strict old-skill vs new-skill comparison

ui-polish · same task A

Wave theme: rest-anchor gel compliance. Old keeps the same grouped home lens coherent and quietly tensioned, but the center starts to feel a touch taut; new keeps the same grouped field while letting the center yield a little more softly, so the home state feels more gel-like and less stretched.

Method. Old side is the real pre-update output from the previous wave. Then ui-polish was updated, and the same task A was rerun to produce the new side. This is a strict old-vs-new comparison for the same panel brief.

Focus on Quiet at rest and then hover Studio Mode. The new side should keep the same depth, buoyancy, and membrane hold while feeling a little less taut through the center.

Old skill · rest-anchor surface tension
Same home lens and grouped field, but the Quiet center now feels more coherently held and less airy/diffuse.
New skill · rest-anchor gel compliance
Same home lens and grouped field, but the Quiet center keeps that hold while yielding a little more softly and reading less like a stretched film.
Borrowed evidence. Anthropic frontend-design: Choose a clear conceptual direction and execute it with precision. / the key is intentionality, not intensity. Apple WWDC25 Meet Liquid Glass: gel-like flexibility / transient and malleable / where the transparent liquid lens can be seen through / to precisely observe the value underneath it. / singular floating plane. Apple WWDC25 Build an AppKit app with the new design: the entire toolbar appears to float above the content / enhancing the sense of hierarchy within the window. Apple HIG Materials: creates a sense of depth, layering, and hierarchy between foreground and background elements. shadcn/ui ToggleGroup / ToggleGroupItem.