Getting to know your colleagues can be tricky when working remotely, but Slack is adding a handful of new features to its user profiles that should make things a little more fluid. <\/p>\n

New features include the option to add name pronunciation guides (either by recording audio or adding phonetic spelling); a new pop-up user card UI that appears when you hover your mouse over someone\u2019s name; and reorganized fields in user profiles, which have now been streamlined to three modules: Contact Info, People (where you sit in your company\u2019s org chart), and About Me (customizable with things like languages spoken, start date, etc). <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what that new UI looks like, with the full user profile card on the left and the pop-up card on the right: <\/p>\n