The New Collaboration UI?

November 21, 2014

Remember when every software product was designed to look like Facebook?

Now it appears a new "common UI" being used in many of the new collaboration tools.  

Here's a quick UI comparison of Slack, Glip, Unify Circuit and Cisco Project Squared.

Alan Lepofsky
Alan Lepofsky
Vice President & Principal Analyst Constellation Research
Alan Lepofsky - VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research. With almost two decades of experience in the collaboration software industry, Lepofsky helps organizations improve the way their employees work together to get their jobs done. Lepofsky’s primary research area The Future of Work, focuses on: integrating collaboration and business processes (Purposeful Collaboration), structuring work via Social Task Management, leveraging analytics and digital assistants to work more productively, the strategic impact of mobile computing on business transformation, and measuring workforce culture based on Digital Proficiency instead of age. Twitter: @alanlepo<br>LinkedIn:&nbsp;https://ca.linkedin.com/in/alanlepo &nbsp; &nbsp; , Title:&nbsp;Big IdeasIntelligent Collaboration: The… Read more
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November 21, 2014
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