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madeofpalk 14 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]

iOS 7's first beta design was worse than this. They walked back some pretty distinctive parts of the design - mainly the ultra thin fonts - during the betas and following releases.

jeffgreco 14 days ago [–]

Agree to disagree I guess - iOS 7’s initial preview wasn’t perfect but not incoherent and illegible to this degree.

If anyone wants to refresh their memory: https://youtu.be/6jBK3Dggkwg

Not to mention way more functionality added to the OS that year than this.

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