UI copy and microcopy guidelines
Align button verbs, empty states, and error voice (apology vs direct vs playful boundaries); list banned terms and sensitive words; stay consistent with accessibility and design-system copy slots.
Case category · Product & UX
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This band supports product, design, and frontend collaboration: PRDs and acceptance, UI copy and empty/error states, visual and illustration briefs, and consistent brand tone across languages. Chain with frontend, UX, and documentation skills so agents draft and cross-check against your design system.
In the case hub it is Product & UX (#cat-design), complementing Creative & planning: this band emphasizes deliverable structure and standards; the ideation band leans toward divergent marketing-style drafts.
Buttons, empty states, errors, voice.
Context, scope, acceptance, dependencies.
Given/When/Then, boundaries, acceptance.
Sizes, style, brand, deliverables.
Terminology, tone, banned words, localization.
Align button verbs, empty states, and error voice (apology vs direct vs playful boundaries); list banned terms and sensitive words; stay consistent with accessibility and design-system copy slots.
Organize PRDs with context, goals, non-goals, scope, dependencies, risks, and acceptance; call out metrics and instrumentation needs so prioritization and scheduling stay grounded.
Use Given/When/Then or scenario tables for user value and edge conditions; state out-of-scope paths explicitly to reduce dev/test mismatch.
Specify canvas, safe areas, references, and brand color usage; list deliverable formats (SVG/PNG), motion level, and rights—so design and frontend can hand off cleanly.
Maintain glossaries and register preferences; handle gender-neutral phrasing and locale formats; note copy expansion per language so layouts do not assume English string lengths.