Sebastiaan de With—co-founder and designer at Lux, which makes beautiful camera apps—lets his imagination run wild ahead of WWDC’s expected unveiling of a long-rumored Apple UI redesign:

What would I do if I were Apple’s design team? What changes would I like to see, and what do I think is likely? Considering where technology is going, how do I think interface design should change to accommodate? Let’s take a look at what’s (or what could be) next.

de With first catalogs the iOS design “epochs” before revealing his “take on the New Age,” calling his design language “Living Glass”:

I’d like to imagine what could come next. Both by rendering some UI design of my own, and by thinking out what the philosophy of the New Age could be. […]

Philosophically, if I was Apple, I’d describe this as finally having an interface that matches the beautiful material properties of its devices. All the surfaces of your devices have glass screens. This brings an interface of a matching material, giving the user a feeling of the glass itself coming alive.

The designs de With showcases are beautiful, compelling, and completely plausible—very much inline with Apple’s recent designs for new apps (see, for example, the Invites app).

Something to look forward to on Monday.