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Comment · 9 years ago
OP here. Iit's telling that so many people are commenting in this thread about how Slack isn't that bad because you can customize it to be less attention-grabbing. The fact remains that Slack is engineered to be attention-grabbing out of the box. Sure you can tweak it to make it less shouty, but Slack is still a product that is sold for money by a company. It's not in their interests to make it align with your existing workflow if they can upend that workflow entirely. No one's making money from you having a meeting or sending a well thought out email, so I think it's worth being cynical when considering paid alternatives.
I think it's also worth remembering that for hacker type folks like us, customizing software is the norm. But default settings are default for a reason, and they will inevitably end up being the most commonly used. When everyone else in your company expects you to use Slack they way do, i.e. for 8 hours a day with instantaneous reply times, then it becomes hard to push against that and eventually it becomes the status quo
Comment · 9 years ago
OP here. I think the problem is that when tools like Slack are engineered in such a way as to make people dependent on their product, it's unfair to expect users to accept all the responsibility of mitigating against that. Software companies aren't using organizational productivity as a benchmark for their success, just usage statistics. So no, Slack doesn't enforce a single way of working, but it is engineered to consume as much of people's time as possible, for better or worse.
Jason Fried wrote his in his (much more comprehensive) post about group chat pros/cons:
"It’s common in the software industry to blame the users. It’s the user’s fault. They don’t know how to use it. They’re using it wrong. They need to do this or do that. But the reality is that tools encourage specific behaviors. A product is a series of design decisions with a specific outcome in mind. Yes, you can use tools as they weren’t intended, but most people follow the patterns suggested by the design. And so in the end, if people are exhausted and feeling unable to keep up, it’s the tool’s fault, not the user’s fault. If the design leads to stress, it’s a bad design."
(https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-74...)
Comment · 10 years ago
AEM Developer, Mid-level to Sr | New York, NY | Contract | Onsite
We're Big Human, a reputable digital product design studio near Union Square in New York.
We are looking for a talented AEM developer to lead a major project for a well-known international media client. The successful candidate will be working from our office as part of a small, dedicated team for a 4-6 month engagement.
The successful applicant will work closely with other members of our dev team (including other AEM developers) to create and configure AEM templates and components, help design an architecture solution to support multiple sites and provide support and troubleshooting during testing.
Other requirements:
- Located in NYC or willing to relocate - 3+ years of development experience using AEM / CQ - Experience with AEM v6.1 Touch UI - Java-based skill-set with extremely thorough understanding of AEM building blocks, templates, custom components, dialogs, widgets, custom workflows, Digital Asset Management (DAM) customization, and development / deployment processes - Experience designing and building RESTful APIs - Ability to translate marketing needs into AEM specific recommendations & solutions - Knowledge or desire to learn Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target - Has worked in an agile environment - Need to work with onsite team members and offshore team members to define, elaborate, and develop features and requirements
Big Pluses:
- Front end experience - Understanding of other Adobe cloud services that can be implemented with AEM - SEO knowledge - Client-facing communication skills
To apply please email jobs[at]bighuman.com
Comment · 10 years ago
AEM Developer, Mid-level to Sr | New York, NY | Contract | Onsite
We're Big Human, a reputable digital product design studio in New York. We’re looking for an engineer who can lead all AEM development projects for our team.
The job would require implementing and managing each project (including 3rd party integrations), building new AEM websites, and working closely with internal product development. You would coordinate with other lead members of our dev team to implement and integrate best practices of AEM usage, as well as provide support and troubleshooting during testing. Ideally you would have suggestions for how to enhance existing business applications using Adobe, and are able to identify requirements early-on during scoping & discovery phase of a project.
Our client for this project has a strict NDA; sorry we can’t tell you more! We’ll spill the beans during the application process.
Other requirements:
- Java-based skill-set with extremely thorough understanding of AEM building blocks, templates, components, dialogs, widgets, and development / deployment processes - Experience designing and building RESTful APIs - 3+ years of development experience using AEM / CQ - Experience with AEM v6.1 Touch UI - Ability to translate marketing needs into AEM specific recommendations & solutions - Can leverage AEM to solve cross-departmental challenges - Knowledge or desire to learn Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target
Big Pluses:
- AEM 6 Architect Certification - Complete understanding of other Adobe cloud services that can be implemented with AEM - SEO knowledge - Desire to help drive the development team forward - Client-facing communication skills
To apply, please email Caitlin at [email protected]