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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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! 🥳

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ditto now supports Grammarly natively — in both our web app and our Figma plugin — to correct misspellings, grammar mistakes, and improve writing clarity.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

Today, we're excited to launch Variables in Ditto, which enables teams to easily interpolate dynamic values and links into product text.

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.

We're excited to launch Component Suggestions, which intelligently suggest Ditto components to create and reuse based on text in your projects.

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.

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.

Today, we're excited to launch Variants in Ditto, which allow teams to write and preview text variations for frames in their projects.

Learn the secret behind how we develop and debug Figma plugins in real-time, and how you can too.

Ditto's component suggestions automatically surfaces components from your library most similar to text in a design file.

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. 

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.

Here's how companies today are collaborating on product copy from design to production.

Today, we're launching a major revamp of the component library to help teams build out their content systems in Ditto.

Reflecting on the past 12 months building Ditto, one thing stands out — community.

Invite stakeholders as comment-only users in Ditto to streamline your copy review process.

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.

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.