Comments on: Usability Review: Dropbox API

By: Bruno Pedro

Bruno Pedro — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 10:51:23 +0000

In reply to michael pearson. Thanks Michael! Are there any other APIs that you'd like to see tested?

By: michael pearson

michael pearson — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:21:08 +0000

Nice writeup and tests! I’d love to see a more intuitive chunked upload interface in the node library (without micro-managing the chunk cursor) – a major gotcha in uploading large files with writeFile in node’s async environment is keeping these enormous buffers in memory, which doesn’t scale out too well.

By: Usability Review: Dropbox API | API Usability Testing – The fastest way to get feedback on your API

Wed, 11 Jun 2014 12:44:15 +0000

[…] Also, Bruno summed up the results and wrote a nice summary. Check it out here: /2014/06/10/usability-dropbox-api/ […]

By: Yu-Cheng Wang

Yu-Cheng Wang — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 01:49:38 +0000

nice website and nice review!

By: Bruno Pedro

Bruno Pedro — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 19:10:19 +0000

In reply to Steve Marx. Thanks for the comment, Steve! I'm sure the results would be better it a supported language were used but Node.js is increasingly gaining popularity and it would be great if Dropbox started supporting it.

By: Steve Marx

Steve Marx — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 18:03:13 +0000

Thanks for doing this! Clearly there’s a lot of work we could do to improve things for Node.js developers. Frankly, I’m impressed that all three developers managed to work with the Datastore API despite there being no library (from us or a third party) for using that API with Node.js.

I’d be curious to see how a similar usability study would go if a supported language/library were used (e.g. Python or Objective-C).

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the Dropbox platform: smarx@dropbox.com. I work on Dropbox’s developer relations team.