There are echoes in Big Sur’s icons of the skeuomorphic, Delicious-generation style that reached its zenith 15 years ago, and the translucent Vibrancy effects introduced with macOS 10.10 Yosemite are ...

For the Mac, that means we could have another Big Sur situation on our hands. macOS Big Sur was the last time Apple introduced notable design changes for the Mac’s software. The update arrived ...

floating interface elements and rounded app icons. As Bloomberg notes, Apple hasn't dramatically rethought the look of any of its software since iOS 7 and macOS Big Sur, so tweaks would be notable.

The orderly uniformity of the new icons provides an immediate hint about the origins of Big Sur’s design inspiration. The other striking feature of the desktop is the aggressive translucency of the ...