This post continues our series on App Home design and best practices for UX in Slack apps. The first post, focused on navigation, can be found here. Having awesome features in your Slack app is a great start, but unfortunately it takes more than useful tools to retain users. This post will explore some tried and true methods to improve user experience and increase engagement. …

This is the first post in a new series that will walk through App Home design and best practices for Slack apps, step by step. When designing a Slack app, you should strive to deliver an intuitive user experience. Slack’s App Home makes it easier than ever to create high-quality user interfaces by borrowing familiar elements from the web. For a good experience, users need to be able to navigate smoothly throughout your app. If…

There are numerous tools to schedule messages in Slack. In this post we’ll review some of the leading options. As teams become ever more distributed, the need to operate asynchronously continues to grow. Slack goes a long way toward solving inherent communication challenges for distributed teams. The ability to schedule messages in Slack takes things to the next level. Humans invented computers to do math (and other things) faster…

Integrating the tools that power your team’s productivity is critical for success and scalability. If your company is already using Slack and Smartsheet, configuring an integration to connect Slack to Smartsheet will save time, simplify repetitive workflows, and let your team focus on what matters. There are several ways to connect Slack to Smartsheet. Selecting the right option depends on how your team is using Smartsheet today and what your goals are going forward.

Technological innovation drives the evolution of products, which in turn contributes to the disruption and development of industries. This relentless march of progress continuously redefines the world in which we work, from employee roles and responsibilities to market offerings and unit costs. Product evolution is the crux of the equation: without a product, innovation lacks a vehicle for distribution, and without the disruptive influence of innovation vectorized in the form of products, industries continue on the path of least resistance.