Slack

Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025

Between my two internships and my current full-time role at Slack, I’ve been lucky enough to meet co-workers I can call my friends, be part of a historic IPO, and put a meaningful mark on a couple of pretty cool Slack features. Here are some things I’ve worked on, big and small, that I’m proud of.

AI Summaries in Catch Up

May 2025

Led the design and development of AI Summaries in Catch Up with the Slack AI team. Pinch a conversation card to reveal a quick summary, or tap the Summarize pill in busy channels. Inspired by Arc’s pinch gesture, we made it easier to get the highlights without leaving the flow of triaging. The launch drove 10x growth in mobile AI usage at Slack.

Plus Menu

Mar 2025

Brought over key learnings from the fluid channel tabs transition to the new Plus menu. The + button morphs seamlessly into a New Message action, reinforcing Slack’s core utility, while a progressive reveal introduces additional actions like starting Huddles, creating Channels, and managing VIPs. Also built the long-press-and-drag interaction to let users quickly message VIPs without lifting a finger.

Channel Tabs

Sep 2024

Horizontal tabs weren’t great for mobile, but the right alternative wasn’t clear—until we explored a drop-down concept. Built a polished prototype, rapidly iterated, and helped the team pivot to deliver a high-quality experience on a tight timeline. Crafted a smooth morphing transition, setting a new bar for transitions in Slack’s mobile apps.

Widgets

July 2024

Spearheaded the development and launch of the first ever widgets for Slack: a Catch Up widget to go straight to triaging, a Status widget to set and clear your status straight from your homescreen, and a Slack launcher to jump into Slack from your lockscreen. Leveraged interactive widgets to allow users to take actions directly from the widget and used animations to clearly indicate states changing.

Recap

May 2024

Wearing my Design Engineer hat, I joined the AI team at Slack and helped elevate the craft of the Recap experience on mobile. I worked on various details such as smoothly transitioning the header divider into a progress bar, a fluid expand and collapse interaction for topics, a progressive “marked read” animation in the card footer and a cute emoji shower easter egg at the very bottom.

Catch Up

Jan 2024

Information overload is a huge problem on Slack and the list-based channel list on mobile doesn’t work great for triaging. With a small and talented team, we made a prototype of Catch Up for Slack Day (a company-wide hackathon) and given the buzz internally, decided to productionize it and ship it to the world. The premise is simple: swipe right to mark a conversation as read and swipe left to leave it as unread. It turns out that the Tinder-inspired swiping UX works just as well for work messages as it does for clothes. It was so much fun playing a major role in the over year-long journey of this feature.

Pull to Smile :)

Jan 2024

Thought of and led the design and development of a cute easter egg in Slack. If you pull down the header far enough, we reveal a fun little message for you. Try it out and see for yourself.

Huddles for iPad

sept 2022

Led the development of a new, immersive, full-screen iPad experience for Huddles with video, thread and captions side-by-side, reactions, backgrounds, and lots of small design details sprinkled in the experience through gestures and micro-interactions.

Native Calendar Integration

Summer internship (2019)

Developed a native Google Calendar integration for the Slack mobile app