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Professional designers mostly cut their teeth on physical objects and physical objects almost never have sharp corners. This then got driven into the ground wi

by bsder 3y ago

Professional designers mostly cut their teeth on physical objects and physical objects almost never have sharp corners. This then got driven into the ground with the "Fisher-Price GUI" that is the norm on mobile because you can't do anything with precision since you don't have a mouse. I would actually really like to see a UI with just rectangles. Really. It's okay, designers. Take a deep breath and say: "GUIs aren't bound by the physical". BeOS and MacOS used to be very rectangular. Give us a nice nostaligia wave of fad design with rectangles, please. Animations and drop shadows are another thing I'd like to see disappear.

twoodfin 3y ago
Rounded corners for windows have been in the Macintosh operating system since the beginning. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
- bsder 3y ago
  Yes, but often not in the interaction areas: http://toastytech.com/guis/macos1.html http://toastytech.com/guis/macos1.html Or, take a look at the interaction mechanisms and palettes in MacPaint: https://www.punchkick.com/blog/2015/08/07/how-apple-has-shaped-the-user-interface https://www.punchkick.com/blog/2015/08/07/how-apple-has-shap... Even in the 1990s, it was a lot of squareness. And, as I point out, physical objects have rounded corners for a reason. Computers GUIs do not share that reason. Rounded corners are a design choice. A different design choice can be made. One other thing that people forget is that rounded things generally suck for packing.
  - toast0 3y ago
    > And, as I point out, physical objects have rounded corners for a reason. Computers GUIs do not share that reason. I knew a guy who poked his eye out on a Windows 3.1 window corner. Super brutal, was running on only 16-colors too. It was the upper left corner, so there wasn't even a drop shadow to help.
anthk 3y ago
My main setup it's cwm+uxterm+tmux+sacc+mpv/mocp/mupdf... and such. But, from time to time, I sometimes use emwm with xfile and a bunch of light Motif apps with some Solaris9-themed GTK2/3 ones when there's no Motif alternative. Usable, with contrast and every menu it's sticky, so good enough for a netbook.

by bsder 3y ago

twoodfin 3y ago

Rounded corners for windows have been in the Macintosh operating system since the beginning. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...

bsder 3y ago
Yes, but often not in the interaction areas: http://toastytech.com/guis/macos1.html http://toastytech.com/guis/macos1.html Or, take a look at the interaction mechanisms and palettes in MacPaint: https://www.punchkick.com/blog/2015/08/07/how-apple-has-shaped-the-user-interface https://www.punchkick.com/blog/2015/08/07/how-apple-has-shap... Even in the 1990s, it was a lot of squareness. And, as I point out, physical objects have rounded corners for a reason. Computers GUIs do not share that reason. Rounded corners are a design choice. A different design choice can be made. One other thing that people forget is that rounded things generally suck for packing.
- toast0 3y ago
  > And, as I point out, physical objects have rounded corners for a reason. Computers GUIs do not share that reason. I knew a guy who poked his eye out on a Windows 3.1 window corner. Super brutal, was running on only 16-colors too. It was the upper left corner, so there wasn't even a drop shadow to help.

anthk 3y ago

My main setup it's cwm+uxterm+tmux+sacc+mpv/mocp/mupdf... and such. But, from time to time, I sometimes use emwm with xfile and a bunch of light Motif apps with some Solaris9-themed GTK2/3 ones when there's no Motif alternative. Usable, with contrast and every menu it's sticky, so good enough for a netbook.