Evolving the Dropbox Brand • Hacker News Board

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

#11

Post by mellamoyo » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:20 PM UTC

What are fellow HN'ers using for file sync/sharing? I was a Dropbox early adopter but haven't been as impressed as of late, with Dropbox suddenly trying to integrate into my MS Office apps and trying to upload my screenshots and photos.

I'm not a huge fan of Google Drive's recent redesign either. I like box.com but haven't moved anything yet.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by mangecoeur » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

ferdbold wrote: post #5

Wow, that scrolling is a trainwreck

Indeed, I'm kitted out with the same hipster mac I suspect the design folks use, yet simply scrolling down was a mess. Not sure what they tested this with :/

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by kylec » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

ferdbold wrote: post #5

Wow, that scrolling is a trainwreck

Yup. This is what it looks like in Safari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYPWaKHmAhE

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by _qbjt » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:23 PM UTC

This is the worst UX I've seen in a long time. Not only that, it's visually garish. Apparently the designers at Dropbox have never heard of color theory.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

#15

Post by mugsie » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:24 PM UTC

Wow. that is (from my perspective - but only mine) terrible.

Janky scrolling, things flying around, random animations that don't finish before you scroll past them.

The left / right alternate scroll is .... unsettling.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by kylec » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:25 PM UTC

Let's hope this brand evolution is better engineered than the web page that's announcing it. The scrolling is appalling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYPWaKHmAhE

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by pcmaffey » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:25 PM UTC

Wow, that broke my browser (chrome, no less). I love innovative UX, but multiple internal scrollbars, a tag that shows up as text at the bottom of the page, hijacked and then broken scrolling. Looks more like a college web design project than something that would come out of a top web company... yikes.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

#18

Post by blocke » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:25 PM UTC

My response to this site as someone who has had a paid Dropbox account for years:

Oh no. Oh... no. follow link to dropbox.com Ugh. What happened?

I'm now under the impression Dropbox will go out of business and I need to explore alternatives.

Edit: I think I identified what makes me intensely dislike it. The color scheme and design screams "This is no longer for you, it's for hipsters."

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:26 PM UTC

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Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

#20

Post by darkstar999 » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:26 PM UTC

mellamoyo wrote: post #11

What are fellow HN'ers using for file sync/sharing? I was a Dropbox early adopter but haven't been as impressed as of late, with Dropbox suddenly trying to integrate into my MS Office apps and trying to upload my screenshots and photos. I'm not a huge fan of Google Drive's recent redesign either. I like box.com but haven't moved anything yet.

Resilio Sync, although I'm not necessarily advocating for it. It's nice to have an option where nothing is in "the cloud".