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Mark my words - there is going to be a reverse trend, say 5-10 years from now. Same with color gradients, it will become uncool. It's all fashion. > sharp edge

Mark my words - there is going to be a reverse trend, say 5-10 years from now. Same with color gradients, it will become uncool. It's all fashion. > sharp edges takes indeed a little bit more cognitive visible effort I have my doubts about this. It is 100% fad IMO.

323 5y ago
Like how Windows slowly removed colors from it's icons, until they almost became black and white, only to reintroduce color back in Windows 11. And how Windows 11 lists rounded windows and corners as a "signature feature"! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signature-experiences/geometry https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signatu...
- 4cao 5y ago
  And they still managed to get the round corners wrong, apparently. According to that page, the radius values are hardcoded in pixels, so they don't scale with the display's DPI setting. That's at least a decade after the W3C had a well-developed concept of relative units for use with the CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.html#future https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.html#future (2010) Thus, with a sufficiently high DPI display, you're going to miss out on one of Windows 11's "signature experiences" and end up with "legacy" squarish corners instead.
  - 323 5y ago
    They use "effective pixels", just like CSS pixels are not actual pixels: > Because of how the scaling system works, when you design your UWP app, you're designing in effective pixels, not actual physical pixels. Effective pixels (epx) are a virtual unit of measurement, and they're used to express layout dimensions and spacing, independent of screen density. (In our guidelines, epx, ep, and px are used interchangeably.) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/layout/screen-sizes-and-breakpoints-for-responsive-design https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/layout/... Also, Windows scales the pixel size when you use a legacy application (non DPI aware) on high DPI displays.

323 5y ago

Like how Windows slowly removed colors from it's icons, until they almost became black and white, only to reintroduce color back in Windows 11. And how Windows 11 lists rounded windows and corners as a "signature feature"! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signature-experiences/geometry https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/signatu...

4cao 5y ago
And they still managed to get the round corners wrong, apparently. According to that page, the radius values are hardcoded in pixels, so they don't scale with the display's DPI setting. That's at least a decade after the W3C had a well-developed concept of relative units for use with the CSS: https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.html#future https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.html#future (2010) Thus, with a sufficiently high DPI display, you're going to miss out on one of Windows 11's "signature experiences" and end up with "legacy" squarish corners instead.
- 323 5y ago
  They use "effective pixels", just like CSS pixels are not actual pixels: > Because of how the scaling system works, when you design your UWP app, you're designing in effective pixels, not actual physical pixels. Effective pixels (epx) are a virtual unit of measurement, and they're used to express layout dimensions and spacing, independent of screen density. (In our guidelines, epx, ep, and px are used interchangeably.) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/layout/screen-sizes-and-breakpoints-for-responsive-design https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/design/layout/... Also, Windows scales the pixel size when you use a legacy application (non DPI aware) on high DPI displays.