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Why Rounded Corners are Easier on the Eyes - UX Movement
►http://uxmovement.com/thinking/why-rounded-corners-are-easier-on-the-eyes

Anyone can appreciate the aesthetic beauty of rounded corners, but not everyone can explain where exactly that beauty comes from. The answer to that is literally in your eye.

Some experts say that rectangles with rounded corners are easier on the eyes than a rectangle with sharp edges because they take less cognitive effort to visually process. The fovea is fastest at processing circles. Processing edges involve more “neuronal image tools” in the brain [1]. Thus, rectangles with rounded corners are easier process because they look closer to a circle than a regular rectangle.

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6 Surprising Bad Practices That Hurt #Dyslexic Users - UX Movement
►http://uxmovement.com/content/6-surprising-bad-practices-that-hurt-dyslexic-users

As design­ers, we can help dyslexic users read text more flu­ently and accu­rately by under­stand­ing and avoid­ing the bad #design prac­tices that hurt dyslexic users. See­ing things from their eyes can give us a bet­ter per­spec­tive on why acces­si­ble design is so important.
When dyslexic users read text, some­times they can expe­ri­ence visual dis­tor­tion effects [5]. These effects vary in degree from per­son to per­son, but they can make read­ing text that much harder. Below are six bad prac­tices that are likely to cause these visual dis­tor­tion effects for dyslexic users.