Slack's Design

Introduction

One day when I read "is group chat making you sweat?" a really big light bulb went off in my head. I realized that Slack's design really was a huge problem, and people needed to know about it. I believe that Slack's design is not good for remote work in particular despite being constantly touted as a great solution for it.

How Slack killed Email

• Email's slow decent caused it be filled with spam
• Slack solved Email's transparency problem.
• Slack also solved Email's overly formal problem.
• Slack was even more addictive

Flaws

1. Slack is a black hole of information
2. Slack is a form of Social Media and uses Dark Patterns to encourage addiction to drive engagement.
3. Slack is designed to keep you busy not effective.
4. Slack destroys Deep Work by it's broken notification model and Slack's broken hierarchy of priority.
5. Slack makes it impossible to talk in context because of it's app that does one thing model as opposed to Basecamp's an all-in-one solution model.

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Keywords: Slack Threads, Group chat, Slack

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Backlinks:

• 'easier to ask then find' problem
• Basecamp's Design
• Doing things the fun way
• Slack MOC
• Slack Threads
• Slack fragments your hardrive
• Slack is a black hole of information
• Slack is a notification hub
• Slack
• Slacklash
• Source--Is Your Company's Slack a Question-Ask Black Hole
• Source--Tedx,Let's make technology that helps us spend our time well Tristan Harris
• Tribal Knowlege
• information bleeding
• shy of public channels
• talk in context
• why slack has spammy notifications