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by smoldesu 1588 days ago
I like a little bit of rounding. Much like gaussian blur, the more subtle the effect, the more appealing it is (imo). Unfortunately, the design trend of over-the-top rounding has started to hit the mainstream and it scares me deeply. Microsoft has started baking-in rounded corners to their displays on Surface products (WHY?!), and MacOS now has more rounded corners than a Fischer-Price product.

It's a little ironic to me that we've literally resorted to "cutting corners" with our latest UX trends.
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Cullinet 1588 days ago
you don't think that the new Surface looks good in its own way at least?

I'm sure that it does despite being far from being my aesthetic

I mean I know as soon as I use it it's all disappointment but every time I look at the new Surface I actually want to buy one Windows 11 and all (if I could combine the talent and the means I'd r restore W2K look and feel immediately as by bid for the Nobel economic fake prize award for getting that many people back to working.

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smoldesu 1588 days ago
It's a waste of screen space. If they want rounded corners, they can add them in software. The average user will have no way of telling the difference.
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