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Language provides orientation, makes systems understandable, and brings brands to life. But language only works if it is simple, precise, and human. Good content translates complexity into comprehensibility, and makes digital products accessible to everyone.

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Why Content

Language is design. Just visibly different.

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Language provides orientation, makes systems understandable, and brings brands to life. But language only works if it is simple, precise, and human. Good content translates complexity into comprehensibility, and makes digital products accessible to everyone.

Why Content

Language is design. Just visibly different.

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Language provides orientation, makes systems understandable, and brings brands to life. But language only works if it is simple, precise, and human. Good content translates complexity into comprehensibility, and makes digital products accessible to everyone.

Our content mindset

Content doesn't fill space, it creates communication

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We don't write to fill space. We write to make an impact. Our approach combines UX, brand, and ethics to create clear, accessible, and consistent communication.

  • We create clarity instead of complexity.
  • We design a consistent tone and brand voice across all channels.
  • We combine user understanding with corporate goals.
  • We write inclusively, precisely and responsibly.

Our content mindset

Content doesn't fill space, it creates communication

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We don't write to fill space. We write to make an impact. Our approach combines UX, brand, and ethics to create clear, accessible, and consistent communication.

  • We create clarity instead of complexity.
  • We design a consistent tone and brand voice across all channels.
  • We combine user understanding with corporate goals.
  • We write inclusively, precisely and responsibly.

Enable collaboration

Good content creates a common language

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It helps teams communicate consistently, make decisions transparent, and take responsibility.

In this way, content becomes the connecting foundation between strategy, design, development, and operation.

Enable collaboration

Good content creates a common language

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It helps teams communicate consistently, make decisions transparent, and take responsibility.

In this way, content becomes the connecting foundation between strategy, design, development, and operation.

What good content can do

Create comprehensibility

Explain complex functions in a clear and accessible way

Provide orientation

Guide users safely through products and processes

Build trust

Through clear, honest and consistent language

Remove barriers

Inclusive communication for different abilities and contexts

Bringing brands to life

Translating attitude, tone and identity noticeably

Ensuring quality

Fewer errors, fewer queries, better use

Our process: Content across the entire product life cycle

Content accompanies digital products from the initial idea to ongoing operation.

Depending on the phase your product is in, content takes on different tasks.

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initiation
Define
Build
Transition
Use

Understanding language

It starts with understanding target groups, contexts and brand values.

Goal: A common basis for language and tonality.

Copy & Tonality Workshop

Description

In Copy & Tonality Workshops, we collaboratively develop a language that fits the brand and speaks clearly to users. We define how the product's voice should feel and translate this attitude into specific phrasings. This isn't about mere word lists, but about developing an intuition for how language provides orientation and builds trust. The result is a textual foundation that ensures a consistent impact across interfaces, communication, and microcopy.

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Your input:

  • Insight into existing communication or brand identity
  • Willingness to reflect and sharpen language effects together

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Our result:

  • Clearly defined tonality guidelines with example formulations
  • Linguistic guidelines for UI texts, communication and microcopy
  • Common understanding of how the brand should feel linguistically
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Writing Benchmarks

Description

Writing benchmarks help categorize the quality of existing copy—both within your own product and in comparison to the industry landscape. We analyze phrasing, tone of voice, clarity, and linguistic guidance to derive criteria that serve as a quality standard. The goal is to establish a solid foundation that allows language to evolve based on objective standards rather than personal taste.

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Your input:

  • Access to existing texts or communication materials
  • Insight into which environment or requirements the language should be measured against

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Our result:

  • Analysis and comparison of existing texts based on defined criteria
  • Established quality standards for future text work
  • Basis for consistent language across touchpoints
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Providing structure

Understanding becomes a system.
We define rules, patterns and guidelines for consistent communication.

Goal: Clarity and recognition across all touchpoints.

Copy Audit

description:

A copy audit systematically examines existing texts for consistency, clarity, and brand alignment. We analyze language exactly where it takes effect—in interfaces, notifications, help texts, or supporting communication—and identify areas where phrasing causes confusion, remains inconsistent, or offers potential for greater clarity. The goal is to improve linguistic quality not just sporadically, but through a structured approach.

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Your input:

  • Access to existing texts in the system or product environment
  • Insight into desired language or brand identity

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Our result:

  • Analysis with clearly identified optimization potentials
  • Recommendations for language standardization and sharpening
  • Basis for revised texts or guidelines for further work
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UI Style Guide

Description:

A UI style guide determines how design, language and interaction should work together. It defines colors, typography, operating elements and visual patterns in such a way that later designs can be implemented consistently — even across different teams or systems. The style guide does not serve as a fixed set of rules, but as a reference for clear, recognizable design. In this way, the design remains consistent, comprehensible and compatible with future expansions.

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Your input:

  • Insight into existing design or product identity
  • Clarify how much design guidance the team needs

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Our result:

  • Documented UI style guide with clear design and interaction principles
  • Uniform basis for design, implementation and development
  • Basis for consistent product design across releases and teams
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Tone of Voice

Description

Tone of Voice defines how a brand feels linguistically—regardless of the channel or format. We translate brand values into a linguistic attitude and derive how texts should sound to contribute to the desired impact. This is not about rigid phrasing rules, but about providing orientation: Which language carries the identity, creates proximity or clarity, and avoids misunderstandings? This results in a linguistic expression that remains consistent yet feels human.

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Your input:

  • Insight into existing language elements or examples of communication
  • Clarifying which language and brand identity should shape the style

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Our result:

  • Defined tone of voice with a clear language stance
  • Guidelines on how language should work in different contexts
  • Basis for consistent language in product texts and communication
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Designing content

Language becomes part of the interface.
We write content that guides, explains and creates trust.

Goal: Clear and user-centered communication within the product.

UX Copy (produce & localize)

Description:

In UX Copy, we develop texts that guide users through the application, provide orientation, or support decision-making. The phrasing emerges directly from the usage context: What needs to be understood, where do questions arise, and how can language create clarity without being over-explanatory? This process accounts for how differently language can be perceived depending on the market or the specific situation. The goal is copy that supports functionality and integrates seamlessly into the product experience.

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Your input:

  • Access to relevant screens, processes, or existing formulations
  • Insight into desired language settings or tonally oriented guidelines

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Our result:

  • User-centered texts for UI elements such as labels, notes or messages
  • Precise formulations that combine function and usage situation
  • Linguistic basis, which can be extended in accordance with the market or usage context
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Test effectiveness

Operation shows whether language works.
We analyse usage, comprehension and points of friction.

Goal: Continuous improvement of comprehensibility.

Copy Workshops

Description:

In Copy Workshops, we work collaboratively on specific texts—focusing on sharpening the language, making it more understandable, and bringing it into a unified line. Unlike tone of voice development, the focus here is not on strategic attitude but on practical execution: Which phrasing carries more weight? How can messages be shortened, structured more clearly, or designed to provide direct support to users? Decisions are made transparently as a team and firmly anchored in the language of the product.

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Your input:

  • Provision of the texts or areas of text that are to be worked on
  • Willingness to make joint decisions based on language guidelines

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Our result:

  • Revised texts as a common consensus
  • Clarified formulation principles based on specific examples
  • Linguistic security for further text production in the project
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QA Checks

Description:

QA checks ensure that texts meet the defined quality standards. We don't just check for spelling or grammar; we verify whether the language consistently matches the tone of voice, is phrased clearly and functions effectively within the usage context. The review takes place directly within the product context to ensure that language is not evaluated in isolation, but precisely where it actually makes its impact.

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Your input:

  • Provision of the final planned texts or screens
  • Insight into defined tonality or language guidelines

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Our result:

  • Reviewed texts with clearly marked corrections or approval recommendations
  • Ensuring that language is used consistently and appropriately
  • Basis for a clean and final transfer to implementation or publication
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Ensuring consistency

Products grow. Language must grow with them.
We help teams to sustainably anchor content.

Goal: Scalable, responsible communication.

Copy Tests

Description:

Copy tests examine whether texts within a product are understood and achieve their intended effect. During usability testing, we observe how people react to specific phrasing: Is the next step easy to find? Do questions or misunderstandings arise? Does the tone feel appropriate? Based on these insights, texts are purposefully refined until they provide clear guidance and enhance the overall user experience.

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Your input:

  • Provision of text passages or screens that are to be tested
  • Insight into desired language settings or previously defined guidelines

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Our result:

  • Feedback on the comprehensibility and impact of the texts in the context of use
  • Specific adjustment recommendations for language optimization
  • Basis for final formulations that can be used in the product
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A/B Copy Test

Description:

In an A/B Copy Test, we deliberately create different text variants to compare various approaches. Instead of varying things at random, we formulate hypotheses: What impact is Variant A intended to achieve—and what problem is Variant B trying to solve differently? The variants are designed to be tested and evaluated within the actual usage context. The goal is not just to find better phrasing, but to understand why one version performs more effectively.

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Your input:

  • Insight into existing wording or desired point of communication
  • Clarifying which effect or hypothesis should be tested

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Our result:

  • Two or more developed text variants with clear test intent
  • Formulations that specifically address different effects
  • Basis for subsequent A/B usage testing or quantitative measurement
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Why UseTree when it comes to content

Digital products speak to their users.
Through every word, every label and every piece of feedback.

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For us, content is not an afterthought.
It determines whether products are understandable, trustworthy and usable.

DOS

What we do

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  • We write clearly and comprehensibly.
  • We structure language systematically.
  • We develop content based on usage.
  • We ensure consistency across touchpoints.
  • We anchor responsibility in every text.

Dont's

What we don´t do

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  • No buzzwords without meaning
  • No texts without purpose
  • No content without context
  • No language that excludes
  • No inconsistent tone

Our Conclusion

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Good content explains, guides, and creates trust.

It is what makes digital products truly usable.

Do you have any questions?

We would be happy to discuss your content project with you. Whether you need initial guidance, are facing a specific challenge or have an ongoing product, we can help you use language effectively and responsibly.

Julia Fritzsche

Julia Fritzsche

Content Lead

content@usetree.com
+49 30 8632919-1
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