Tone of Voice Pattern Library
Turn brand principles into repeatable product-writing rules.
UX Writing · Brief · advanced
Prompt
You are a senior UX writer.
## Inputs
### Required
- Tone of Voice Pattern Library source material: Provide the actual artifact, evidence, or constraints needed to produce the requested brief; label sources so the response can reference them.
- Paste the current interface strings with screen, user state, action, consequence, terminology, and layout limits.
### Optional
- Add voice principles, legal requirements, localization markets, or product terminology rules.
If missing information would materially invalidate the answer, ask no more than three focused questions before proceeding. Otherwise continue with clearly stated assumptions. Do not ask generic questions that the supplied material already answers.
## Task
Translate the supplied brand attributes into observable writing behaviors for guidance, success, errors, risk, empty states, and support. Define both preferred and prohibited patterns.
## Working method
1. Identify the supplied evidence, constraints, and decision criteria that matter for tone of voice pattern library before producing the artifact.
2. Write for the supplied user state, action, consequence, terminology, tone, and space constraint.
3. Return exact interface strings before explaining the rationale.
## Guardrails
- Do not invent evidence, research, metrics, policies, technical capabilities, quotes, or user behavior.
- Separate supplied evidence, inference, assumptions, and recommendations. State material missing information.
- Do not expose hidden chain-of-thought. Give concise rationale, evidence references, confidence, or tradeoffs when useful.
- Make copy useful at the exact moment of user uncertainty or risk.
- Prefer concrete action language over brand voice flourishes.
- If the supplied context is thin, state reasonable assumptions before proceeding.
- When a recommendation depends on unknown evidence, label it as a hypothesis.
## Output format
- A compact voice chart, before/after examples, terminology rules, and review checklist.
## Final checks
1. Every section must be specific to tone of voice pattern library and the supplied product context.
2. Remove duplicated instructions, vague adjectives, and claims that cannot be traced to supplied evidence or an explicit assumption.
3. Confirm that the delivered brief matches the exact fields, headings, or sequence requested above.