Aaron-Junker
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2 years ago /dup #18052
Closed Nirmal4G closed 2 years ago
Aaron-Junker
commented
2 years ago /dup #18052
ghost
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2 years ago Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Just like the title says, Disable the rounded corners in Windows 11 or rather make the corner radius so small that in the perceived way, it looks sharp. The reason, at least for me, is simple. The new rounded corner is too rounded. Personally, I like rounded things but not too much rounded. At a distance, it should look sharp but smooth enough so it shouldn't hurt my eye. That's where is my sweet spot for roundedness/sharpness.
If I want to explain a bit holistically, it's because of the way the pixels are displayed in a monitor. In a panel where a physical pixel is sharp quadrilateral, the rounded geometry gets very distracting when looking at top-level objects where they should fade into the background, instead comes into focus and becomes very annoying to look at. Even if the panel has high resolution and anti-aliasing enabled, it would not result in the same experience when sharp corners are used. I'm not an expert in design but my experience in looking at drawn things all day in every type of panel conceivable let me arrive at this conclusion.
My best advice to the Windows design team is that use round corners where you want your users to focus on that object. I don't want to focus on the Windows border but the content of the Window itself. And for sharp-cornered geometry, use a corner radius that looks sharp from a viewable distance but becomes visibly rounded and smooth (this is important) at a closer focused distance.
Scenario when this would be used?
All the time. Everywhere a Window and a top-level sharp-cornered geometry is being drawn.
Supporting information
From Valentin-Gabriel Radu
From Linus' Tech Tips
And there are a lot of twitter hate for these rounded corners being distracting or too much roundedness. I also have logged an issue in Feedback Hub: https://aka.ms/AAhcddj
If I remember properly, you've already explained it properly about using too-much roundedness when explaining UI/UX design for Windows 8x at BUILD and at GDC. I don't know why you guys come up with a different explanation now. That made sense but the current rules for roundedness don't. I have been using Windows 11 since the preview days and I get headaches more often than using Windows 10. Thankfully the above tool saved me from getting anymore pain!