Building Dark Mode on Desktop
More than just CSS, dark mode represents a new way of thinking about color and styles at Slack.
How Slack Built Shared Channels
Building shared channels challenged Slack’s fundamental assumption that the workspace is the atomic unit of partitioning customer data.
The Gradual Design System: How We Built Slack Kit
A group of engineers, designers, and writers began to centralize and standardize components. We named it Slack Kit.
Interning on Slack’s Product Security Team
Detecting vulnerabilities in Javascript/npm packages with daily scans
Service Workers at Slack: Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support
Using a CDN-cached HTML file, a persisted Redux store, and a Service Worker, we reduced Slack boot time by more than 50%.
PanModal: Better support for thumb accessibility on Slack mobile
What does it mean to design for thumbs?
Disasterpiece Theater: Slack’s process for approachable Chaos Engineering
Slack is a large and complex piece of software that’s been added to and changed many times over the last five years. We added features, grew to 10,000…
When a rewrite isn’t: rebuilding Slack on the desktop
A new version of Slack is rolling out for our desktop customers, built from the ground up to be faster, more efficient, and easier to work on.