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WHAT’S INSIDE ✍
Issue #171 (Feb 16th, 2022)
UI copy components — the tool you’ve been waiting for
Writing/designing collaboration framework
Code-Switching in UX Copy
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ARTICLES 📰
📝 Where is your product’s copy stored? Figma comments? A thousand Google Docs files? Strewn across your desk on long-fallen sticky notes? You can do better.
A new feature from Frontitude lets you turn approved copy into reusable components—it’s the copy component library we’ve all been waiting for!
🙌 When writers and designers work together, great things happen. But collaboration is easier said than done. This deep-dive from Indeed has some excellent ideas and approaches.
🌐 When you sprechen beaucoup idiomas in one sentence, that’s called code-switching. Interesting for the multilingual, but could it ever be relevant in UX writing? Maybe so.
"Wait … what? Why are we talking about card games all of a sudden?" Whimsical, we love you (great product), but we’re filing this one under "maybe just spell it out next time."
Simple can be so effective—it’s something that Sr. Content Designer at Venmo/PayPal and UX Writing Academy alumna Lauren Reichman understands well. Striking use of color too.
