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New Dropbox Homepage
- loupeabody 13y agoLooks great! Considering how the concept of a web + desktop app can confuse some less savvy users of the internet, these animations do a great job of conveying what Dropbox does. They're concise, expressive, and apparently very efficient in terms of performance. (frame data says the animations ran consistently ~60fps) I haven't got the chance to see how the site looks on mobile, however. Anyone seen this on a phone or tablet?
- scrapcode 13y agoOn my S3 http://dropbox.com http://dropbox.com redirects to https://www.dropbox.com/login?display=desktop https://www.dropbox.com/login?display=desktop -- https://www.dropbox.com/?display=desktop https://www.dropbox.com/?display=desktop, however, does display this new lander and it works just fine. Animations and everything. Looks great to me.
- lostlogin 13y agoThank you. I was trying to avoid being the who asks what's different. iPhone 4 IOS6 redirects me too (and I couldn't tell as my HN app doesn't display the URL) I see the new and like it now.
- ricardobeat 13y agoI only noticed the animations after reading this comment... thought the screens were just blank.
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- cpr 13y agoIt's probably a coincidence, since they'd have to have started the redesign a while back, but I wonder if we'll start seeing a bunch of "super-sparse" design now that iOS7 is out.
- glomph 13y ago"super-sparse" was a bandwagon joined by apple, not the other way around...
- blairbeckwith 13y agoAgreed, but it will arguably be more prominent then ever going forward, largely because of Apple doing it.
- markdennis 13y agoA bandwagon joined by Apple, sure, but one that now has considerably more momentum & exposure because of their joining.
- freehunter 13y agoI've been seeing it massively for much longer than the past couple of weeks. Think of things like Flat UI for Bootstrap.
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- jessriedel 13y agoDropbox is very well aware of this idea. They have made the explicit decision not to go this route. If you want this feature you can implement it for yourself without much trouble: http://www.dropboxwiki.com/Sync_Other_Folders http://www.dropboxwiki.com/Sync_Other_Folders But you're not who dropbox cares about.
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- xemoka 13y agoHave you tried BitTorrent Sync? It doesn't have an always available web interface but does syncing between two (or more) online machine's directories quite well.. as long as they both have connectivity at the same time.
- joeblau 13y agoTry bitsync for arbitrary directory syncing.
- adescragnolle 13y agoSugarSync - https://www.SugarSync.com https://www.SugarSync.com allows you to sync any folder you want
- zeitg3ist 13y agoNote for "international" users (including myself): set English from the language chooser. Otherwise, it'll just show the (translated) old version. If you're logged in, you should also open the site in incognito mode (or log out, eh).
- Justin_Time 13y agoGreat job! Small nitpick that's bothering me: The 'Sign up' & 'Download' text inside the bottom buttons is not vertically centered. (This is on Chrome 27.0.1453.110)
- post_break 13y agoInstead of a home page I want to see a status page with actual updates that happen when an outage occurs. Dropbox has the worst response time of any host I know, and their reactions are lethargic at best. When my contract is up I'm moving to something else.
- ja27 13y agoI know they're not quick to update it, but they do run a status page: http://status.dropbox.com/ http://status.dropbox.com/ And a twitter: https://twitter.com/DropboxOps https://twitter.com/DropboxOps
- flurian 13y agohave you considered that maybe when dropbox SREs get paged they get busy fixing the site, not updating the status page?
- post_break 13y agoIt takes 10 seconds to tweet "Experiencing and issue" and then another 10 seconds to explain why after they figure it out. It's not rocket science.
- tannerc 13y agoLooks great, absolutely. My concern is why websites like this tend to "hide" or de-value the login link. I regularly have to access the Dropbox website, but with every change they make the login button seems to get smaller and smaller. I get that they're a business and need new customers, but it feels like existing customers "just aren't that important."
- s0rce 13y agoI think in the current iteration the login link is slightly more visible, at least closer to the sign-up button, then it was in the past.
- timdorr 13y agoBecause that's not the primary access point. You normally log in through the app. For cases where you want to use the website, the app provides you a link to it that automatically logs you in. It's de-valued because the majority of people that see this page are looking to sign up, learn more about Dropbox, or download the app. This page is optimized for those common use cases.
- freehunter 13y agoThere's a perfectly valid use case for using the Dropbox site to get to your files. A huge benefit of Dropbox is the ability to access your files anywhere, including a computer that does not or even cannot have the client installed. I'm thinking of a library machine at your university, your grandmother's computer, a friend's computer where you don't want to sign them out of their own desktop client, a work laptop where you're not allowed to install your own software, etc.
- oatmealsnap 13y agoyea, and it's pretty clear where to log in.
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- aviswanathan 13y agoI'm sometimes a skeptic of flat design, but the flattened Dropbox icon looks awesome on the new site.
- loupeabody 13y agoNot entirely flat design on the new homepage (the buttons have form), but the new wiki design[0] does seem almost entirely flat without bandwagoning. Confusingly, the old logo is still present in the new wiki. [0]http://new.dropboxwiki.com/ http://new.dropboxwiki.com/
- namank 13y agoInteresting. My question is why is this setup like a landing page of a pre-funding startup? Or am I missing something?
- cpursley 13y agoThe download button is where the signin button should be. Having login in the upper righthand corner is a long seated UX pattern - there is very little logic to messing with it. Now every time I go to signin, I'm going to accidentally download dropbox. This is going to confuse the hell out of non-technical people like my dad, a dropbox user, but not a very patient one. I'm sure I'll get a confused call from him in a few days... Plus, I'll have to go into his downloads folder several times a year to remove all the dropbox install files that were inadvertently downloaded.
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoI don't want to judge your dad, but does he actually read links before clicking them?
- cpursley 13y agoThat's a good point, a lot of people don't. That's why its prudent to use good UX patterns. Everybody knows that signin is the upper righthand corner. Breaking the mold to progress a pattern or for a specific project is fine, but the login? There's 0 reasons for this.
- lelandbatey 13y agoWait, what? You have literally three links on that page. Each at MAX two words. If there's a person who wouldn't even read a total of five words when they see a new interface then I really don't want them to be my customer. They sound like far more trouble than they're worth.
- richforrester 13y agoHow about instead of looking at the people who take exception to the position of the download link in the right top, we look at why you're so dead set on having it there? That's the same kind of logic. People who expect the login link at that spot might as well reverse that attitude on you, and think to themselves: "if there's a person who insists on putting the download link where the login button usually resides, then I really don't want to be their customer. They sound like far more trouble then they're worth." I guess the both of you will be happy, but also, the both of you will miss out. Not a great attitude in business or UI design.
- nhangen 13y agoThis is nothing special. Just a few animations and sketched graphics. Edit: curious why the downvotes? Usually we hold ourselves to high standards on this board. We bash all the little guys, but Dropbox doesn't have to be held accountable to inspiring design?