Rounded corners, hierarchical grids, assistive tech, UX vision statements

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Rounded corners — they’re everywhere. From software user interfaces to hardware product design, there is something intrinsically satisfying about the look and feel of a rounded corner. In fact, designers have been using them so much that they became an industry standard rather than a design trend. But why are rounded corners so popular?

Why do we round corners? →By Gonçalo Dias

The UX Collective is an independent ad-free design publication that elevates unheard design voices, reaching over 500k+ designers every week. Curated by Fabricio Teixeira and Caio Braga.

Editors’ picks

Designing design skills →
How to design skill grids for your product design team.
By Audrey Hacq
Assistive tech overview →Accessible technology and the accessibility tree.
By Louise Clark, CPWA
Decentralized finance →10 things I’ve learned designing DeFi.
By Jon Crabb

Mathematician and wordplay fan Ali Lloyd share his thoughts on hit internet word game Wordle.

Make me think

Differences between correctness and usefulness in a design system →
“At some point it gets tricky to decide what should be in the Figma library vs. what should be in something that lives in Storybook. Do we put all our guides about how to use these components in Figma? Or what about the does and dont’s? What about props and component names — do we follow precisely what’s in Storybook even if it’s bad or something we’re embarrassed by?”
When is the revolution in architecture coming? →
“Something is terribly wrong with architecture. Nearly everything being built is boring, joyless, and/or ugly, even though there is no reason it has to be. The architectural profession rewards work that is pretentious and bland. The cities we build are not wondrous.”

Little gems this week

3 historical instances in which dataviz saved humanity →By Mala Deep

Content-first: thinking about hierarchical grids →By Kai Wong

Making design systems flexible with design tokens →
By Marc Andrew

Tools and resources

Icônes.js →
Icon Explorer with Instant searching.
UX vision statement →
Creating vision statements to increase team alignment.
Inclusion-first →
How to make your product accessible and inclusive.
By Mandy Cornwell

We believe designers are thinkers as much as they are makers. So we created the design newsletter we have always wanted to receive. Feel free to forward this to your friends.

Rounded corners, hierarchical grids, assistive tech, UX vision statements was originally published in UX Collective on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Rounded corners, hierarchical grids, assistive tech, UX vision statements

Comments

More from this blog

State of UX, we don’t need more managers, prototyping with data

The State of UX in 2025: a love letter about change

Creativity is the only thing, moving from Figma to Protopie, semantic color palettes

Impersonal software, dev-design mismatch, embracing play in design

IC or Manager, laid off twice, prototyping with AI

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Editors’ picks

Make me think

Little gems this week

Tools and resources

Command Palette

Comments

More from this blog

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

Editors’ picks

Make me think

Little gems this week

Tools and resources