In a previous post of mine from before WWDC25, I discussed1 how Siri is too easy to dismiss, its responses too fragile and how I longed for a more complete “destination” for Siri chats.My wish will be...
kirby.pika.page
I'm RUMMAGING through these hands-on demos of the fold and can't find an answer- what happens when you close the Duo with two different apps in split view?
Look at how offset the identical Safari toolbars get on the different sides! I get that this space *will* effectively be reserved for this top-right area, both open and closed, so this might be fine in actual use, but I feel like that new status bar indicator is so damn big and loud...
LOVE this effect the phone does when you fold/unfold. The extended area dips into the water of the device, and clears back once your motion finishes. Really cool touch. Will it get old? I don't care. I like it.
I’ll be true to the nasty hypeperson I am and liveblog too, why not. Surprise and Shine is a classic cheesy tagline. Honestly some of the best part of apple product reveals is the cheesy taglines. “Mmmmm, power” was crazy
“…even though much has improved, the rapid rate of technology change outpaces the advances in design” - Don Norman, 2013’s revision of The Design of Everyday Things. buddy, you aint seen the half of it
My two cents for the folding iPhone name are that the only precedence for a “foldy name” Apple used before is Folio, and iPhone Folio is kind of a sweet name
Nothing reminds me of how we've lost the plot more than helping family and friends install, fix, or setup a machine. macOS is bad. iOS is bad. iPadOS is bad. watchOS is bad. the Web sucks. Windows awful. It's all just so bad. Still. All of it. We've failed. Keep adding adding adding. Ugh. (sorry.) ☠️
You can now add custom code across your entire Pika site. This should open up a ton of new capability for the techies of Pika! 🎉 pika.pika.page/posts/custom...
Custom Code - Building Pika Out Loud
Pika has offered the option for custom CSS since the beginning. Many of you who are a bit more technically inclined have been asking us to support custom scripts and other code on your site. If you’re...
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Starting today, Quiche Browser disables AI overviews in search results by default, out of the box. Compare how much space and time they waste. I love the web too much to let that nonsense bury links to real websites made by humans. Why no other browser does that is beyond me.
Some thoughts on the Creator Economy™, user retention in social media hell, and a possible respite for all involved. kirby.pika.page/posts/readin...
Reading Lists and Links in Bio - Quibbletown by Keren
As a person with a modest passion for archivability of internet ephemera, I find the single-link-in-bio model to be so, so tormentful. How could a creator ever confidently say “check...
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You really need to trick Figma Motion into working in a way it hopefully will allow more easily in the future, but, it's possible to do synchronized constant loops. Maybe I missed something easier?