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Not to sound old and complainey... why the hell are we on an endless "Redesign the UI" hype cycle? At the end of the day, these are tools to accomplish a missio

Not to sound old and complainey... why the hell are we on an endless "Redesign the UI" hype cycle? At the end of the day, these are tools to accomplish a mission and get actual work done, not a piece of art deco for your fkin apartment.

guessmyname 3y ago
People looking for a promotion: Executives, Design Directors, Managers, UI/UX Designers, and even engineers if back-end changes are involved.
zdragnar 3y ago
The answer is in the article: their understanding is that the current interface feels chaotic to users, and this new interface will "tame the chaos" and help you focus. Personally, I suspect it will benefit one type of user (DMs across multiple slack organizations) and hurt others (one workspace, many team channels with focused topics in each). This is where people get upset with redesigns- everything for everyone is suboptimal for everyone, but there's a good chance nothing else is better... that doesn't stop them from trying, though. I'm in the latter, and from a very brief glance at the new screenshots, I hate it. I'll reserve actual judgement until I have to use it, but I'm not optimistic that I'm the target audience for the new design.
- pavel_lishin 3y ago
  One nice thing is that the "activity" tab finally separates reactions and mentions; it's wild that in the current state, they're lumped together, making the tab wildly useless. Everything else looks worse - like you said, optimized for people in multiple Slacks who need to stay on top of all of them. I'm in multiple personal slacks, and I do not want them mixed in any way. I'm in one work slack, so this new redesign is probably bad for me. This definitely feels like the old WYSIWYG move - optimizing for product managers, who coincidentally enough have a heavier hand in deciding how Slack itself changes than individual contributor users.
bityard 3y ago
It's the software equivalent of looking busy at work.
whalesalad 3y ago
humans gotta go into work and do something every day. can't just sit back and stare at it.

guessmyname 3y ago

People looking for a promotion: Executives, Design Directors, Managers, UI/UX Designers, and even engineers if back-end changes are involved.

zdragnar 3y ago

The answer is in the article: their understanding is that the current interface feels chaotic to users, and this new interface will "tame the chaos" and help you focus. Personally, I suspect it will benefit one type of user (DMs across multiple slack organizations) and hurt others (one workspace, many team channels with focused topics in each). This is where people get upset with redesigns- everything for everyone is suboptimal for everyone, but there's a good chance nothing else is better... that doesn't stop them from trying, though. I'm in the latter, and from a very brief glance at the new screenshots, I hate it. I'll reserve actual judgement until I have to use it, but I'm not optimistic that I'm the target audience for the new design.

pavel_lishin 3y ago
One nice thing is that the "activity" tab finally separates reactions and mentions; it's wild that in the current state, they're lumped together, making the tab wildly useless. Everything else looks worse - like you said, optimized for people in multiple Slacks who need to stay on top of all of them. I'm in multiple personal slacks, and I do not want them mixed in any way. I'm in one work slack, so this new redesign is probably bad for me. This definitely feels like the old WYSIWYG move - optimizing for product managers, who coincidentally enough have a heavier hand in deciding how Slack itself changes than individual contributor users.

bityard 3y ago

It's the software equivalent of looking busy at work.

whalesalad 3y ago

humans gotta go into work and do something every day. can't just sit back and stare at it.