A curated dose of ✍️ microcopy. Because tiny words matter!
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Cards against humanity’s website explaining why they’re suing Elon is pretty fucking good
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Lorem Ipsum can finally die:
lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2071
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I love this screenshot, if you look closely you can see the content designers losing the fight with the lawyers
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Twitter is just endless case studies in why to not fire your designers and copywriters at this point ☠️
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As design elements are created, they are often named after real-world metaphors. Over time those real-world metaphorical connections get lost. Megan Ng has taken the time to document the metaphors from common UI components.
uxdesign.cc/why-do-we-call-i…
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🎁 Free Books For Interface & UX Designers, on everything from accessibility and typography to management, IA and content strategy. No strings attached.
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ALT Cover of "Shape of Design", a wonderful book all around design, its main purpose and how to be a better designer.
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Want a free crit of your error messages?
Reply with one of yours and I’ll rewrite it and provide rational.
Just reply to this tweet ↓
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So many health apps are abysmal at women’s health. This is about as useful as saying the sun will rise in next 12 hours.
ALT Apple Health app notification text that says: Your period may start any day in the next 2 weeks.
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LoL @figma copywriters ... I see 👀 what you did there:
ALT A call out that says "Too much text? Tame it with truncat..."
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If you have to explain your design, it’s bad design.
ALT UI with accordions where only the tiny arrows are clickable
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Amazon has an incredible writing culture.
Here are 7 writing tips that anyone can use:
1. Use less words
2. Replace adjectives with data
3. Eliminate weasel words
4. "So what"
5. 4 answers
More in thread 👇
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If you’re running a tech/design-related event **anywhere in Europe** and would like some free Offscreen copies to give away (just pay for shipping), please get in touch! Minimum take is 50 copies. DMs are open.
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🏳️⚧️ We did it fam. Pronouns field in Contacts in iOS 17 beta. #WWDC23
ALT Screenshot of beta pronouns field
📡 Spent some time re-filing this radar for Apple to add a pronouns field to Contacts/iMessage because I lost the original #. Next up: emailing the vcard mailing list.
🍎 Apple folks: applefeedback://FB9996377
👀 Curious onlookers: openradar.appspot.com/radar?…
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I have a couple of free tickets for design conferences in Jun and Oct this year. The tix are for design-interested students of low-income homes, who would otherwise not have the option to attend. It's surprisingly difficult to find folks who fit this criteria. Need retweets 🙏🏾
