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Re: Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows

#81

Post by SkyMarshal » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 7:33 PM UTC

lewispollard wrote: post #21

davidw wrote: post #19

The striped progress bar... isn't. I don't know... I guess 'flat' is the hip thing and everyone should run out and change to it, but I'm not sure it's an improvement. I kind of like buttons to stick out a bit.

I like the flat style, but it's annoying having buttons and alerts/labels look exactly the same. You can't immediately tell what's clickable and what isn't.

I like the flatness too, but still prefer roundrects. They'll never go out of style.

Re: Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 8:22 PM UTC

Is the LESS source not available or am I just not looking in the right place?

Re: Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows

#83

Post by jdorfman » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 9:15 PM UTC

Added: https://github.com/netdna/bootstrap-cdn/issues/70

Re: Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows

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Post by kgosser » Wed, Dec 05, 2012, 9:42 PM UTC

I think a worthy discussion question is:

Are rounded corners a bad thing, and not a part of the "flat design" movement?

My 2¢: I'm not sure they are a bad thing. I think you can still have a flat design and use rounded corners. Frankly, I dislike when buttons are flat _and_ right-angled because too much affordance is lost.

Re: Flatstrap - Bootstrap with no rounded corners, gradients or drop shadows

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Post by ChrisNorstrom » Thu, Dec 06, 2012, 4:09 AM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #80

ChrisNorstrom wrote: post #71

I am very very very pro rounded corners for clickable buttons. Rounded Corners is one of the main things that lets a user know a button is clickable. In fact roundedness was so important in UX that in the past before we had the border-radius: property in CSS we used an actual image made in photoshop as the button. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

I don't remember seeing a rounded button until the 2000's I think.

Websites used the native and so they got that native windows and mac button look. Square, beveled, 3d look, gray. Then to style them they would just use links with images inside, now we're back to code with css.