{"id":4516,"date":"2022-04-15T15:18:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T22:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2022-04-15T15:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T22:18:06","slug":"slack-software-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/2022\/slack-software-research","title":{"rendered":"“Slack” Software Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What is slack?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Slack is a messaging app for business that connects people to the information they need. By bringing people together to work as one unified team, Slack transforms the way organizations communicate.<\/p>Slack. \u201cWhat Is Slack?\u201d Slack Help Center<\/em>, slack.com\/help\/articles\/115004071768-What-is-Slack-. Accessed 15 Apr. 2022.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Software delivery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

You can use Slack in your web browser or mobile phone. You also have the option to download the desktop version to easily access, interact, and receive notifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

who is the founder?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Stewart Butterfield<\/strong>
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Stewart Butterfield<\/strong> is an entrepreneur, designer, and technology leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CEO and co-founder of Slack. He and his team launched the application in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-founded Flickr in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

He focuses on collaboration, communication, sharing, and storing information in the tech world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

who are the designers?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Anna Niess<\/strong>
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Anna leads as an individual contributor and coaches teams on customer improvement designs and new product features.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Zack Sultan<\/strong>
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Zack is a product designer in the messaging department and helps teams communicate effectively. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and most importantly: YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slack co-designs with their customers bringing them into every stage of the design process. They made the effort to work with designers, engineers, researchers, and product managers to create rough prototypes and make improvements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On March 18th 2020, the Slack team launched their new software update. Some of these changes include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Channel section<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting a new message with the compose button<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Customized and collapsible folders to organize channels, messages, and apps<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Taking action with shortcuts over context switching<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Searching channels, conversations, files, and organizations with a single navigation bar<\/strong> (moved to the top)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patents assigned to slack<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are many many patents assigned to Slack, so I’ve listed the first and the most recent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patent title:<\/strong> Method, apparatus, and computer program product for installing third party applications requiring variable host address identification in a group-based communication system<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patent number:<\/strong> 10592225<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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