Why, oh why, do we continue to perpetuate this affront to good taste? The rounded corner, a design element once meant to soften the edges of our digital world, has instead become a crutch for the creatively bereft.
Consider the humble login button: a rectangle with rounded corners, because why not? It's not as if the user needs to actually interact with it, just click the pretty thing.
Or take the rounded search bar: a vessel for your most intimate queries, and yet it's rounded to the point of being almost, but not quite, recognizable as a search bar at all.
And don't even get me started on the rounded social media icons, each one a tiny, toothless smile, inviting you to join the club, but really just asking you to sign away your soul in exchange for a few more 'likes'.
No, we must resist this scourge of roundedness. We must stand strong against the tide of lazy design.
Rounded Rectangles: The Final Insult