🗅 Empty states: they’re par for the course for UX writers, right? In this article, veteran UX writer Boris Slesar sheds new light on what we might consider an empty state and how we might approach them.
Classic examples, dashboard opportunities, the error message/empty state combo, and more.
In this Hebrew example, "cancel" means "cancel" but it also means the opposite of "cancel." It’s confusing in any language!
Translation:
Are you sure you want to cancel the order?
Cancel (gray) | Confirm (green)
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You’d never know it by his writing, but English isn’t Boris Slesar’s first language. If you’re looking for a multilingual UX writer/content designer for your team or for freelance projects, look no further.
Drake and The Weeknd just dropped a viral hit called "Heart On My Sleeve." Except that they didn’t. Rather, someone called @ghostwriter made an AI track using "software trained on the musicians' voices." It’s
now being pulled from all the major streaming services after their publishers went into a tizzy.
