The Future Of Web Design

Leaf Corner Boxes have a meaning and a reasoning behind them. A Leaf corner box means a movement in the direction of greener future. It is called a Leaf Corner Box because it resembles the shape of a leaf. Now for the reasoning about the box.

Our Eyes read left to right in most countries. The top left rounded corner starts out the box telling our eye to follow “around” the edge. The hard corner tells use to go down, then down to the next rounded corner this tells us go back to the left side and the hard corner ends the content block. When used with contrast and another box below our eye drops down and starts again.

So when we think of a user as scanning the page, instead of reading the page (because if they are reading they are going l to r and down as they go)They see the content of the box as if they were to read it, they get to the end and the box says “Hey Eye go back to the other side nice and smoothly” and the eye sees the end and goes down to the next content block. The bottom right corner once again instructs the eye to go back to the beginning instead of a hard corner leaving the eye to exit on the right and being forced back to the left to start “reading”/seeing the next box.

The corners can also be switched around depending on how you want your user to scan your content. If you are fixated on the user reading your content switch the corners around telling the eye to start at the sharp/high contrast point and continue down the box as the rounded corner goes >>>>\/\/ then they will exit your content on the right, then going to the sidebar. Good for sites who need their content read then a course of action taken after it has been read instead of emphasizing on the next chunk of content.

Hope this makes sense

Tags: boxes, corners, leaf, web 4.0, web design

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