Dear UI Designers,
Do you think I’m 4? Are you worried I might cut my eyeballs if I see a 90-degree angle on your website? Is that why every button, card, menu, video, and photo suddenly has rounded corners? Every time you round the corners of a perfectly acceptable pointy website element an angel loses its wings. Every modern website follows the same idea of “more round == more moneys” and it makes me want to throw up. There are so many creative ways to make your website unique and yet you still shave the edges of these poor, innocent rectangles.
“Oh – but rounded corners are easier on the eyes and make the website more spacious-” I hope you drop a gallon jug of kombucha on your pinky toe. I did not come to this website to ease my eyes after a long hard-working day. I came here to watch Sonic Prime Season 3 Episode 5. Your circular sins are taking away 0.002% of the show I paid to watch. Put the corners back.
“Oh – but rounded corners make the website feel safe and comforting, pointy corners drive people away!” I did not come to this website after my uncle’s death to be comforted by the roundness of your buttons and the softness of your card layout. “But the safeness makes users more likely to spend money!” And what do you do with those stolen pennies? You force some poor web dev intern to sacrifice their joy and creativity to the “hehe square go squishy go blob shaped” gods. Nobody is going to give you money just because your buttons and card layouts are 0.5% rounder than other websites. Put the corners back.
“Oh – but some neuroscientists found that our brains prefer rounded corners-” I did not come to this website to have my brain optimized for maximum doomscrolling performance. I came here because I have 14 minutes until my dentist appointment and I’d rather look at Terraria memes than another How I Lost 60 Pounds in Two Weeks Reader’s Digest magazine from 2009. Put the corners back.
With Sincere Disgust,
Chris Mc-PUT-THE-GODDAMN-CORNERS-BACK-Elroy