After introducing a requirement for rounded square icons in March, Google now allows developers to use the new icon specification. Google introduced the requirement to “bring consistency and a cleaner ...

Hand-dug wells are predominantly circular due to structural advantages, ease of construction, and long-term cost savings.

Below, you’ll find a short video preview of some of the thoughts behind the new UX, but the basic idea is that the 18:9 display ratio allows for two square windows to sit side-by-side for multi ...

Rounded corners, in contrast, help alleviate such stresses by distributing it around the circumference of the window as opposed to having it concentrated in the corner of a 90 degree square window.

Twitter user @cr_c2cv spotted that when users have the #rounded-windows flag enabled, these rounded corners will be applied to system elements like pop-out windows and full windows (via 9to5Google).

Google Play on Android and Chrome OS will dynamically apply rounded corners and drop shadows to icons. The corner radius will be 20% of the icon size, to ensure consistency at different sizes.