inspired by firefox 157. it’s time for me to vent my hate.
enough of this shit. enough rounded corners. enough “pills”. the tyranny of the pill-shaped element is killing my enthusiasm for the computer.
Pills have their place, but it’s not in normal, day to day buttons and frequently used UI elements.
I’ve come to realize that what I hate the most about rounded corners isn’t their roundness (even though it’s ugly), but their lack of information density.
When everything is inside its own card with huge rounded corners, and every button is rounded, and every icon is also rounded, you end up wasting so much space. UIs feel clunky and really slow to navigate, and you have to obscure things behind more buttons because they don’t fit.
On the contrary, sharp corners fit a lot better on a UI, and they’re usually closely related with dense interfaces. I love dense interfaces, because I’ve come here to use the software efficiently, not have something esthetically pleasing but poorly functional.
As a side note, you can edit firefox’s userChrome.css and get your squarer corners back. I haven’t yet tried this on the new firefox, but I do use this snippet on all my computers, after mozilla rounded the corners more in a previous iteration of the UI.
This needs to be in the unpopularopinion community.
I love em, rounder the better I say, give me a phone with the profile of a hot dog bun. Better yet a circle. Yeah I want a folding phone where it’s a circle and it expands from the center into a bigger circle.
iPhone 3GS!
Just get an orb at that point
Love it, yes, a folding orb that folds up into fourth dimensional space.
Sounds like a good idea but unless you have four dimensional pockets it’ll keep falling on the floor and good luck finding it when it’s lost in another dimension
Bill Atkinson, creator of QuickDraw, also hated them. Steve Jobs made him a bet: I’ll take you to lunch and we’ll count all the square corners and all the rounded corners.
Bill conceded by the time they got the menus at the restaurant, and figured out how to draw rounded corners as fast as square ones.
those classic system software rounded corners were more tastefully done, like on buttons on dialog boxes. not on every literal visual element on the screen. >:(
lol real life barely anything is sharp. Even stuff made by humans you usually want to chamfer or bevel. Sharp shit hurts.
Case in point: cybertruck
The future is now, old man
I wanna chat with those dolphins
Come and join us over at AeroThemePlasma
Or if it tickles your fancy, there’s also wintc
Wow, that’s impressive!
Ugh I do not miss the padded-room-UI of the early ‘00s. The colors were pretty sweet though
We always called the fancy blue-green ui for windows xp “Fisher-price node”
I don’t know why frutgier-aero shit looked so appealing to me. It is 100% an aesthetic crime but it did make the endorphins go. I think I only like it based on the context of the memories
That’s when we were applying themes to instant messenger and setting up spaces for our friends to message from different classrooms on
