Evolving the Dropbox Brand • Hacker News Board

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by underyx » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:33 PM UTC

ferdbold wrote: post #5

Wow, that scrolling is a trainwreck

Agreed. Also, it seems to have completely broken Ctrl-F functionality. I especially hated how it encouraged resizing the browser to check different fonts, and then just pushed me back to the top of the page making me fight the scrolling system to get back to where I was.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by gk1 » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

cupofjoakim wrote: post #25

I see what they wanted to do, but I think they misjudged their users. The non design oriented people using this will probably think that this is horrible - which it is (for this purpose). This kind of playful and color heavy design isn't new or bad, it's just that it has a really hard time breaking out of the art/design magazine area. It's impractical, forces the user to look extra hard, uses non-traditional color co…

We don't know how the UI will look, which is what matters. Of course the design announcement will be over-designed.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by lessclue » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

Wow, this is truly terrible. Those colors are godawful.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

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Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by joelrunyon » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

mugsie wrote: post #15

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.

It hurts my eyes...

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by revelation » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

_qbjt wrote: post #14

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.

All this scrolling is making my finger hurt. Have to scroll the equivalent of 100 A4 pages to get content that would have fit onto a sticky note.

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by moocowtruck » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

this has to be the worst website i've been on since 1997

double scroll bars? I can't scroll by clicking? all kinds of colors that don't work, i'm so confused right now i'll just pretend it didnt exist..

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by gk1 » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

Everyone is dumping on this, but I, for one, applaud their daring to try something that doesn't look like every other SaaS brand out there. (And besides, Box.com already beat them to that.)

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by bpicolo » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:39 PM UTC

> Hello, this is Sharp Grotesk

They nailed it on grotesk

Re: Evolving the Dropbox Brand

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Post by cookiecaper » Tue, Oct 03, 2017, 5:39 PM UTC

chrissnell wrote: post #24

That typeface is just dreadful. Dropbox is a utilitarian business product, not a mid-century art exhibit.

Yeah, the text is really weird, I had a hard time reading any of it. The letters just seem too wide, out of proportion. I almost wonder if I have an extension blocking some adaptive-text-resizing script or something, because it doesn't seem like they'd actually want it to look that way...