The task of texts in interfaces

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Learn about the requirements for texts for interfaces. Learn the basics of UX-copywriting. You will be able to refine your texts so that they are understandable to users and fit perfectly into the layout.

By text in the interface we mean headings, buttons, tooltips, error notifications, menus, form fields. Their main task – to help the user get what he came to the site or application.

If you often have to deal with writing texts for interfaces, you are a beginner UX-copywriter or UX-designer, who in addition to designing deals with the development of text content in the interface, start collecting a selection of different elements of interface with successful solutions in terms of content.

You don’t need to write thick sentences to report a common system error, for example. There is no clear limit on the amount of text on the page, you need to proceed from the task that it is supposed to solve. If it is a headline, it is desirable to fit it into one, at most – two lines. From here it will not be read, and the user can skip the block or leave the page.

There may be situations where you can not explain everything in one or two sentences. In this case, we can break up the text into paragraphs, to highlight particularly important points.