VISUAL DESIGN, WEB DESIGN

Dropbox Museum

As Dropbox rapidly grew from a close-knit startup to a 3,000+ employee company with offices across the world, the need to tell the Dropbox story and preserve its defining moments and artifacts became apparent. Dropbox Museum, a website featuring a timeline and gallery, attempts to playfully organize and capture the history of the company for Dropboxers (present and future) to align behind.

Date

Spring 2023

company

Dropbox

Telling the Dropbox Story

One of the biggest challenges of this project was somehow taking 15+ years of anecdotes, numbers, and files and somehow combining it all to tell a cohesive story. I reached out to people across the company with varying tenures to curate the most defining moments from the past decade and a half— this alone took months to gather and organize.

Screen recording of the document I compiled:

Timeline

The timeline page is primarily where the story of Dropbox is told — from the very conception of the idea on a fateful bus ride in 2006, all to the way to present day. Designed for more functional/interactive purposes than the gallery, the timeline page’s visuals are pared back and more influenced by our product UI (namely Paper). The bottom right and left corners of the page provide a by-the-numbers snapshot of the company’s growth through the years and additional links and resources.

Gallery

The company’s start-up days were flush with inside jokes and quirky artifacts that would later go on to inspire the names of meeting rooms, widely-used company allegories, and initiatives. It seemed incomplete to not display all the objects and references that made up such a large portion of our company culture.