# Complex, compact, celebratory: Bringing the Add to MPDM feature to life in Slack

DevFeed: [Complex, compact, celebratory: Bringing the Add to MPDM feature to life in Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/complex-compact-celebratory-bringing-the-add-to-mpdm-feature-to-life-in-slack-9125.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://slack.design/articles/complex-compact-celebratory-bringing-the-add-to-mpdm-feature-to-life-in-slack/>)

Author: lcarmen2

Published: 2023-05-18T12:41:17Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Slack Design](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/slack-design.md>)

Topics: [Slack](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/slack.md>), [Figma](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/figma.md>), [Mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile.md>)

Tags: [collaboration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/collaboration.md>), [design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/design.md>), [desktop](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/desktop.md>), [feature](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/feature.md>), [figma](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/figma.md>), [how-we-work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-we-work.md>), [project](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/project.md>), [teams](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/teams.md>)

## AI overview

Slack's design team describes creating the Add to MPDM feature, which lets people add participants to a direct message. The project involved designing the feature concurrently for desktop, mobile, and iPad, with organized Figma workflows to coordinate design and engineering work.

## Source excerpt

While Slack fields many requests, the creation of a feature to add people to a direct message was something our design team heard frequently. When we first started to roll up our sleeves and explore how to build this feature, it didn't seem that difficult. After all, you could already add people to channels. It [...] The post Complex, compact, celebratory: Bringing the Add to MPDM feature to life in Slack appeared first on Slack Design.