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> Over the next few months, roundrects worked their way into various parts of the user interface, and soon became indispensable. At which point we realized the

> Over the next few months, roundrects worked their way into various parts of the user interface, and soon became indispensable. At which point we realized they are just a fad like any other design ever was and went to sharp corners and flat design. And back to round corners, and back to sharp, and back to.. Hell, I can see this circle of hell happening in front of my very eyes. I think a year ago someone at Chrome had the brilliant idea to "refresh the design" as happens so often in big organizations and suddenly the tabs got round and we got little round corners around the navigation bar and..

thr33 2y ago
rounded corners are actually a significant accessibility factor and powerful gestalt mechanism in design. The border radius of a rounded rect makes it discernable at a glance the boundaries of the element and what is inside and what is out. Concentric rounding can clearly communicate parent child relationships in an astutely gestalt fashion.
wolpoli 2y ago
The only thing constant in modern web design seems to be the ever-increasing amount of margins and paddings. Everything else goes in cycles. When Google fully-rounded the corners of a rectangle, they added even more margins and paddings. When texture comes back in style, I bet we'll see even more margins and paddings.