Product updates ✨

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Bulk detach for component instances

You can now detach multiple component instances at once using the new “Detach” button in the multi-select bar in projects. This makes it easier and faster to manage large sets of content elements, and save them as separate copy components.

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Enhanced security and compliance controls

We’ve completed a comprehensive security upgrade, including new internal controls and policies, improved data handling procedures, and a successful external penetration test. Need documentation for your security review? Contact us - we’re happy to help.

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🔧 Improvements

Unified suggestion card design

Component suggestion cards in the Figma plugin now match the updated design in the web app, including a slimmer layout and visible similarity scores. This provides a more consistent and intuitive experience for UX writers working in Figma.

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Search and filter result counter in copy library

You’ll now see a result counter when applying search or filters in the copy library. This makes it easier to understand how many items match your criteria at a glance.

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Option to include duplicates when saving to library

A new checkbox lets you include duplicate texts when saving to the library, available in both the web app and the Figma plugin. This gives you more flexibility when organizing and centralizing your content.

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🐞 Bug fixes

Component deletion in selected category

Fixed an issue where components in a selected category couldn’t be deleted.

🚀 New

• ‍Bulk detach for component instances from projects. Easily detach multiple component instances at once in projects using the new “Detach” button in the multi-select bar.‍
• Component count in the copy library. Now you can see how many components match your filters or search. No need to “select all” to get a count anymore!

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🛠️ Improvements

• ‍Usage visibility for AI Translation. You can now view remaining AI Translation usage directly in the Integrations tab under your workspace settings.‍
• Localization workflow updates. Translation statuses now automatically downgrade when a source language revision is submitted, ensuring translations stay in sync with the source and nothing slips through the cracks.
• Improved status sync with Figma and imports. Text and component statuses now automatically downgrade when changes are synced from Figma or imported to the copy library, ensuring content status stays in sync with adjacent processes.

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🐞 Bug Fixes

• ‍App crash on category deletion. Fixed an issue where deleting a selected category in the library could cause the app to crash.
• ‍Developer CLI: --nested flag behavior. The --nested flag now works correctly with --include-translations, returning properly nested JSON structures in all languages.

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We’ve made several updates to help you manage your content more efficiently and sync it with the design process. Here’s what’s included:

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🚀 New

• ‍More control over component creation. You can now configure settings to turn off component creation when texts are finalized. This gives you greater flexibility over what you'd like to save as library components.

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🛠️ Improvements

• Translation status downgrades. When submitting a new change in the source language, all translations in Review or Final status are now automatically downgraded to New status, ensuring translations get updated before moving forward.‍
• Figma sync made smarter. Now, when syncing changes from Figma, texts and copy components with Final status are automatically downgraded to Draft status to prevent overlooked updates.

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🐞 Bugfixes

• ‍Sorting issue resolved in library. You can now navigate to specific categories after activating sorting in the copy library without any issues.‍
• Crash fix on category deletion. We’ve fixed a bug that caused the web app to crash when deleting a selected category in the copy library.

Now, you can share and collaborate on content and translations smoothly with our new Review Mode—a dedicated space for working together on a specific set of texts or screens.

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While projects are great for collaboration, they can sometimes become cluttered. Review Mode solves this by providing dedicated spaces for specific text lists—like ad-hoc projects.

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What’s new?

With just a few clicks, you can create content and translation reviews, making collaboration smoother than ever.

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Review Mode is perfect for:

🔹 Share content with UX writers or PMs for quick edits and approvals

🔹 Send legal copy for getting approval from the legal team

🔹 Send content for translation review or post-editing

🔹 And a lot more...

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All edits and feedback sync back to Figma in one click—no more copy-pasting content edits from spreadsheets or decks!

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Learn how to use it in this guide, and try it out to streamline your content review workflow today. ⚡

We’ve added sorting options to the copy library, making it easier to find the text you look for!

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Now, you can sort your library components by:‍

• Last edited - Quickly access recently updated content.
• Last created - Easily find newly added copy during the latest project, sprint, or product increment.
• A to Z / Z to A - Spot duplicates and browse content alphabetically.

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Sorting is also applied in the export feature.

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Try this new feature in your copy library.

We’ve just improved the Import from file feature in our copy library! You can now import tags along with your content.

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If tags with the same label already exist in your workspace, we’ll reuse them instead of creating duplicates.

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This is very useful for tagging your imports or reuse tags from a different source that generated the spreadsheet!

We’ve made it even easier to save content to your library for localization and developer handoff. Now, whenever you switch a text to “Final” status, a copy component is automatically created for you.

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Here’s how it works:‍

• Finalized texts are automatically converted into copy components and stored directly in your library under the Uncategorized section.
• From there, you can quickly add a unique key, organize with tags, and move the component to the appropriate category in your library.
  

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This new feature simplifies your workflow, saves time, and ensures no content gets overlooked. 🌟

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Managing UX content often involves the challenge of separating copy from non-copy text elements. We’ve just added a new option in the Figma plugin to hide (or exclude, if you prefer) non-copy text elements.

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This feature allows you to filter out noisy non-copy texts right from the start, creating cleaner lists for review, approval, or translation—all within Figma. We hope you like it!

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🐞 In this version, we also fixed the following bugs in the copy library:

• Submitting a change with a note to a library component ignored the note.
• @mentions in the library component note input didn’t work.

We’re excited to share another update packed with functional and performance improvements designed to enhance your experience and streamline your workflow. Here’s what’s new:

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📚 Faster copy library

We’ve rebuilt the library’s infrastructure to support large-scale libraries containing tens of thousands of components.

• We’ve reduced library loading time by 70%!
• We’ve also fixed slowness when navigating large libraries with lazy loading, ensuring a smoother navigation experience.

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💫 New features and improvements

• ‍Bulk multi-select with shift: Select multiple texts at once in any list view in Frontitude for faster, easier editing.‍
• Filter component instances in projects: Filter library content for collaboration or hide it for a cleaner view when drafting and editing new content.‍
• Display component notes in language view: Translators can now view component notes in language views, which can be used as an effective way for briefings.‍
• New project export column: “Component name”: See the name and full library path of component instances in exports for better clarity.

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🎨 Figma plugin updates

• ‍Figma native notifications: We’ve switched to using Figma’s native notifications for info, success, and error messages. This change provides a cleaner experience without toast messages occupying significant portions of the plugin window.
• ‍Edit tags for multiple texts: You can now edit tags for multiple texts directly in Figma, simplifying various use cases, such as enabling designers to classify content into segments seamlessly within Figma.

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🐞 Bugfixes

• ‍Copy library's suggestions tab fix: WeYou can now exclude text instances properly when creating components from suggestions.‍
• Component-level tag filtering in exports: Filter settings now reflect correctly in exported files.

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That’s it for now! We’re gearing up for 2025 with some exciting announcements on the way. Stay tuned.

We’re excited to share a series of enhancements and fixes designed to make your Frontitude experience smoother, faster, and more intuitive. Here’s what’s new in this release:

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• ⌨️ New keyboard shortcuts. Use Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Enter to submit and finalize edits and Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+F to finalize any text, component, or translation quickly.
• 🎯 Editing improvements. The text box now auto-focuses on open, allowing for faster, mouse-free content editing.
• 🍎 Support for Apple Strings Files: Now you can fetch content updates in your iOS or macOS applications using the new .strings file support in our Developer CLI!
• 🚀 Performance upgrade. We’ve upgraded our production infrastructure to deliver faster page loads and response times worldwide, with significant improvements in the LATAM and APAC regions.

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🐞 Bug fixes

• 🛠️ Tooltip values now display correctly in the multi-select bar’s category dropdown, allowing you to view complete category names for easier editing.
• 🔄 The text editing panel closes properly when switching between frames, eliminating confusion.
• 🌐 Resolved issue with saving plurals across all languages.

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We hope you like these updates—stay tuned for more coming soon!

It’s finally here! You can now go over a list of texts and quickly open them directly within the design. This view combines the best of both design and list views, making it easier and faster than ever to go through a list of texts.

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💫 This new view works like magic with these use cases:

• Reviewing a list of new texts and adding them to the library as copy components
• Reviewing a list of new texts and hiding non-copy elements
• Reviewing and commenting on a list of draft texts
• Translating a list of finalized texts
• And many more...

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⌨️ We’ve also included a couple of new keyboard shortcuts:

• Up and Down (↑↓) keys to navigate through the list of texts
• Cmd/Ctrl+Enter to submit an edit from the editing pane

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This is another step toward implementing our vision and delivering a design-driven experience for your UX content workflows! Share your feedback with us via the website chat in the bottom-right corner.

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You can now sort screens within your projects by their layout in Figma! This new sorting feature supports both Horizontal (Left → Right) and Vertical (Top → Bottom) layouts, making it easier to visually collaborate on your content.

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You can find this feature in your project’s navigation bar, and don’t worry—once selected, it will be saved for other projects, so you won’t have to select it again and again.

The 'All Languages' view is finally available! A new project view that lets you edit translations in multiple languages without switching languages each time! Plus, you can still use the in-context editing feature in Design View.

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This feature is especially powerful for multilingual translators who provide or preview translations in multiple languages.

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Along with this feature, we’ve added a few more improvements:

• 💫 Project collaborators can now use the Search tab to find content within their projects.
• 💫 A new Developer CLI version has been released with major performance improvements.
• 💫 A new configuration for translation previews in Figma: You can now choose to preview frames only in languages that have translations.
• 💫 CSV exports now maintain the same sorting as in your project.
• 💫 You can toggle checkboxes by clicking their label anywhere in the system.
• 🐞 In the Search tab, we fixed the parallel search calls and corrected the incorrect total results counter.
• 🐞 Manually attaching text to a component with the same value didn’t work.

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Hope you enjoy this update!

This update brings a series of enhancements to improve your experience with Frontitude:

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🆕 Resizable panels. All navigation bars and editing panels in the Frontitude web app are now resizable, giving you more space exactly where you need it. Perfect for smaller screens!

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Localization enhancements

• 💫 Better locale identification. Added locale ID to the languages in the settings tab for better precision in language selection
• New language added. Introduced zh_Hant locale for non-country Traditional Chinese

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Figma plugin enhancements

• 💫 Added better support for frames which turned components and vice versa when syncing designs

• 💫 Improve the display of absolute-positioned elements in auto-layout parents in Design View

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Performance improvements

• 💫 Faster project loading times. We’ve optimized the platform to improve the loading speed of projects and the library, ensuring you spend less time waiting and more time creating

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Bug fixes

• 🐞 Fixed an issue where sorting screens by "Last created" date was incorrect

• 🐞 Resolved a bug where multi-select in design view was not counting correctly

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We believe these updates will significantly enhance your overall experience with our platform. Thank you for your continuous support and feedback!

We’re excited to ship the largest update we’ve ever delivered to the copy library. This update includes critical features that will help you build and structure your library quicker, and use it more efficiently on the go.

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Here's what's inside:

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➕ Create blank categories. We've added the option to add categories and subcategories from scratch! This allows you to strategize your library's structure and build its backbone using categories, even before you have any components.

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⚡ Category suggestions in attach box. This feature allows you to quickly find the right category when you create a new component using the attach/create box. Additionally, we’ve added the option to create the component by pressing the Enter key.

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🗑️ Delete categories. Categories can be deleted, finally. Using this one, you can clean up your library and prevent drop-downs in Frontitude display ghost categories.

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🔍 Category filter bar. If your category tree has grown extensive, this new filter in the library navigation bar will help you quickly locate the category you're looking for, regardless of its level within the category tree.

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🗄 Collapse categories. Reduce clutter and enhance focus when browsing content in your library by collapsing categories. The collapsed state is saved, allowing you to customize your library view.

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🗂️ Uncategorized components tab. Access all your uncategorized components in one place. Use it as a starting point to organize and categorize your components efficiently.

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🔠 Category names are case insensitive. It means that “Buttons” equals “buttons” when referring to categories. No more forgetting how you named a category and accidentally creating a duplicate. From now on, using “Buttons” and “buttons” (or any name) will refer to the same category.

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⬅️ RTL support for category notes. Whether you prefer writing your notes in Arabic, Hebrew, or any other RTL language, you can now enjoy proper display and formatting.

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We've also mixed in a few improvements and squashed a few bugs:

• 🐞 Fixed: Attach search box doesn't support components' library path (categories)
• 🐞 Fixed: Locked layers in Figma prevent content from being synced
• 💫 Create a new component from the attach/create section by pressing Enter
• 💫 Empty categories are displayed in the copy library
• 💫 Category nav bar indentation has been increased to highlight the hierarchy between categories
• 💫 Attach search box is case-and-space insensitive for smoother category search experience
• 💫 If Figma frames turn into components, texts are migrated instead of getting deleted

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Hope these updates will elevate your copy library workflows to a whole new level!

This time, we're enhancing Frontitude's import and export features to support more use cases:

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🪆 Nested JSON File Support in Export and Developer CLI. Now, you can export your projects and library content, and pull updates from the Developer CLI into a nested JSON file. Developers who store their strings in a nested JSON format will love this! Learn more

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📥 Import Copy Components from a CSV File. Importing content to the copy library now supports CSV files. This means you can export content from Frontitude into a spreadsheet, edit it or send it for translation, and then import all updates in just a few clicks. This is useful for teams that use an external vendor for translations! Learn more

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We've also made some improvements and fixed a few bugs:

• 🐞 Fixed: Copy library search now filters according to the component's value, not its path
• 🐞 Fixed: Importing from JSON file no longer ignores translations

• 💫 When moving multiple copy components between categories in the copy library, the selection bar is closed to avoid confusion
• 💫 Improved clarity of error messages throughout the app
• 💫 Now displaying the actual language name when importing from a JSON file, instead of "Source Language."

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Hope you enjoy this update!

We're continuing our revamp of all things search-related in Frontitude, and this time, it's the turn of the copy component attach feature!

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Attach now offers an improved search algorithm that is:

• Case insensitive
• Word order tolerant
• Includes ranked and sorted results
• Includes search on unique key and library path

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Additionally, we've squashed a few bugs and made some improvements:

• 🐞 Fixed: Text changes that appeared in the Changes tab in the Figma plugin and could not be synced

• 🐞 Fixed: Error that occurred in library load when components include corrupted text instances

• 🐞 Fixed: Editing panel crashing when texts include variables with special characters

• 💫 Export to file is now enabled from projects and library in the Starter plan

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Excited for these updates? We certainly are!

We're excited to release Similar Component Suggestions in Beta!

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Over the past couple of months, we've been integrating new infrastructure to enhance your ability to efficiently manage your copy library and ensure consistency across your content.

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These suggestions will show up in every content editing panel in Frontitude, enabling you to:

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♻️ Quickly reuse content. By displaying a list of similar copy from your library, you can efficiently reuse content and maintain consistency.

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‍💡 Draw inspiration from your library. With these suggestions, you can take a sneak peek at your library without even opening it, to get a glimpse of your content style.

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🚗 Drive consistency. Surfacing similar content from your library improves consistency as it lowers the friction in using the same content style.

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To view suggestions, just select any text in any of your Frontitude projects and see the magic happens! Make sure that you have a critical mass of components in your library beforehand.

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ℹ️ Quick notes

• As we are still fine-tuning this feature in its beta phase, we'd love to get your feedback. Use the Feedback box below the suggestions list to let us know what you think. 🙏
• Currently, these suggestions are calculated by the text value and metadata similarity. Soon, we plan to add more ways to generate suggestions... Stay tuned!

This update is all about improvements for our Figma plugin:

⚡️ We've added a quick way to create copy components out of text duplicates in Figma. When syncing is completed, a list of component suggestions is displayed to help you create copy components faster.

🎨 The plugin now supports FontAwesome icons and recognizes them as icons, not text. If you use FontAwesome in your designs, this means cleaner projects and better design previews.

💯 Several improvements were added to the design preview algorithm, generating a more authentic preview in Frontitude.

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our most anticipated feature of the year: Translation Preview in Figma! 🌐

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This feature allows you to load real translations stored in Frontitude into Figma and test your designs in any supported language.

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With this new feature, you can:

🧪  Test your designs in every language you support, without leaving Figma.

👀  Detect translation issues early and save back-and-forths with developers.

▶️​  Create Figma prototypes in any supported language with real translations.

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Dive into the feature guide to learn how to use it.

We've upgraded the unique key property to make it easier for you to work with copy components. With this update, you can:

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🧲 Attach texts to components: If the newly set unique key is already used by a component, you can quickly attach the current text to it.

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🔀 Merge components: When the saved key is used by another component, you can merge between them instead of receiving an error message.

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✨ We also included overall UI polishing in the Figma plugin! Following your feedback, we've updated a few texts and polished some areas in the Figma plugin for a smoother experience.

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Hope you enjoy this one!

We've improved the text box in our web app to support more content types:

• Tags of any type (HTML, XML, or internal syntax) can be submitted.
• Trailing line breaks can be submitted.

We've also squashed a few bugs around text editing and display:

• Truncated (ellipsis) text in Figma is now displayed properly in Design View.
• Redundant unsaved changes warnings that were shown when the editing panel is closed are now fixed.
• Plural forms creation is fixed.

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This week, we're rolling out three key features that empower developers to build automated UX content workflows:

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1️⃣ Figma Dev Mode plugin: Allows developers access content and metadata seamlessly within Figma's Dev Mode.

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2️⃣ Access token authentication for the Developer CLI: Automate content handoffs with CI/CD integration and receive content updates effortlessly.

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3️⃣ Webhooks: Connect Frontitude with external tools for real-time updates.

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Plus, a whole new Developer Docs website with quick guides and examples. From devs to devs!

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Get the full scope in the launch blog post.

We've made some updates to make using the copy library and projects easier:

• You can now press Cmd/Ctrl+A to select all items in the library or project's List View.
• At last(!), you can multi-select texts in Design View by holding Shift and selecting texts with the mouse.
• You can create copy components with a unique key right away, instead of doing it later.
• When you click on a comment in Design View, we now highlight the last discussion comment to make it easier to locate.
• We put a red counter to the library's component suggestions to make this useful feature more noticeable.

Also, we improved the look and feel across the system to make it more comfortable for your eyes. 😉

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A small yet important addition - you can now select and export specific items from project and library views.

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Just select what the relevant texts/components and click the export button. The selected items will be exported in the requested format!

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We've spent the last couple of weeks to improve the experience in different areas across the platform.

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Developer Integration

• You can now install the Developer CLI using Yarn.
• All JSON export keys are now sorted alphabetically from A to Z.

Copy Library

• We've added an option to detach instances from the Design Explorer. You can find this option from Component > Options menu > View all instances. This makes it easy to remove irrelevant texts from a copy component.

Projects

• We've introduced a new Open in Figma button next to screens in Frontitude projects. This allows you to quickly open the corresponding frame in Figma. To make this work, simply set the Figma file URL in the plugin after syncing frames.
• Tags are now sorted alphabetically, making it more manageable when you have a large number of tags for a text or copy component.
• CSV export now mirrors the project view order, making it easier to determine the export order and work with it.

Bug Fixes

• We fixed the drag-and-drop functionality for screens in the project navigation bar.
• Navigating screens in Design View using keyboard keys is now fixed. Previously, pinned screens messed up the screen order.

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Today, we're launching a major update the turns the UX Writing Assistant to a multiplayer tool. Say hello to the UX Writing Assistant for Teams.

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With this new version, design teams can step into the AI era of UX content creation with the most advanced tool, helping to:

• Empower team members to write professional UX content using AI
• Integrate content guidelines with the design system to effectively enforce consistency
• Streamline the entire design process and save time on writing and reviewing

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Read the full announcement and try Guidelines for free on the UX Writing Assistant today! If you like it, show your support and share your feedback on our Product Hunt launch.

Exciting update to our UX Writing Assistant!

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1. Custom length instruction: Now you can set custom character, word, or sentence limits for more precise content length limits.
2. Upgraded GPT 3.5 model: Experience even more accurate content generation with the latest OpenAI model. Combined with prompt updates, the model now follows instructions much better.
3. Improved Audit: If you're a private beta participants, this one is relevant to you! We've dramatically improved audit scans accuracy for better content reviews.

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Happy writing!

Exciting product update!

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We're thrilled to introduce a game-changing capability that's all about keeping your projects clean. With our latest release, Frontitude now automatically detects and hides non-copy elements within your projects.

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Here's what you need to know:

1. Maintaining cleaner projects: This new capability intelligently identifies non-copy elements, ensuring that your projects remain clutter-free and focused on what matters most—your UX content.
2. What content is filtered out: The new algorithm efficiently filters out dates, numbers, emails, and other non-copy texts that often clutter your project workspace. This means you can spend more time on the creative aspects of your work and less time on manual cleanup.
3. Easy retrieval: These filtered-out texts aren't going anywhere! You can always access these hidden items in the "Hidden Items" section within your projects.

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We hope it will help you remove the clutter and maintain cleaner projects!

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You can now set your own key convention for any texts stored in your copy library and projects from your workspace settings.

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A convention can be define by selecting key casing and a delimiter. Then, everyone on your team can keep a consistent key creation by being prompted with a warning if the key doesn't follow your team's convention.

We are releasing some improvements to our JSON import feature, aimed at providing a more efficient content onboarding on the copy library:

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• Nested JSON Support: Import can now handle nested JSON structure.
• Automatic Categorization: Instead of manually categorize hundreds of copy components, the new import automatically creates categories for keys containing nested objects, simplifying content management.

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These enhancements are focused on improving the onboarding process for content coming from the codebase or localization systems.