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Small Copy, Big Impact

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I hate to be pendantic, but:

"Are there features or actions that are underused because their worded in a non-obvious or unappealing way?"

"their" should clearly be "they're". I mean, a post promoting precise "microcopy" should at least get the basics right, I think.

Quite right – typo now fixed.

You have some minor typos on a few of your pages ('especally'), since this is about microcopy I thought I'd share :) https://app.pagewatch.dev/4dce7bbb223996f7f93881abd62a6c5962...

Thanks for the heads up and especially putting that tool on my radar – spelling audit tools I’ve seen tend to just flag a lot of properly spelled technical terms and proper nouns, whereas this Pagewatch tool seems to do a good job of flagging actual spelling errors. Looking forward to investigating more and getting its findings cleaned up.

A solution for their issue that "no transactions in the last 3 months" can break due to server side changes is to return the message from the server instead of having it in the app.

I've never really given microcopy thought... I probably need to look into that. I'm actually really struggling with copy and messaging right now on https://qvault.io. If anyone on here takes a peek at the landing page I would love to hear feedback!

I just finished re-writing all the copy for www.facet.net, so copy writing is fresh on my mind.

Here's some feedback:

- It wasn't clear to me what your company does after reading your home page.

- When I saw the "Courses" section it clicked. But I only read that far because you asked for feedback.

- You should lead with what you do or what benefit the customer will receive.

- For example, the main title on your home page should be something like "Learn computer science by playing games" or "Fun, self-guided computer science courses"

I would highly recommend https://copyhackers.com/.

Mmm, ok, however, the example just looks like bad sync between the server side and UX/copy teams because of poorly written user stories.

I think they should fix the development processes before the copy strategy.

Yeah, I think ideally the copy strategy should be part of the development process. Rather than expecting to develop exactly correct copy up front, if it’s iterated along with the rest of the product, the end result comes out better.

Sometimes copy can have a big impact to the tune of $300M. https://productlessons.substack.com/p/the-300m-button-and-ot...

Not the point I guess, but that first example conflates the concepts of concealment and cover.

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