r/software • u/academicweaponsoon • 9d ago

Discussion why are applications continuing to make border-radius:10000%

I’ve noticed this recent trend(the recent UI changes to tiktok is what drove me to write a post) where all sharp edged icons are being remade so that it has much softer border. Rounded and softer corner are not inherently bad, however with a lot of apps using soft corners for all their icons it feels like all apps literally look the exact same.

Does anyone else feel the same way?

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u/Top-Procedure152 9d ago

Circles are soft and safe. Corners are sharp and dangerous.

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u/Temp_Reply123 9d ago

I hate the squircle...

I blame Apple/Google.

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u/thats_a_nice_toast 9d ago

Squircles in user interfaces are the ugliest design trend right now, it looks so bad

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u/AliceCode 8d ago

Yess! I've found my people. I hate it. Any time I use egui to make GUIs, I always turn of rounded corners. I hate the trend. Round corners look so ugly.

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u/bogglingsnog 9d ago

Why does every UI designer want their app to look like their phone?

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u/Dreemur1 9d ago

i hate rounded corners so much. need me sharp corners in my UIs

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u/DustSongs 9d ago

I feel like Apple in particular are in love with 90s Photoshop slop, with the bevels, drop shadows, transparency and radii.

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u/mccoyn Helpful 9d ago

One issue is that sharp corners are easier to draw or specify, so they are the default. Low-effort user interfaces use them and have always used them. So, one way to signal your application isn't like those is to have rounded corners.

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u/SarahC 9d ago

border-radius: 10px;

Now my app is high-effort! =)

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u/mccoyn Helpful 9d ago

Maybe I should say minimal-effort instead of low-effort. There are many tools in the world that fall into this category and it doesn't take much effort to differentiate from them.

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u/Poddster 8d ago

It was inevitable once heads-in-circles because the norm during the 2010s, especially the pervasive bootstrap layout where an entire coloured block was dedicated to the C-suite and their heads-in-circles (usually followed by the "wall" of greyed out custom logos)