Dropbox Transfer Backgrounds: Mobile

Here's one of the animated digital artworks we did for Dropbox Transfer: https://www.dropbox.com/transfer/

We had to work within Dropbox's guidelines to make sure the background lives in peace with the upload file UI. Some of the requirements included:

- The background shouldn’t be distracting, have lots of fast moving parts, or seizure-inducing.
- No single focal points: Since Transfer’s main UI modal is in the center, we shouldn’t have backgrounds that have a central focal point, which could be covered by the modal. Background should work regardless if the modal is present or not.
- Flexible dimensions with graceful fallbacks: We need to support sizes for desktop, tablet, mobile, email, the design should be flexible to support varying dimensions, and can fall back to a still image if all things fail (poor network connection, incompatibility, old browsers, etc)
- Work within the predetermined brand pairings (https://www.dropbox.com/branding/vendor?ac=dHR7FqOkDzE8eL2Pyxoa#color)

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