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My take -- curious to know counter points or alternate thoughts: 1. Novelty drives some preferences and trends - so there will be cycles of round corners follo
by albert_e 5y ago
My take -- curious to know counter points or alternate thoughts:
1. Novelty drives some preferences and trends - so there will be cycles of round corners followed by squarish corners and back to round corners.
2. Whatever is DIFFICULT to achieve with current commonly available tools and technology is considered classy and EASY is considered cheap. In early Web days, HTML tables and DIVs only supported square corners. iPhone/iOS with it's rounded buttons and text boxes was all novel and engineered UX. Now it is easily supported by simple CSS -- I see rounded corners overused in even government websites with horrible UX so rounded corners do not automatically invoke a premium feel anymore unless there are other elements of careful UX design.
Same argument about "hand-drawn" illustrations feeling special when hard geometric lines and clean curves are more common/easy.
Similar reason why use of Times New Roman and now Calibri font (default in MS Word) feels lazy.