Review the work
Starts with a verb and names the value, not the UI object.
CONTENT PATTERNS / LIVE COPY
Words for systems that might be wrong.
Extracted from the running portfolio and interface lab. Each pattern reduces ambiguity at a specific moment.
Retrieving evidence · 2.4s
Names what is happening and exposes elapsed time.
Source attached · native case study
Keeps provenance beside the claim.
Published case-study claim; not independently verified.
States the exact boundary without legal padding.
Approve with label
Says what approval changes.
No matching command
Plain empty state; no blame.
Stop before action
Makes the safe boundary explicit.
Show the unresolved choice to a person with the evidence already gathered.
Preserves work and names the next move.
Nothing here is inferred about you beyond this link.
Explains personalization at the moment it matters.
WRITING RULES
Name the action, not the button.
Put the source beside the claim.
Say what is uncertain and what happens next.
Use a number only when its provenance is visible.
Never make the interface sound more capable than the system.
End when the user can act.