This may be one of the happiest days of my life (scoped to apple things in the past 15 years). I'm legitimately more excited and invigorated by this news than a

This may be one of the happiest days of my life (scoped to apple things in the past 15 years). I'm legitimately more excited and invigorated by this news than any of their product announcements in the Cook era. The general direction of Apple's design has been the opposite of delight. I hope they right this ship. Their lack of leadership in the design space has trickled down to developers. iOS apps used to be a proud showcase of a company's best work but those days are long gone. One example of Apple's fall from grace in software design was the perceived "design moat" that people thought that liquid glass would impart of apps that adopted it versus apps that didn't. People speculated that developers had to update their apps because those without liquid glass would look terrible in comparison to those with it. In reality, people (a) didn't care or (b) considered liquid glass a regression. The human interface guidelines (HIG) used to mean something. Now it's a manual of hypocrisy. ... Alan Dye is gone! Light the beacons!