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Dan answers questions

I get these questions (or similarly-phrased questions) often enough that I figured it would be helpful to post my responses somewhere. So, uh, here you go.


Q: What changes did you see in the design process at Dropbox from when you started to when you left and how did that impact you as a designer?

A: When I first joined Dropbox, I was the latest in a team of about a dozen designers in a 400-person company. This small size allowed the whole team to critique one another’s work on a weekly basis, and frequently bother someone at their desk. By the time I left Dropbox, the company was almost 2,000 people, and the design team had grown to about 60 people (including product designers, researchers, content strategists, and illustrators). We went through a series of changes to adjust for our growth, but in the design team there were a few notable ones.