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Organizing Slack Workspaces

SeatGeek’s interview process for their product design internship involved a take-home design challenge. I was tasked with improving an app I admire and to not spend more than 4 hours on this task. I chose to redesign Slack. I received positive feedback on this design challenge and landed the internship!

  • Role
    product designer
  • Timeline
    4 hours
  • Tools
    Figma, FigJam
  • Type
    design challenge
WHY SLACK

Slack is a great tool to help you connect & communicate with others.

Slack’s design is also minimalistic, customizable and easy to use

PROBLEM

However, having a lot of Slack workspaces can be an overwhelming experience

having many workspaces can be overwhelming
workspaces for clubs, tech, old classes & most-used

I’m part of workspaces for various reasons, whether it be for classes, clubs or joining online communities

I have workspaces I don’t actively use, but I don’t want to sign out of. There are also some workspaces I use more than others

CURRENT SOLUTION

My only option is to sign out of the workspaces, however I don’t want to miss any updates!

signing out of a workspace
THE CHALLENGE

How might we improve the Slack workspace experience?

SOLUTION

Grouping Slack Workspaces: empowering users to organize and customize their experience

redesign
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After
A PROBLEM YET TO BE SOLVED

I made this case study in Fall 2022, and yet even in 2024 this is still a problem!

Reddit comments indicating that this still a problem

Screenshot from Reddit