Is Slack becoming too similar to a corporate after party at a dive bar? Let me explain.

Christina Ou
4 min readApr 17, 2019

This blog title is by no means a reflection of my feelings for Slack itself. As a product designer, I love Slack. Communicating with GIPHs? Yes. Customized channels that cater to every niche? Yes. Integrations with other applications for a seamless experience? Yes. But despite all the great things about Slack as a product and a company, it feels like we’ve possibly opened a portal into the darkest and most perverse parts of humanity (slightly joking, but mostly serious).

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Christina Ou

Senior Product Designer @ Apollo.io. Passionate about innovative SaaS product design, cohesive user experiences, and research-driven decision making.