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Comment by mlazos | Hacker News Reader

This reminded me exactly of that Dropbox design page at dropbox.design - it was the exact same frustrating experience. If this is a trend please make it stop.

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Same agency http://www.xxix.co/

I wonder how the decision process went.

Perhaps something along the lines: "Wow, look at that ugly page from Dropbox. My eyes hurt! Let's make ours even uglier!"

It's all about "Designer experience", not "User Experience" in this case (i.e. trying to be edgy for the sake of it, in order to impress your designer / PM peers)

Is this a joke? I visited the website on my phone and it's horrible broken with "cards" all over the place.

https://twitter.com/richlyons_/status/978449888655556613

I'm unsure to be honest.

Their website UX is far worse than IBM Plex. How can it be?

For what it's worth, and setting aside opinions on the design itself, at least https://dropbox.design/ never steals focus or disables core navigation keys in frustrating, alternating ways.

I don't understand this comment. That page removes the ability to scroll via pageup/down, via arrow keys, via spacebar, and via a scroll-bar on the right (even when force-enabled via operating system settings). It appears that the only way to scroll is via mouse wheel. How is that not disabling core navigation in a frustrating way?

Interesting. They all work fine for me. I wonder why?

I have tested on Firefox 59 and Chrome 65 in Linux.

For me they didn't work until I clicked in the page. Chrome 60 and Firefox 58 on Linux.

Doesn't that just mean your browser window didn't have focus? I can scroll on apps in the background with scroll wheel but not arrow keys, etc.. That's just an OS thing

No, the window and tab were focused. It would be that the scrollable element wasn't focused.

Also all worked for me in Chrome 65 on Windows.

>dropbox.design

This is fucking mental, seriously.

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