Mobile Bridge: Making WebViews Feel Native (2025) - Shopify
We built a framework that transforms WebViews in the Shopify app to feel native and solve performance and integration challenges without rebuilding for mobile.
“Product Kondo”: A Guide To Evaluating Your Organizational Product Portfolio — Smashing Magazine
It starts with good intentions — a quick fix here, a shiny feature there — and suddenly, your product portfolio’s bursting at the seams. In this guide, Talke Hoppmann-Walton walks you through a “Product Kondo” exercise to declutter, realign, and spark some serious product joy for both your business and your customers.
Figma's 2025 AI report: Perspectives from designers and developers
Figma’s AI report tells us how designers and developers are navigating the changing landscape.
A guide to deciding what AI model to use in GitHub Copilot
What to look for with each model and how to test them in your workflows—with tips, tricks, and pointers.
Boosting Up Your Creativity Without Endless Reference Scrolling — Smashing Magazine
While it is clear that creativity is driven by both the left and right hemispheres, an important question remains: how can we boost creativity while keeping the process enjoyable? It may not be obvious, but non-design-related activities can, in fact, be an opportunity to enhance creativity.
Our journey to type checking 4 million lines of Python
Why we built a custom Rust library for Capture
How Edison is helping us build a faster, more powerful Dropbox on the web
Fast and Accurate Document Detection for Scanning
Cannes: How ML saves us $1.7M a year on document previews
How image search works at Dropbox
Optimizing payments with machine learning
Accelerating our A/B experiments with machine learning
Don't you (forget NLP): Prompt injection with control characters in ChatGPT
Is this a date? Using ML to identify date formats in file names
Putting everything in its right place with ML-powered file organization
Smart move uses machine learning to analyze a user’s existing subfolder structure and suggest folders where they might want to move their files. Here's how the feature was built.
Bye Bye Bye...: Evolution of repeated token attacks on ChatGPT models
Building on prior prompt injection research, we recently discovered a new training data extraction vulnerability involving OpenAI’s chat completion models.
Bringing AI-powered answers and summaries to file previews on the web
Selecting a model for semantic search at Dropbox scale
Nautilus is our search engine for finding documents and other files in Dropbox. Here's how it created the foundation for us to build better search functionality to understand more nuanced queries.
zxcvbn: realistic password strength estimation
Implementing end-to-end encryption for Dropbox teams
Learn more about our implementation of end-to-end encryption for teams, the threat model of our design and encryption algorithms, and our commitment to minimizing the risk of data loss with a team-centric key management approach.
Inside the Magic Pocket
Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
