IDEO hosted Erika Anderson who runs Storytell.ai, a start-up focusing on accelerating and incoporating the principles of Humane technology into our lives to simplify and clarify the noise that our digital tools introduce. Erika began by highlighting the principles: Empowering Users, Fostering Accountability, Enhancing Human Connection, and Minimizing Harm. The context behind Erika's push for Human Technology was a matrix of some of the ways technology has made our lives measurably worse. Things like the erosion of attention, well-being, and autonomy; the amplification of misinformation & social division; exploitation of privacy and the manipulation of users.  The brainstorm was geared to get us thinking about how to apply these principles to our much-maligned, much-used work communication platform, Slack. Necessary for the modern hybrid workplace, Slack has also been the cause of a significant source of stress. Many of the things we associate with the drawbacks of a modern working environment -- the need to always be available, the stilted communication protocols, the overwhelming flood of messages -- are part of the Slack experience. So, we thought of ways to fix it. Applying Erika's Humane Design principles we reimagined the workplace communication experience to heighten a sense of togetherness and ease of collaboration, while reducing those elements that contributed to a heightened sense of anxiety and stress. We thought of how we moments of delight, like incoporating a BeReal-esque time prompt for your team to share something fun, while also thinking through ways AI might help negotiate and facilitate discussions within channels and sense-make alongside us. Erika mocked up our concepts and gave them back to us, painting a path forward that involves less stress-checking your phone at midnight, and more rituals that lead to balanced and joyful collaboration.