A designer recreates the 1998 iMac G3 website with its iconic Aqua UI, the translucent, colorful interface Jony Ive designed to look edible. Steve Jobs said the buttons would make you want to lick them. The whole thing was built in Framer.
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Look at this iconic website animation of the 1998 iMac G3 where Thibault imagines what it would look like if Apple sold this on their website today. This is the Aqua UI aesthetic. This design language was led by Jony Ive and his team after studying jelly beans and gumdrops, where every button was a translucent gel drop that Steve Jobs himself said you'd want to lick. Pause. The design principle was that every surface should look like it's edible, and this principle actually translated to Apple's software interface too, where icons had some personality, depth, and colors unapologetic. Now, believe it or not, this entire site was built on Framer, a no-code website builder designed for designers.