Why do we round corners? • Hacker News Board

Re: Why do we round corners?

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Post by TheSalarian » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

Terr_ wrote: post #119

nyxf wrote: post #101

Okay, 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.

This page has a link to report either copyright infringement or plagiarism.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/200737695-Report-c...

Re: Why do we round corners?

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Post by openknot » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 7:06 PM UTC

nyxf wrote: post #101

Okay, 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…

I submitted the article after discovering it via a newsletter, but unfortunately didn't know it was plagiarized (benefitting the copycat author without properly crediting or compensating the original writer) until checking the comments much later.

Since this HN comment thread, which was well-deserved, the webpage now implies that the copycat author's account has been suspended (likely thanks to reports from HN users), noting: "ERROR 410 This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules. There are thousands of stories to read on Medium. Visit our homepage to find one that’s right for you."

For reference purposes, this is an archived version of the article with plagiarized content that was originally submitted: https://archive.fo/x4UDs

Re: Why do we round corners?

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Post by stevenicr » Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

StillBored wrote: post #108

stevenicr wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well this was fundamentally one of the issues with ms office when they went to the ribbon. see: https://www.jegsworks.com/lessons/numbers-2/intro/ribbon-off... No one could figure out how to print because it turns out that round thing in the upper left was basically the old file menu, but since it didn't look like anything else on the screen people were really confused, so much so, that as you see from the link above…

thanks for the extra info - I do feel that location is also a big issues for the problem I ran into - I am apt to agree that location, size, even gradients as another mentioned; basically all the things button-ey make / made a different..

so I can see how if all the other factors were aligned, that roundness would not be an issue - so you are right - but given that the other things were out of whack in the wyze screen issue - non-roundness vs roundness would of made a difference for sure.. but yeah, if the location was better and the sizing a bit better - I can see how roundness would not matter / make much of any difference.