| name | interface-microcopy |
| description | Write interface microcopy for controls, forms, confirmations, permissions, loading, success, and destructive actions that makes intent and consequences clear at decision time. |
Interface Microcopy
Use when this procedure is the primary professional method needed for the assignment.
Procedure
- Confirm the decision or outcome this work must support, its scope, owner, constraints, and definition of success.
- Establish the evidence baseline using flow/state design, control semantics, permissions, error conditions, space constraints, and user terminology. Do not fill material gaps with assumptions when they can change the result.
- Start from user intent and system state, prefer concrete verbs, expose consequence before commitment, remove redundant instruction, and validate in layout/context.
- Exercise realistic edge, failure, transition, or exception cases that could invalidate the result; record unresolved uncertainty explicitly.
- Validate the output against the original outcome and any neighboring professional contracts so this skill does not silently absorb another specialist's authority.
- Record the resulting artifact, measurements, decisions, provenance, and handoff information needed for another owner to reproduce or continue the work.
Quality gate
A user can predict the action and consequence without relying on nearby documentation.