A new visual language for Slack • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·27 Oct 2023
As we embarked on the largest evolution to Slack’s information architecture, us designers believed it was the perfect opportunity to evolve Slack’s iconic look and feel.
How our biggest redesign yet came to be • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·25 Oct 2023
The timing was right. We were adding in new features like huddles, canvases, lists, and others into a UI system that was originally designed solely for messaging capabilities.
Living and creating our values on the Slack Creative team • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·3 Aug 2023
I’ve spent the past five years at Slack building both the Slack brand and the Slack creative team. While I’m immensely proud of both accomplishments, the latter takes the cake.
Complex, compact, celebratory: Bringing the Add to MPDM feature to life in Slack • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·18 May 2023
While Slack fields many requests, the creation of a feature to add people to a direct message was something our design team heard frequently.
A behind-the-scenes look at building the Slack Design illustration library • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·27 Apr 2023
When Slack’s new website launched in 2017, I felt like a kid in a candy store. As a brand designer, there’s nothing more exciting than having new brand fonts and an entire library of illustrations...
My time as a Year Up intern at Slack • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·20 Apr 2023
It may be weird to say my life changed because of an app most people use to fall down multi-hour rabbit holes to watch people dance or try out a viral recipe like NyQuil chicken, but it did.
How we design for admin experiences: baking good content into the process • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·13 Apr 2023
Hi, my name is Stella, a designer working on the Slack platform administration experience. My job is to take care of a special group of users, our Slack administrators.
Design Ops on being changemakers, team cheerleaders and great listeners • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·6 Apr 2023
Hey friends! MJ and Sheila here to talk to you about Design Ops at Slack, our passion for the field, and the guiding principles we live by in our day-to-day work.
The myth of the lightbulb moment: How to actually come up with ideas • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·30 Mar 2023
A huge international campaign. A compelling headline on a city billboard. A viral video. They all have one thing in common: they started with an idea.
What we've learned about designing for accessibility from our users • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·23 Mar 2023
Slack’s accessibility team recently launched a series of changes to make navigating around Slack more reliable and efficient for keyboard-only and screen reader users.
How to bring your work (and yourself) to internship interviews at Slack • Slack Design
Slack Designby lcarmen2·13 Mar 2023
When you’re looking for an internship, there can be pressure to have all the right stuff—enrollment in a design program at a prestigious university, prior internship experience at big name...
How we redesigned Slack for the iPad • Slack Design
Slack Designby skazan2·2 Sept 2022
We all get our work done differently. Some of us are at our desks from 9 to 5, while others work more flexible hours. Some of us commute to work, while others work from home (or do both).
Beyond the last message: Designing for all information in Slack • Slack Design
Slack Designby lisa·14 Apr 2022
Slack is primarily designed for team communication in channels. Channels are where work happens: It’s where teams exchange ideas, get feedback, and share files.
How we transcend languages and formats — even with our onboarding emails • Slack Design
Slack Designby lisa·18 Mar 2022
Hi, we’re Alison and Zoe, Associate and Junior Designers, respectively, and we just joined Slack in fall of 2021. Our first project here: building guidelines for onboarding emails.
Sweating the small stuff • Slack Design
Slack Designby lisa·20 Jan 2022
How Slack invests in big little details through Customer Love Sprints Most businesses say they love their customers. Slack is no exception! But what does that mean practically?
How we layered product principles to refresh Slack notifications • Slack Design
Slack Designby mlivingstone·30 Nov 2021
Close your eyes and imagine yourself using Slack. What are two phrases you’d use to describe that experience?
Getting to know your remote teammates • Slack Design
Slack Designby mlivingstone·2 Nov 2021
Fostering a sense of connection with your team is probably the hardest part of working remotely. When you work in an office together, you can walk by someone’s desk and give them a friendly...
How to say no to meetings without feeling guilty • Slack Design
Slack Designby lisa·14 Oct 2021
Being immersed in Slack’s highly collaborative culture and an even closer-knit team, saying no to meetings used to be slightly terrifying.
The story of Slack Clips: Prototyping the path to audio and video messages • Slack Design
Slack Designby mlivingstone·29 Sept 2021
We recently announced the rollout of audio and video clips in Slack, which allow anyone on Slack’s paid plans to send audio, video, and screen share messages.
Make things that people want (instead of what you want them to want) • Slack Design
Slack Designby mlivingstone·7 Sept 2021
There are plenty of comprehensive pieces on the practice of product design out there—our own Kyle Turman has written an excellent post on the Pillars of Digital Product Design—but there’s a crucial...
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