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Why do we round corners?
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#112Okay, I dont know how to feel about this but. This seems to be a literally rehashing of an article from 2011. It even begins with the same damn text intro. Attaching links for reference. this article: ``` Rounded corners — they’re everywhere. From software user interfaces to hardware product design, there is something intrinsically satisfying about the look and feel of a rounded corner. In fact, designers have been u…
>What do you think about this, HN?
Pretty egregious and disingenuous article IMO. Even the captions to the pictures are the same. The only way I'd consider this even _remotely_ acceptable is if it began with an into stating "printed with permission from user 'Anthony' at uxmovement.com" or something of the sort.
Re: Why do we round corners?
#113> 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 agree. As a designer, this is the point that makes the most sense to me. Rounded corners allow easy content “attribution”, and provides a natural grouping pattern.
Second would be how rounded corners on buttons or inputs helps distinguish the background and surroundings from the interactive part of the page.
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#114Okay, I dont know how to feel about this but. This seems to be a literally rehashing of an article from 2011. It even begins with the same damn text intro. Attaching links for reference. this article: ``` Rounded corners — they’re everywhere. From software user interfaces to hardware product design, there is something intrinsically satisfying about the look and feel of a rounded corner. In fact, designers have been u…
Anyone reading this really needs to take a look at the articles side by side, this is extremely blatant plagiarism. They couldn't even be bothered to pick different objects for the ball and the fork
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#115How can you write an article on rounded corners without mentioning Steve Jobs and Bill Atkinson? https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
I was expecting the same. I don't agree with a lot of what Jobs did, but he was absolutely right about rounded rectangles. > Bill's technique used the fact the sum of a sequence of odd numbers is always the next perfect square (For example, 1 + 3 = 4, 1 + 3 + 5 = 9, 1 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 16, etc). So he could figure out when to bump the dependent coordinate value by iterating in a loop until a threshold was exceeded. This…
That would be a variant of Bresenham's circle algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midpoint_circle_algorithm
Certainly a fun exercise...
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#116A few months ago, I built matching houseframe beds for my 2 year old grandtwins ( https://www.woodshopdiaries.com/diy-kids-house-bed/ ). The best piece of advice I got from my dad before I started on this (for me) ambitious project was in question form: "Are you going round over all the edges? A 1/2 inch round leaves a bruise on a little one. An unfinished edge leaves a cut." He's been right. They're psycho 2 year ol…
Another thing about rounded edges and corners is that they're less prone to breakage. I know this from both homemade furniture, stringed musical instruments, and the homemade speakers that I use for amplifying my instruments. A softened edge will take a knock without chipping. Glass optics (lenses, mirrors, etc.) will usually specify "protective bevel on all edges," and the fab shops know exactly what to do. The beve…
I noticed this when buying prescription Gunnar glasses. The frame and lens are excellent, I would say this is the second best pair of glasses that I've ever owned. However, they came from the factory with the lenses chipped at the corners in multiple places. I can post a photo if you want, I have them right here next to me. Now looking at them and comparing with my el-cheapo everyday-wear glasses, I see that the Gunnars have no bevel along the edges of the lens.
I'll look out for this in the future. Thank you!
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#117> 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 dunno about rounded corners for beauty - but there are cases when I find them function over form. Recent HN discussion about the wyze cam app - it was pointed out to me that a feature I had never been able to find (and only put in a less than half-assed attempts to find tbh) - was via a HUGE green button on X screen. Seeing as though I have used this app many many times over the past year plus, I went looking for i…
this has more to do with the fact that all buttons are flat now instead of gradients. Gradients are our natural way to recognize depth instantly, it is a pity that designers hate it so much. Without gradients, i guess rounded corner is the next best way to make a button look like a button .... until designers decide that they hate that as well and start using invisible ink buttons
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#119Okay, I dont know how to feel about this but. This seems to be a literally rehashing of an article from 2011. It even begins with the same damn text intro. Attaching links for reference. this article: ``` Rounded corners — they’re everywhere. From software user interfaces to hardware product design, there is something intrinsically satisfying about the look and feel of a rounded corner. In fact, designers have been u…
Hmm, Medium has a reporting path for direct copyright infringement, but I don't see anything explicit for plagiarism.
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#120> there is something intrinsically satisfying...
No, there's something "intrinsically" old-fashioned about round corners. Windows XP had round corners.
But I guess I'm just not in tune with the UI fashion cycle, in 5 years, pointed corners will be the next big thing again, along with enthusiastic blog posts from UI designers about how "intrinsically satisfying" those pointed corners are.