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Why do we round corners?

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Re: Why do we round corners?

#21
post #8

I was with them up until the diagram where the straight lines seemed much better. Not that it distracts from the main argument. It might just be that I expect straight lines on diagrams like that and not curves

+1 The straight line diagram is easier to read for me as well. While I sometimes enjoy curved lines for diagrams, I think the ones the author chose were too curvy for my taste.

Re: Why do we round corners?

#22
post #15

Because the siege engines will round them off anyway if we make them sharp and our castle ever comes under attack. And our defending archers can better rain arrows down on attackers approaching from any direction from a rounded tower.

Ah, but internal sharp angles are pretty good. Get a nice V to defend against attackers from 2 sides…

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Re: Why do we round corners?

#23
post #18

> Rounded corners also make effective content containers. This is because the rounded corners point inward towards the center of the rectangle. This puts the focus on the contents inside the rectangle. It also makes it easy to see which side belongs to which rectangle when two rectangles are next to each other. Personally, as a non designer and someone with close to zero natural aesthetic abilities, this single point…

I just realised that I better not say how exactly but the ability to draw anything on the screen really does centre so many excellent ways of showing you the boundaries you want highlighted... which is your clue and solution right there what to do

Re: Why do we round corners?

#24
do I have some sort of condition? not one point in there made sense to me. "which is easier to look at?" they're both the same, to me. one is pointier, the other rounder, but that doesn't make one easier to interpret than another.

UX people are mostly high on fresh MacBook packing material fumes I think.

Re: Why do we round corners?

#25
post #15

Because the siege engines will round them off anyway if we make them sharp and our castle ever comes under attack. And our defending archers can better rain arrows down on attackers approaching from any direction from a rounded tower.

Ah, but internal sharp angles are pretty good. Get a nice V to defend against attackers from 2 sides…

Yep, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Fortress_of_Almeida

Re: Why do we round corners?

#26
post #8

I was with them up until the diagram where the straight lines seemed much better. Not that it distracts from the main argument. It might just be that I expect straight lines on diagrams like that and not curves

Same here - the rounded flowchart was much harder to read, with the rounded one my eyes got lost where the line split in half.

The square rectangle pairing was also easier than the rounded one to match (there were fewer details to compare).

Re: Why do we round corners?

#27
post #8

I was with them up until the diagram where the straight lines seemed much better. Not that it distracts from the main argument. It might just be that I expect straight lines on diagrams like that and not curves

It's also trivial example with 3 boxes. A more complex diagram with curved lines will start to look very inconsistent without a graphics designer cleaning things up.

Re: Why do we round corners?

#28
post #8

I was with them up until the diagram where the straight lines seemed much better. Not that it distracts from the main argument. It might just be that I expect straight lines on diagrams like that and not curves

+1 The straight line diagram is easier to read for me as well. While I sometimes enjoy curved lines for diagrams, I think the ones the author chose were too curvy for my taste.

-1 from me then? I actually had a silent wow moment for that demonstration.

Re: Why do we round corners?

#30
post #2

> We can all appreciate the aesthetic beauty of rounded corners. Can we? Much like that top 40 song that comes on the radio way too often, I have come to find all the rounded corners off-putting. They are usually a signal of form over function, and often used by information sparse sites. Give me square corners like HackerNews, old Reddit, or Vanguard any day.

I kinda like the notched corners of Battlestar Galactica, personally. Though I always did wonder what happened to all the triangles...
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