Comment by data-ottawa

I was initially excited as on paper it sounds like a fantastic throwback to the Aqua design, which I still think was fantastic.

From the preview so far I'm not excited.

I have to say app icons look nice (the borders make them pop just a bit more), the border highlights are clear without being loud, and elements like the dock look nice. The inactive button states actually look great – as shown in the Camera and Facetime screenshots – they actually do look like little glass buttons, which is good.

Where I have issue is when multiple of these glass elemenst are shown at once they fight for attention and it's persnally quite overwhelming for me. The image of the video player controls on iPhone and AppleTV are in my opinion awful and load, and that's especially where you want a quiet UI.

When the shape has a strong refractive index and that's where it becomes really noisy for me with the Safari and music tab bars being absolutely awful in my opinion.

It's a shame because I think if they kept the idea but dialed it down from 11 it could be fantastic.