Is godawful rainbow design the new thing now? First Mozilla, and now Dropbox?
Evolving the Dropbox Brand
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#62Omg the site is so jerky in desktop Safari.
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#63Omg the site is so jerky in desktop Safari.
It's also similarly bad on iPad mobile Safari, actually making me feel a bit sick...
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#64Uhhh, did they only change the logo? Did they come out with a new product, or alter Dropbox's functionality?
I really don't understand what this is all about.
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#65The scroll on the page is a terrible idea. I was under the impression the page has a problem, with the delay between the left/right pane, until I realized it was intentional ...
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#66This is just so sad. I've used, paid for, and loved Dropbox for years and years. It is really worrying that anyone in the company felt it was OK to launch this rebrand.
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#67Wow. 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.
The alternating scrolling is especially bad on a touchscreen because the scrollable page area also alternates between the left and right sides of the page. You have to swipe on one side of the page until it stops, then deduce that you haven't hit the page end and then start swiping in the other side of the page.
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#68"You need to enable JavaScript to run this app."
No thanks, there're exactly zero reasons to have webpage like this JS only.
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#69They have posted some additional information on their blog: https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2017/10/creative-energy-ke... You can see the new frontpage here: https://www.dropbox.com/allyours
> That’s why today we’re excited to tell...
I always perceive words like "excited" in PR statements as corporate narcissism. This kind of language shows that they have become too self-absorbed, the new unfitting design is just another symptom of it.
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#70I was truly convinced that this must be a third party joke, but it appears Dropbox really does own dropbox.design.