It sounds like a significant improvement for our UX! Where do we start? How does App Home tab work Even if our users do not know how to use slash commands, they’ll be able to request leaves directly from Slack by clicking the button in the Home tab. We can use an App Home and Block Kit to show all critical information from Vacation Tracker to our users just in time. The user can reach the App Home from the conversation list within Slack or by clicking on the app’s name in messages.Īn App Home is dynamic. This toolkit is essential because it brought a better way to manage permissions, Block Kit, a new Slack UI framework, and - App Home tab!Īn App Home is a private, one-to-one space shared by the user and the app.

Making Slack integrations painless and scalableĪt the end of 2019, Slack introduced the Slack app toolkit.

Fortunately, someone at Slack thought the same.

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could have a place in Slack where users can find everything they need to know about Vacation Tracker? Something like a simple dashboard. Was it slash (“/”) vacation, hashtag vacation, or some other weird character? However, not all of our users know how to use slash commands. Managing your leave days is just one Slack command away. Our product was better than ever as one of our latest feedbacks says it’s super easy to use, much better than submitting paper forms. Besides that, Slack improved its permission scopes, which was very important for Vacation Tracker, because we tried to know just a few most basic things about our users. They added a date picker, modals, input fields, and many other useful UI elements. Slack improved a lot in the last two years. It’s a leave-tracking app, who works during the weekends anyway? Many people, as we learned quickly. No weekends? The limit was five buttons in a row. We improvised a calendar using simple buttons. The first version of our product was similar to the following image. Not all of them provided the best user experience for our users, but they were way better than our biggest competitor – the big bad spreadsheet. Luckily, a limited number of interactive elements combined with a grain of imagination lead to countless creative ideas. You could make your integration interactive by mixing buttons and dropdowns. When we built the first version of Vacation Tracker, UI for Slack integrations was very limited.

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