Designers & Developers: Copy and Content Guide

Designers and Developers, I’m planning to write a guide to creating meaningful error messages and instructions to use with any part of your work that a user sees or interacts with.

This isn’t a style guide for laying out code, or anything technical, but a helpful document to refer to when you are creating content that your users will read (however small or mundane that content might seem).

What would you like included in a document like this?

Examples might be:
guide to checkout copy,
login error messages,
more tricky aspects of grammar and punctuation,
naming conventions for web technology and processes,
common mistakes and pitfalls.

I’ve added some suggestions for you to vote for and I’d love to get some more ideas from you too.

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