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I pretty much hate the rounded corners thing, and I actually prefer Windows to Mac OS X and Linux these days. It is so unnecessary and yet creates UI problems f
by bmitc 5y ago
I pretty much hate the rounded corners thing, and I actually prefer Windows to Mac OS X and Linux these days. It is so unnecessary and yet creates UI problems for many applications that might want behavior incompatible with rounded corners, such as graphics applications that draw to a window. It also pretty much creates a border inside the window that you need to avoid.
I’m tired of things just getting changed by undisciplined designers. The other day, my Google Meet updated. I mentioned it and people asked how it was different. All I could say was I didn’t really know, it just looks different with different buttons, placement, and style. I needed to relearn where stuff was. What a pointless change.
- adtac 5y ago>All I could say was I didn’t really know, it just looks different with different buttons, placement, and style. I needed to relearn where stuff was. What a pointless change. I'm no UI/UX expert, but it's perfectly possible that the new layout is more intuitive to NEW users (I don't actually know, just consider that angle). And that's not a bad thing either, making computing more accessible to significantly more non-tech people at the cost of slightly annoying experienced/power users is okay.
- tinus_hn 5y agoRounded corners are an invisible mask on the application windows that the application has to go out of its way to detect, they existed in XP which these days is hailed as the pinnacle of design, how are they an issue? Apart from that it looks different from straight corners. How do you expect Microsoft to sell a new Windows version if it looks exactly the same as it did before?