Microcopy — a fundamental aspect of UX writing — is a bit of text in an application or website that gives you feedback. It’s instrumental to error messages (what’s wrong and what to do next), product information (guiding you to the most important information first), and much more.
DailyUXWriting.com has a lovely prompt generator to develop best practices in UX writing and flex some writing chops — real microcopy would require research and contextual understanding, but this is a fun start.
(Character counts are without spaces)
“Clear skies ahead of you in Santa Monica. Have fun!” (42 characters)
“Look forward to summer heat in Oklahoma next week.” (42 characters)
“Kansas weather may be gloomy, but your trip won’t be.” (44 characters)
This text would be found inside the searchbar and would be replaced by your search query.
“Find prescription deals” (21 characters)
“Search drug deals” would also work, but the connotation is a little illicit, if not kind of humorous.
“Update your card to get going faster”
(37 characters)
“Your card’s expired! Let’s fix that.” (31 characters, more general)
“Please update your card for more taxi transit”
(38 characters + alliteration!)
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