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User Experience News 27 June 2025 - 21 September 2025

iOS 26’s “Liquid Glass” Look Is Dazzling – But Some iPhone Users Say It’s Making Them Sick

iOS 26’s “Liquid Glass” Look Is Dazzling – But Some iPhone Users Say It’s Making Them Sick

A Bold New Look: What Exactly Is “Liquid Glass”? Apple gave iOS a dramatic visual overhaul in version 26, its biggest design change in a decade. Liquid Glass is the company’s term for the new translucent, glass-like aesthetic applied system-wide. Think of the frosted glass panels of macOS or Windows Vista’s Aero Glass – but even more pronounced on a phone screen androidcentral.com. Virtually every UI element in iOS 26 got redesigned to fit this theme. Menus, buttons, notifications, and even app icons now have subtle transparency, glossy blurs, and dynamic lighting effects so that they “behave like glass in
21 September 2025
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Google TV’s Big Home Screen Shake-Up: New Look, Better Navigation, and Why It Matters

Google TV’s Big Home Screen Shake-Up: New Look, Better Navigation, and Why It Matters

Introduction: A New Look for Google TV’s Home Screen Google TV – the software experience powering Chromecast dongles and many smart TVs – is getting a homepage makeover. Google has quietly begun testing a redesigned home screen interface that represents the biggest visual change to Google TV since its launch in late 2020 androidheadlines.com androidheadlines.com. The refresh brings sleeker navigation, quicker access to apps and settings, and a friendlier user profile menu, all aimed at making it easier and faster to find something to watch. While only a small subset of users have seen the new design so far, news
20 September 2025
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Android 16 on Nothing Phones Is a Game-Changer: Redesign, True Black Dark Mode & AI Upgrades Unveiled

Android 16 on Nothing Phones Is a Game-Changer: Redesign, True Black Dark Mode & AI Upgrades Unveiled

A Bold New Look for Nothing OS 4.0 Nothing’s Android 16 update brings a major UI/UX redesign to Nothing phones. The company describes OS 4.0 as “a sharper, more thoughtful design across every layer” droid-life.com – and it shows. From the moment you wake the screen, you’ll notice refinements like reimagined lock screen clocks and cleaner Quick Settings tiles that make the interface feel more modern and consistent androidauthority.com. Fonts and iconography have been tweaked for clarity, and standardized components across the system give a more cohesive look and feel androidauthority.com. It’s all about polishing the details: elements are more uniform,
18 September 2025
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Smartwatch Showdown 2025: Top Models Compared, New Features, and Surprising User Insights

Smartwatch Showdown 2025: Top Models Compared, New Features, and Surprising User Insights

In 2024, global smartwatch shipments fell about 7% year-over-year, the first decline for the category, with Apple down about 19% and China becoming the largest single market. The Apple Watch Series 9, released in September 2023, runs watchOS 10 on a new S9 SiP with on-device Siri and a brighter 2000-nit display, includes ECG, SpO2, skin temperature, but lasts about 18 hours per charge. The Apple Watch Ultra 2, launched in 2023, delivers about 36 hours of normal battery life (up to 72 hours in Low Power Mode) with a 3000-nit display and titanium case. Samsung Galaxy Watch6 (2023) uses
14 July 2025
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AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

AI Gets a Human Touch: How ‘Humanize AI’ Tools Are Revolutionizing Interaction

ChatGPT uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 with multi-turn dialogue and voice input/output, refined through RLHF, and offers a ChatGPT Plus plan at $20 per month. Google Bard runs on PaLM/LaMDA, can generate multiple draft responses and pull web results via Google Search, and is currently free to use in the experiment phase. Soul Machines builds digital-human avatars with AI-driven real-time facial expressions and lip-sync, with enterprise pricing custom and a consumer trial of $5.99 per month. Replika provides an AI companion with a 3D avatar and text/voice interactions, with a Pro subscription approximately $70 per year. Synthesia Studio turns text into videos
7 July 2025
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SEO in 2025: Embracing AI, User Experience & Evolving Search Algorithms (June 2025)

SEO in 2025: Embracing AI, User Experience & Evolving Search Algorithms (June 2025)

From March 13–27, 2025, Google rolled out a broad Core Update focused on relevance, quality and user intent. In 2024 Google released four confirmed core updates (March, August, November, December), with the December update rolling out in six days—the fastest on record. Google’s 2024 spam updates targeted keyword spam, malicious content, and link schemes, with SpamBrain and a scaled-content policy emphasizing behavior over quantity. By 2025, Core Web Vitals consist of LCP, CLS and INP, with INP replacing FID and thresholds of LCP under ~2.5s, CLS under 0.1, and INP in a good range. Google’s mobile-first indexing is fully in
27 June 2025
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