🍎📲💥 There’s been a wave of criticism around Apple’s new Liquid Glass UI — especially among designers.
But I can’t help but wonder: how much of it is genuine concern for accessibility and usability, and how much is performative outrage or virtue signaling?
Let’s not forget — this is a demo, not a finished product. Judging an under-construction UI as if it’s final is like complaining about a leaky roof before the roof is even built.
Yes, accessibility matters. Yes, legibility matters. But perhaps the louder concern should be elsewhere:
Autocorrect that still struggles.
Dictation that fumbles.
Voice recognition that underdelivers.
AI features that feel half-baked.
These are the core experiences that need urgent attention. Maybe it’s time we shift focus away from the gloss and toward the fundamentals.
If you are like me, you must be familiar with that feeling of frustration when scrolling through the “infinite” list of your past conversations with ChatGPT, looking for the particular one you want to re-check again, just to realise that you can’t find it — at least, not quickly and without a significant effort. One summer afternoon, I started ideating on the concept of a better prompt archive management.
I asked myself: “How could we improve the usability of our beloved AI tool?”
There are many possible areas of improvement when it comes to software as young as ChatGPT was in 2023. This post is about of them — the better prompt archive management. I contemplated the idea of what if we gave users an option to organise their past conversations with ChatGPT somehow? Not just archive them but also group and tag them in meaningful-to-them ways.
