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Evolving the Dropbox Brand – Dropbox Design

12 pointsby geekraxover 7 years ago

6 comments

smt88over 7 years ago
Personally, I find this to be hideous, like a &quot;worst of 1980&#x27;s magazines&quot; theme. Twitter has a bunch of people pointing out that it performs poorly on many devices and abuses HTML, among other offenses[1].<p>Beyond personally, it&#x27;s absolutely absurd for a major web company to ignore accessibility in 2017. Many of the color variations are low-contrast and will be difficult for people with vision impairments, like low sight and problems with colors.<p>What an absolute disaster. Dropbox is a utility -- I don&#x27;t want it to be edgy and novel. I want it to be solid and functional. Imagine if Microsoft Office re-branded this way.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DropboxDesign&#x2F;status&#x2F;915249755906727936" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;DropboxDesign&#x2F;status&#x2F;915249755906727936</a>
MarkColeover 7 years ago
Not really loving the new branding if I&#x27;m being honest but I hope it will grow on me.<p>The <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dropbox.design" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dropbox.design</a> site is terrible, my main gripe being it completely destroys scrolling. The complete mishmash of moving parts also makes it a pain to get into a flow of reading it.
ukuleleover 7 years ago
I read through it and I still don&#x27;t even know what the new logo is, or if there is one, or what has changed. Someone got paid for this?
nkkollawover 7 years ago
This is pretty bad...
SippinLeanover 7 years ago
I thought they were using the new &quot;parametric&quot; font scaling technology but they just swap the fonts at different breakpoints.
hivenover 7 years ago
Not a huge fan, but will keep an open mind