Linear

Linear rebuilt Apple's Liquid Glass design system from scratch for their mobile app redesign, creating custom SwiftUI shaders and visual effects to maintain design flexibility while supporting customizable navigation. The team implemented their own glass material using Gaussian blur, signed distance fields, and GPU-calculated lighting instead of adopting Apple's APIs, allowing them to support iOS 18 users and build expandable tab bars that adapt to different user roles. The custom implementation includes tactile feedback, variable blur effects, and accessibility features like Increase Contrast mode support.

A Linear spin on Liquid Glass

Customization for a growing user base ⁠

I don’t know why anyone is adopting Apples awful new design. It’s distracting, unreadable and inaccessible.
Absolute downgrade of your UI and a lot of wasted effort.

Why is everyone copying Liquid Glass. Nothing for free, all those effects eat up efficiency, GPU cycle times and for what gain?
If anything I find the UX worse with Liquid Glass.
So it’s a lose lose. Worse performance, worse efficiency and worse UX.
I don’t get the need to copy Apples design. If anything I’d turn liquid glass off if I could on my MBP and iPad.

I swear, I never understood implementing liquid glass into your designs other than to showoff design skills. That’s ok! I’ll stick to simple animations!

Trying to undercut apple on their own platform won’t happen in a million years, should’ve done something else like directly pitching the design changes to the company itself because I heard that there’s rumors swirling around that the guy who came up with the liquid glass design idea has apparently left apple along with his team. You know could’ve made good money yourselves &amp; good work for everyone else.