Welcome to the Coding to be podcast, where we talk to people on their coding journey

and hopes of helping you on yours. I'm your host, Ron, and today we're talking about

user interfaces with senior engineer at Slack, Mina Mirkum. So it really helps in keeping a visual drift from happening

where your brand starts to look a little less cohesive

and a little less polish.

Mina talks about her time creating the Pantsuit user interface

for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign,

the importance of understanding the basics of UI and design,

and some of her favorite tools after this.

Thank you so much for being here.

Thank you so much for having me.

So tell us a little bit about what you do at Slack and what kind of projects you're involved in.

So as a senior engineer,

I work on what we call our customer acquisition team, which really is just kind of a fancy way of

saying I work on trying to get more people to use Slack, people who don't know what Slack is. I've

never seen it. My job, as an engineer, is to explain what Slack is via UI interfaces and entice them to start

using it.

So that means I work on our main marketing website, which is Slack.com.

I work on pretty much everything up until you hit the login or the create an account

or buy button.

And I build out landing pages,

like specific one-off landing pages. I build out entire experiences depending on the narrative flow that our content editors who come up with. I also work on Slackhq.com, which is our official

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