Product surface copy
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Frontend design skill pack for AI coding agents: briefs, design systems, audits, motion, copy, and ship checks.
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Write and revise concise product interface copy. Use when Codex needs to improve button labels, navigation, form helper text, empty states, loading states, error messages, success messages, onboarding steps, settings descriptions, or UX microcopy inside an app or website.
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Product Surface Copy
Goal
Make interface text useful under pressure. The copy should help users decide, act, recover, and trust what happened.
Workflow
- Identify the user's state: exploring, deciding, entering data, waiting, recovering, confirming, or managing.
- Rewrite labels around the action or object, not internal implementation language.
- Keep CTAs specific and short.
- Pair errors with recovery steps.
- Replace feature explanations with visible next actions in empty states.
- Check text fit in buttons, tabs, badges, cards, sidebars, and mobile widths.
Voice Rules
- Use concrete verbs.
- Prefer one clear sentence over a clever phrase.
- Remove hype unless the surface is explicitly marketing.
- Do not blame the user.
- Avoid vague success text like "Done" when the object can be named.
- Keep technical terms only when the audience expects them.
Output Shape
When revising copy, return:
- Current issue.
- Replacement copy.
- Why it works.
- Layout risk, if the copy may overflow.
Resources
- Read
references/copy-patterns.mdfor common UI copy patterns.