A menubar experiment:
• Text shows storage available and current status message
• Clicking large Dropbox icon takes you to Dropbox website
• Pause button pauses syncing
• Progress bar shows amount of storage used/available
• Gear button shows Dropbox preferences window
Seems strange that there's a pause button if all files are up to date (even though after a bit, I understood why). Progress bar may be confused with sync progress since it's tied with pause. And a really really minor nitpick that the 4 seems a pixel off of the pause in alignment and the dropbox icon is off from the gear.
Overall though, I'm glad you're playing around with these and I think you've been underselling your visual chops.
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A menubar experiment:
• Text shows storage available and current status message
• Clicking large Dropbox icon takes you to Dropbox website
• Pause button pauses syncing
• Progress bar shows amount of storage used/available
• Gear button shows Dropbox preferences window
12 months ago
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Kevin Cheng
Seems strange that there's a pause button if all files are up to date (even though after a bit, I understood why). Progress bar may be confused with sync progress since it's tied with pause. And a really really minor nitpick that the 4 seems a pixel off of the pause in alignment and the dropbox icon is off from the gear.
Overall though, I'm glad you're playing around with these and I think you've been underselling your visual chops.
11 months ago
Great feedback, Kevin. Moving the pause button to the other side of the progress bar might help with the sync progress confusion.
11 months ago