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Seamlessly pull in latest copy edits to development using our API/CLI and SDKs
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Automatically integrate localized copy with both design and development
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The Ditto Blog
Ellie from Ditto
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September 27, 2024
Editorial
How Content Designers Can Own Their Influence (With the Right System)
Our friends over at UX Content Collective released a new report outlining the biggest challenges facing UX content experts — straight from the mouths of content experts themselves. So we're breaking down some of the biggest struggles facing UX writers and content designers today — and how Ditto can help you overcome them.
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Ellie from Ditto
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September 17, 2024
Editorial
Why Getting Everyone’s Input on Product Copy Can Seriously Boost Your Business
Product copy—the crucial words that describe your product, guide users, and tell your brand’s story—is often simultaneously important to everyone, and owned by no one. Getting all these opinions might sound like a recipe for chaos. But with the right system, this collaboration can lead to seriously better outcomes for your business.
Ellie from Ditto
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September 16, 2024
Editorial
The Key Elements of a Product Text System
When you're building a product, the words you use are just as important as the code you write or the design you create. Your product text—everything from button labels to error messages—is a crucial part of the user experience. So how do you manage all that text in a way that’s scalable, consistent, and efficient? The answer lies in building a system around your product text.
The Ditto Team
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September 2, 2024
Product
August Product Spotlight: Collaboration Workflows in Ditto
Creating great product text is a team effort. It involves input from product managers, marketers, engineers, designers, and even legal and compliance teams. At first glance, getting all these opinions might sound like a recipe for chaos. But with the right system, this collaboration can lead to seriously better outcomes for your business. This month, we're digging into some of Ditto’s built-in collaboration features that you can start using today to build a seamless review process.
The Ditto Team
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July 31, 2024
Product
What's new in July: Ditto Product Updates
From new AI capabilities, to universal search, to plugin speed improvements, the team’s been busy this month. Check out what we've been building for you over at Ditto.
Ellie from Ditto
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July 22, 2024
Editorial
8 tips to write better product content
Product text is one of the most under-leveraged parts of your user’s experience, but it doesn’t have to be. By building an intentional, systemized approach to the words in your product, you can ship better product text that supports, educates, and delights your users. If you want to start writing better product content, check out these 8 things you can start doing today to help you get there.
Jessica Ouyang
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June 2, 2024
Product
The All-In-One Guide to Localizing with Ditto
Whether you want to manage all of your translations in Ditto or integrate with a TMS like Lokalise or Phrase, Ditto helps for a seamless localization process.
Ditto and the Staffbase Team
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May 30, 2024
Case Studies
How Staffbase built a cross-team system to draft, translate, and ship product text faster, with Ditto
Ditto has helped to transform how Staffbase centralizes, reviews, and ships text for their global product suite, leading to improved efficiency, consistency, and collaboration across teams.
The Ditto Team
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May 8, 2024
Case Studies
Dogfooding Ditto: How our own engineering team launched a full UI redesign 30% faster, by using Ditto
In Q1, the team set out to do a large redesign of Ditto, with a lot of inputs across teams: from product, to engineering, to marketing, to leadership, everyone had an opinion to share on the refreshed product copy. So how did the team manage this big, cross-functional UX redesign? With Ditto, of course!
Ditto and the Uber Carshare team
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May 8, 2024
Case Studies
How Uber Carshare used Ditto to drive global expansion (with the same lean team)
Uber Carshare used Ditto to localize and manage copy for 2 new international markets, and built an entirely new way to collaborate between content design and engineering teams.
Ditto Product Team
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April 24, 2024
Product
Introducing Ditto's Newest UI Refresh: Get started, and get going, faster.
Ditto has a new UI! Read about the changes to Ditto's welcome experience, navigation, developer tools, and more. Take advantage of these new tools to help your whole team move faster in Ditto, and find the most valuable actions with the click of a button.
Ditto and the Blip Team
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January 4, 2024
Case Studies
How Blip uses Ditto to write, edit, proofread, and translate 48% faster
Blip’s team of 1500+ employees (over 60 of which are designers) work together on a product that spans a global customer base: over 32 countries in 3 different languages. After a year of using Ditto, the Blip team found that Ditto allowed them to write, proofread, and translate 48% faster compared to their previous process.
Jessica Ouyang
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November 9, 2023
Engineering
Introducing Webhooks: Build custom, automated workflows
Today, we’re excited to introduce webhooks to our developer tooling! Webhooks allow developers to get notified about actions in Ditto in real-time, allowing them to build workflows that automatically get triggered by changes in Ditto.
Ditto and the Zero Team
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November 7, 2023
Case Studies
How Zero scaled content personalization with Ditto
Zero, a mobile health app with over 1M monthly active members, used Ditto to launch and scale their daily coaching feature — driving a 43% increase in user app sessions. With Ditto, the team is now able to ship content updates daily, rather than bi-weekly or quarterly.
Jessica Ouyang
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November 1, 2023
Engineering
Introducing Ditto’s New Developer Docs
Today, we’ve released our new developer docs. 🎉 In addition to expanded functionality, our new dev docs tackle explaining both how Ditto works in the big picture and how to solve specific use-cases with concrete examples.
Rachel Wolff
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October 30, 2023
Editorial
Streamlining localization across design and content
In this guest post, the Lokalise team dives into tips on how to streamline localization efforts across design and content for a seamless and efficient process.
Jessica Ouyang
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September 5, 2023
Engineering
What’s New in Ditto CLI v4.0.0
Last week, we released v4.0.0 of our CLI, with a focus on flexibility. In this blog post, we showcase two key CLI features new to this version — source-specific config flags and component folder-specific string files — and how you can utilize them:
Ashley Newman
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July 12, 2023
Engineering
Practice Safe Text: Solving Hardcoded Strings
In the complex world of front-end development, there are many challenges in managing text via the code. We examine "unsafe text", provide a solution using Ditto, and outline its benefits and integration steps.
Jessica Ouyang
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July 6, 2023
Editorial
How to Build a Copy Review and Handoff Workflow
There are lots of stages that copy goes through — and review is needed at every single one. Today, we’ll be exploring how your team can build a scalable workflow that helps get the right text to the right place, faster.
Jolena Ma
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May 25, 2023
Product
Introducing Spreadsheet Import in Ditto
We're excited to announce support for importing spreadsheets into Ditto! Content and metadata imported from CSV files will get added to Ditto so that it can be worked on and synced alongside all other content.
Jessica Ouyang
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May 23, 2023
Editorial
Tackling your first content design system
It can often be intimidating to start building a content design system from scratch. After working with hundreds of teams to get up and running, we’ve organized a guide on what we’ve seen work best for teams looking to building with text components.
Ashley Newman
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May 2, 2023
Engineering
We built a VS Code extension to streamline dogfooding at Ditto
Our team developed a VS Code extension that automates the replacement of hardcoded strings with Ditto component IDs. We've released it in beta so that other teams can try it as well.
Ditto and the OwnUp Team
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April 20, 2023
Case Studies
How OwnUp saves 6,500+ hours per year with Ditto
Own Up, a mortgage fintech company with over 10,000 customers, uses Ditto to manage text across writers, designers, and developers — saving them 6500+ hours per year.
Jolena Ma
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April 18, 2023
Product
Introducing Templates in Ditto — speed up your design process
Today, we’re excited to be announcing formal support for content templates in Ditto! With templates, teams can formalize common content patterns and speed up the writing of content and the design process as a whole.
Jessica Ouyang
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March 23, 2023
Product
Introducing New Variable Types: Lists & Maps
Today, we're excited to announce the launch of two new variable types in Ditto: lists and maps! We hope this helps teams interpolate more structured content for dynamic strings.
Jolena Ma
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March 22, 2023
Product
Ditto Achieves SOC 2 Certification
As a product that helps other teams build their products, it’s always been a top priority to ensure that your data is stored safely and securely. Today, we’re proud to make this commitment to security official and announce that Ditto has successfully achieved SOC 2 certification!
Jolena Ma
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March 20, 2023
Product
Introducing Design View — edit copy with full visual context
Today, we’re excited to announce a feature that takes things one step further in closing the gap between copy and design: Design View in the web app! 🥳
Jessica Ouyang
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February 15, 2023
Product
Ditto Integrates with Slack
We’re excited to introduce Ditto’s Slack integration, which allows teams to connect projects and your component library directly to channels in your Slack workspace to receive notifications regarding Ditto activity.
Jonathon Colman
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January 31, 2023
Editorial
How to break into content design without spending any money
From beginner to intermediate to advanced, Jonathon Colman, who leads content design at Hubspot, shares tips and resources to transition into the field without spending money.
Jessica Ouyang
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January 25, 2023
Product
Managing String IDs in Development
We’re excited to introduce the ability to configure how IDs for strings get generated in your Ditto workspace — including the ability to specify casing, delimiters, regexes, and automatic update rules.
Ditto and Yael Ben-David
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January 19, 2023
Editorial
A framework for maximizing the business value of product copy with Yael Ben-David
We sat down with Yael Ben-David, author of The Business of UX Writing, to discuss how teams can utilize the words in their product to maximize their own business outcomes, as well as a framework for that process.
Jolena Ma
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January 18, 2023
Product
Introducing: Ditto Support for Figma Branching
Today, we’re excited to announce Ditto’s new-and-improved integration with Figma branching! Teams in Ditto that are using Figma branching will now have access to version control that’s built for copy, enabling teams of any size — whether 2 or 200 — to maintain a centralized source of copy truth.
Jessica Ouyang
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January 16, 2023
Editorial
Ditto's 2022 Rewind
In 2022, we got to see customers truly embed Ditto into their workflows at scale, saving time for everyone from writers to designers to developers. We rounded up a few of our metrics from 2022 that capture just what that usage looks like.
Ditto and Kristina Halvorson
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December 13, 2022
Editorial
Content, company culture, and community with Kristina Halvorson
The practice of content design has led to everything from shifts in company culture to the emergence of communities of thousands dedicated to the discipline. We discuss all of these topics with Kristina Halvorson, who has seen the content design space take shape over the past 15 years as the CEO of Brain Traffic.
Ditto and Sophie Tahran
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December 1, 2022
Editorial
Advocating for the value of content design with Sophie Tahran
We sat down to chat with Sophie Tahran, Director of Content Design at Condé Nast, about everything from advocating for the value of content design to how she sees the field evolving over the next few years.
Jessica Ouyang
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November 30, 2022
Engineering
How to manage strings across multiple platforms
Manually maintaining string files can be time-intensive and error-prone, especially when handling formats across multiple platforms. With Ditto's developer integrations, teams can manage their strings in multiple formats — web, Android, and iOS — without ever manually creating or editing a string file.
Jessica Ouyang
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October 24, 2022
Product
Ditto Integrates with Grammarly
Ditto now supports Grammarly natively — in both our web app and our Figma plugin — to correct misspellings, grammar mistakes, and improve writing clarity.
Jessica Ouyang
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October 20, 2022
Product
Introducing Rich Text: Bold, Italics, and Underline
Today, we’re rolling out rich text support — meaning you can now bold, underline, and italicize any text stored in Ditto. In this blog post, we dive under-the-hood on how we built this feature.
Ditto
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September 24, 2022
Editorial
Words as Design: Systemizing Product Copy
The process of managing product text is often difficult across so many stakeholders and sources — despite its importance in the role of building product. In this post, we look forward to what it means to systemize text and build infrastructure for text.
Ditto and the Stash Team
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August 11, 2022
Case Studies
How Stash saves 12,000+ hours per year and ships 20% faster with Ditto
Stash, an investing and banking app with more than 2 million members, uses Ditto to manage all of the strings in their product — maintaining text across both design files and web, iOS, and Android platforms.
Jordan Bowman
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March 15, 2022
Editorial
5 Steps for Building a Content Design System
Jordan of UX Tools joins us to share his own experiences working with text as a designer and 5 steps to building a content system as a team.
Jolena Ma
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December 10, 2021
Product
Introducing Plurals — handle plurals in your UI copy
Today, we're excited to launch pluralization support in Ditto, to enable teams to manage plurals more easily and ensure users always see the right copy.
Jessica Ouyang
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November 17, 2021
Product
Introducing Variables — interpolate dynamic values and links into your text
Today, we're excited to launch Variables in Ditto, which enables teams to easily interpolate dynamic values and links into product text.
Jessica Ouyang
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September 15, 2021
Engineering
A Developer's Quick Guide to Integrating Ditto
From syncing edits to existing strings to componentizing text and integrating with localization tools, we wanted to share a quick guide for developers on getting started with Ditto.
Jolena Ma
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September 8, 2021
Product
Introducing Component Suggestions — automatically identify and componentize repeated text
We're excited to launch Component Suggestions, which intelligently suggest Ditto components to create and reuse based on text in your projects.
Jessica Ouyang
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August 13, 2021
Editorial
How teams are building their content systems in Ditto
One of the most common questions we get asked by teams getting started is how others are using, organizing, and thinking about their components. We did a deep dive into how teams are currently building their component libraries in Ditto.
Jordin Gardner, Jolena Ma
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August 4, 2021
Product
How we redesigned multi-selection in Ditto
We recently launched keyboard shortcuts to make selecting multiple pieces of text in Ditto simpler and faster. In this deep-dive, we share a look at what it took to build and ship this feature.
Jessica Ouyang
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May 19, 2021
Product
Introducing Variants — for localization, user segments, and explorations
Today, we're excited to launch Variants in Ditto, which allow teams to write and preview text variations for frames in their projects.
Xavier Agostini
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May 12, 2021
Engineering
How to build Figma plugins 10x faster
Learn the secret behind how we develop and debug Figma plugins in real-time, and how you can too.
Jessica Ouyang
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April 28, 2021
Product
Integrating your team's content system with designs
Ditto's component suggestions automatically surfaces components from your library most similar to text in a design file.
Jolena Ma
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April 21, 2021
Engineering
Building Ditto's Figma plugin
Since launching our plugin in January 2020, it's been used by thousands of people to manage text in their mockups. In this post, we share our approach to building Ditto's Figma plugin and do a deep dive into how it works under-the-hood.
Jessica Ouyang
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March 15, 2021
Product
Introducing Ditto's API and Developer Integrations
We're excited to launch our API and developer integrations, which allow engineers to fetch up-to-date copy directly into development. This means a single source of truth for product text, from design all the way to production.
Jolena Ma
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February 4, 2021
Editorial
What we've learned from 200+ teams on building a copy collaboration workflow
Here's how companies today are collaborating on product copy from design to production.
Jessica Ouyang
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January 26, 2021
Product
Building a content system in Ditto
Today, we're launching a major revamp of the component library to help teams build out their content systems in Ditto.
Jess and Jo
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January 19, 2021
Editorial
Ditto's 2020 — a Year in Review
Reflecting on the past 12 months building Ditto, one thing stands out — community.
Jolena Ma
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January 11, 2021
Product
Bringing stakeholders into Ditto
Invite stakeholders as comment-only users in Ditto to streamline your copy review process.
Jessica Ouyang
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September 14, 2020
Editorial
Thinking about text as a system
Almost every aspect of product today exists in and is thought of as a system. At Ditto, we think text should also be thought of (and implemented!) as a system.
Jessica Ouyang
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July 9, 2020
Editorial
The most important part of your design is actually the text
Product copy, or the text found on user interfaces, is the most under-leveraged part of product development today. Here are a few reasons why.
Product
Ditto for...
Writers
Componentize text, centralize feedback, and get an overhead view
Developers
Seamlessly pull in latest copy edits to development using our API/CLI and SDKs
Designers
Easily edit text in mockups, reuse copy, and always have the latest edits
Localization
Automatically integrate localized copy with both design and development
Resources
Developers
Blog
Pricing
What's New
Get Started ->