Why we like specific design.

Why we have likings???

Or

Why we like certain shapes (web designs)

Answers from my professional life:

Why we like certain shapes, being designer , its most tricky question to answer, well if try to look for an answer from my professional life its very simple “ it’s not what I like, it’s what my clients like,”, but Clients are also humans, so what can be possibly be the reason for their liking (a specific design). The feedback provided by my clients well says it all. But Is there room for us, to formulate a liking of a person or group, if we succeed in doing so well ,I can provide him a better option, and establish a good understanding between me and my clients, hence narrowing chances of getting my designs rejected.

Turning pages of history to find some answers
Let’s move our feet’s backward and try to answer one basic question why we like something. Well as for many its matter of what pleases us, when I say pleasing, now can it can go both ways. For example I don’t smoke and a thought pleases me that I am not counted in smoker and have a good health. On the other hand there are people who smoke and its act that pleases them and a fictitious feeling of a matured male. But when we speak about designs does it hold true there too.
Let’s keep moving, further back to prehistoric time when man just stared to get hold on object and started to portray his or her feeling on caves. Now what he painted or tried to carve out was his own personal surrounding and his emotions. But as man moved forward in search for a better life he kept on redefining word comfort in every aspect of his living. So does that means that now rounded rectangles are more comfort for human that sharp edged one? I will answer this question little latter. But for now let’s continue with a fact that it’s need of a comfort living that pushes to excel in their profession. This whole act led just increase available options. There are people who are more close to frame liking (context to designs). I also draws one conclusion that best art find best price and So does it means we have good designs will be possessed by rich and famous.

Likings and possession.

The a good old story says, whenever a good thought converted to a good presentation(could be painting, sculpture, design….etc), for example a good picture receives a good price and it move to a good wealthy people becoming there assets. Provided creator is willing to sell. In today’s world its figured as demand chain supply.

A short survey to know people around me.

To understand better I had a survey, only volunteer I could manage was my colleges they had no clue. What I was planning, even one shouted at me saying you don’t have any works this is crazy and childish. I kept looking for answers. I went asked them to draw a figure they liked. Some took time thinking and figuring out what they liked and was it feasible to sketch and some even went into a thought how there sketch might be judged what will be good to sketch. But now one drew computer, mouse, key board which was strange they spent more than 10 hrs with it. So does it means liking it’s not a fact what we have and living with, how much we enjoy having one thing.
Well there were few who kept wondering what to draw. Some were quick, but most of the figures were form geometry only. This shows my colleagues were very with academics unlike me, who might have drawn any silly figure, which had no meaning and latter explaining what it looks like. Now if I asked was same question to a kid that is school going, in a fraction of second he drew rectangle and some circles. Even smaller kids drew. Non geometrical shapes that’s surrounded them but they did it quick. Without asking any question.

Time to summaries.
Having an option on menu.

Liking is primarily based on a fact that we live out changes, how much we relish what we have. At times when we don’t really enjoy things, well so start to look for (change)options, I won’t be looking for change unless I know how to live a creative life out of it. But as the world shrunk it did our abilities, as we started excelling in specific domains. So if we need clothes well I have fashion designer who are master of dressing. They have all your answers, what you should and should not wear, when and why. They are the one, who are creative and provides all us with many options. as they have better understanding of the field the people. So does it makes sense at moment you have an options, it means you start liking one of them.

I have one more instance where I see you thirsty and I keep, bear and soft drink, milk and water. What you go for, it’s you to decide, but does it say something too you, having things on menu it’s not liking. You experimenting and experience a change. Most of the time it’s our past good experience that we want to live again and with more good added to it. When you experiment when you have a good time and you stand at safer end. And if you are experimenting a change well you are paying some good amount, the word amount brings affordability. So how feasible a change is? Is a big question for now.

Answering the core question:

So does that answer my basic question why I like rounded rectangles to one with sharp edges answer is straight we had these to shapes before also, but at that time it was not feasible to have these shapes at our websites but its modern cutting edge technology that’s passing its new parameter and making new dimensions. There are people who are coming through breakthrough every strike of clock. They make things happen but at a big cost. So their technology users will have concerns for them affordability, feasibility and compatibility, with various technologies that are integrated in web. But it’s in
What I have seen and known over the time, “our liking of certain shape (context to shapes in web design) is based not based on a question what we have but for now, what we can have from available options.”