A glassmorphism audit, mostly about knowing when not to use glass

I reviewed the frosted-glass treatments across Wags and separated the useful ones from the decorative ones. The result was less blur, cleaner photo chrome, and clearer rules for when glass is actually earning its place.

I went through the app looking for every frosted-glass treatment and asked a boring but useful question: is this helping?

Sometimes it was. Glass can protect text over a live photo without making the whole image feel heavy. But a lot of the time, it was just blur sitting on top of a solid surface. That does not add depth. It just adds noise.

So I kept the treatments that were doing real contrast work and removed the ones that were decorative. The image carousel got cleaner controls. The discovery feed kept enough protection for status, distance, and text, but lost the extra layers that made the photo feel overprocessed.

The strongest design decision was removing the big "Meet" button from the feed card. The primary gesture there is browsing. Opening the full profile still matters, but it should not shout over the photo and the dog.

This pass made the app feel more confident. Fewer special effects, stronger rules, and a clearer relationship between imagery and interface.