July 2025
Beginner to intermediate
280 pages
7h 4m
English
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Chapter 4 Apply UX Text Patterns
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Apply UX Text Patterns
Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.
—Doug Dillon, writer
A design pattern is a reusable, common solution to a design problem. In this chapter, you’ll see UX text patterns for 11 common interactions. These are arranged like a reference book, rather than a “read straight through” book. They are intended for you to use while you start drafting or editing UX text, or for you to embed within a design system for reference whenever you use a particular component.
The UX text patterns in this chapter are supported by the proprietary research I conducted and consumed at Microsoft, Google, and OfferUp while creating experiences for people to use at work and at play. All of that research was conducted in English and doesn’t apply across all languages! I am hopeful that more research will be conducted and shared for other languages and cultures, but I don’t have that information.
The goal of this set of patterns is to establish an easy, recognizable starting place to write consistently high-quality text. They are a tool to quickly and scalably write new UX text based on text patterns that have been successful in the past.
Like other good design patterns, these patterns don’t prescribe the words to use. They also shouldn’t create the impression that the pattern is necessary to solve any particular problem; sometimes, UX text isn’t the appropriate solution at all.
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