It’s about the direction of the business, and where it wants to be in the future.įor more from Brian, and how the Internet went from frantic to accepting of the new Dropbox identity, watch the full livestream recap above. This language would take them out of being just a utility, and into a much larger, higher-order conversation about the nature of collaboration and creativity.īy focusing on this key benefit of supporting creative communities, the visual identity of the brand was then reimagined to show this in an engaging way.īrian admits that there are things he and his team could have articulated better with the rollout of this new brand, but in the end, he and Chris remind us that there’s more to a rebrand than a new color palette. To shift from the product to the benefits, a new language needed to be spoken by Dropbox. There was no clear language being spoken that reached out to their target audience. They were tasked with reimagining the Dropbox platform as one for creativity, not just file-sharing.īefore the rebrand, Dropbox was not communicating who they really were as a company. In this video, Brian Collins explains why the Dropbox logo was redesigned in the first place, and why all creatives need to remember it’s not just about the design it’s about the business.īrian Collins and his team were brought on to help Dropbox grow their business beyond “storage". The Dropbox logo design has been revealed out at the end of commercial video posted on YouTube a week ago. His firm, Collins, has worked with some of the biggest companies to do their rebrands, like Ogilvy and Spotify. He’s been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, as well as plenty other publications, and is the recipient of a number of awards such as American Master of Design, among others. That’s why Brian Collins, the CCO and co-founder of Collins is here to talk about how he and his team approach the creative brief, the strategy, and why he embraces all knee-jerk reactions.įor those who don’t know him, Brian Collins is an extremely accomplished design leader. There was plenty of backlash and criticism that came with this rebrand. Note: For either approach you have to kill/restart the explorer.exe process(es) for the changes to take effect.When Dropbox unveiled their new brand identity, the Internet entered into a frenzy.
#DROPBOX LOGO MANUAL#
If you prefer the manual approach, you can still rename or delete the entries under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
#DROPBOX LOGO WINDOWS#
Windows will apply the first 15 Enabled overlays. NirSoft's ShellExView is a handy tool to enable/disable Shell Icon Overlays without needing to mess around in the registry. Overlays 3, 4, 6 and 8 are duplicates of the primary 4, but for locked files. The 4 primary status icons described in this Dropbox help doc are 1, 2, 5, and 7. Disabling one of the overlays above will affect both. There are not separate overlays for files and folders. | Dropbo圎xt8 | Gray (lock) | A file/folder isn't syncing (locked file) | | Dropbo圎xt7 | Gray | A file/folder isn't syncing | | Dropbo圎xt6 | Red (lock) | Sync not happening (locked file) | | Dropbo圎xt5 | Red | Sync not happening | | Dropbo圎xt4 | Blue (lock) | Sync in progress (locked file) | Drew’s responsible for the direction and product strategy of. He’s led our growth from a simple idea to a service used by hundreds of millions of people around the world.
| Dropbo圎xt3 | Green (lock) | Synced! (locked file) | Dropbox helps people be organized, stay focused, and get in sync with their teams.
#DROPBOX LOGO WINDOWS 7#
I went through and enabled/disabled each Dropbox Shell Icon Overlays and found the following results below on Windows 7 圆4 and Dropbox 2.10.30.
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