To enable emojis, just look at the emoji picker within the Slack app. To make things more organized, Slack will tabulate all the different types of emoji being used.

Here’s a possible use case: you ask your team whether they want to go to MobileBeat next week ( tickets still available) and instead of posting “I’m in” or “can’t wait”, they can respond with emojis such as thumbs up, hands raised, etc. Since that time, his team has been “refining the details and making sure we fully understood the social implications of what is a pretty core change to the Slack messaging experience.” Simon Vallee, Slack’s product manager on team files, says they got the idea for use of emoji a while back, but started exploring it more seriously about six months ago. So this is where emojis come into play: Emoji reactions say a lot more than a simple acknowledgement and users can craft the message to whatever they want.

Yes, there’s a star feature adjacent to each message, but Slack says it was intended to “create personal reminders and quick to-do lists.” Slack tells us that it was looking at ways for people to “fave” or “like” messages, but the team wanted to come up with something original.

Slack emoji packs