Product updates ✨

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:

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• 🛠️ 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.

We just published the constantly evolving Custom Instructions Cheat Sheet that includes instructions that were thoroughly tested with our UX Writing Assistant.

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These instructions are organized into multiple use cases, and can help you write custom instructions to generate better content suggestions.

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If you have a useful instruction that isn't listed, or need any help with phrasing instructions, reach out to us through our website chat or email us at hi@frontitude.com.

If you use Frontitude for product localization, we have added the option to set the source language instead of just labeling it as 'Source language.'

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This can be useful for manual exports and integration with developers, in addition to providing a better experience when using it in the Frontitude web app.

We're working on a new feature that will allow your team to write as one. We call it Team Guidelines, and it's now available in private beta.

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Team Guidelines allow you to create smart content guidelines that can be interpreted by our AI model and seamlessly integrate with your design system.

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To join our exclusive private beta, simply reach out to us through our website chat or email us at hi@frontitude.com.

We created a Figma file that walks you through the plugin's core features and shows you how to use them effectively. We left a nice surprise at the end, with an exclusive offer.

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So, grab your cup of coffee/tea/matcha and take it for a spin: Open the playground file in Figma

Introducing: Predefined instructions

You can now refine copy suggestions quickly by selecting instructions from a list, grouped by Tone, Length, and Element. Read this help guide to learn more about how to use it!

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(Yet another) Plugin redesign

We redesigned the plugin (once again) according to the great feedback we have received from you. It's now easier to rewrite and apply suggestions in your Figma designs.

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Prompt upgrade boosts success rate to 40%

Our engineering team has meticulously redesigned the rewrite logic which led to better copy suggestions. The plugin's success rate improved from 30% last month, to 40% today! It means that 40% of the suggestions are getting applied directly in the design or copied to the clipboard.

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We're happy to share with you this new pack of improvements to streamline your Frontitude workflows and integration with your design, development, and localization processes!

Upgraded auto-attach mechanism 🔗

We understand the importance of seamless sync with your designs. Our team has worked tirelessly to improve the way it attaches new texts to existing copy components: Now, if you have multiple components with the same text, it uses the Figma component hierarchy to match it with the copy component that shares that same parent Figma component!

Screen names auto-update on sync 🔁

Our Figma plugin now syncs the latest frame names to Frontitude, unless they have been renamed previously. This keeps your Frontitude project in better sync with the design file.

Import translations from localization systems ⤵️

It is now possible to override existing text values, whether it is the original text or the translation. This lets you update translations in Frontitude, test them on the design, and soon preview them in Figma.

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CSV export: Merge component instances ⤴️

When exporting projects into CSV files, you can now merge component instances together into one row. This means that you can have one row per text, even if it repeats in the project.

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CLI improvements 💻

We released a few improvements and fixes to our Developer CLI:

• Android XML format bugfixes - We fixed a few issues with variables and escaping characters.
• When merged to the strings JSON file, keys are sorted alphabetically. This makes it easier to understand what keys were added or removed.

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After getting so much feedback from you (thank you), we're releasing a new version of the UX Writing Assistant plugin that includes a redesign and improvements. ✨

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The new release includes:

1. Rewrite button relocated for easier access
2. Suggestions can be applied directly from the list
3. Upgraded to a newer GPT model to get enhanced suggestions
4. A few squashed bugs and improved overall stability

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These significant performance improvements will improve your experience when uploading and syncing new content between Frontitude and Figma.

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‍What you can expect?

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🖇️ Easily sync multiple frames at once - You can now smoothly upload multiple frames at once from your Figma files to Frontitude's web app.

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💫 Faster web app to Figma sync - The synchronization process from the web app to the Figma plugin has been accelerated, resulting in a faster and smoother experience.

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🕐 Plugin loading, 10X faster - Loading the plugin in Figma is now much faster!

Developer handoff

📝 New “metadata” in the Developer CLI - The new format is now available as part of the Developer CLI’s “pull” command. Use it to get additional properties for each text fetched from Frontitude to sync it with other tools.

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🔠 Keys sorted alphabetically - In the file export and developer CLI features, keys are exported sorted alphabetically (ascending) to give you a better overview of changes in your strings file.

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General improvements

🎨 Quickly view text in design - We added a button at the top of the editing panel to allow you to quickly view the text in the design or list view. Switching from a filtered list view to design view is now super easy!

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🔎 Attach texts to components using unique keys - Components can now be searched by their unique key when attached to a text in the Figma plugin or web app.

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🔢 Sort screens - Now you can sort screens inside a project, alphabetically or by the time they were created. This allows you to maintain order when you use a numeric convention for the screen names in the design tool.

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🧲 Turn off auto-attach - If you do not want texts to be automatically attached to similar components, you can turn off auto-attach from your workspace settings.

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Bugfixes

🚥 Status indicators in translation mode - When filtering by status inside a project, indicators now appear in the left navigation bar to allow collaborators to find the relevant texts faster.

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‍💎 Design View stabilization - Issues where the Design View displayed texts twice or misplaced texts were fixed. It also knows how to exclude hidden texts in Figma that were displayed before.

We’re excited to introduce Frontitude’s brand-new UX Writing Assistant: The Figma plugin that lets you craft and refine your product’s copy, 10x faster, using AI-powered copy suggestions.

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With the UX Writing Assistant, you can easily:

✍️ Generate industry-inspired copy suggestions, tailored to your target users and product's voice and tone.

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✅ Apply UX Writing best practices to improve user experience and guide users through your product.

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💫 Save the copy into a single list to improve the assistant's performance and quickly reuse it in the future.

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Read the official announcement to get the full story and visit our Plugin page in Figma.

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‍Live in Product Hunt: We launched the UX Writing Assistant in Product Hunt, check out our launch page!

⚒️ The new Integrations tab - This new tab in your workspace settings opens up an entire world of workflows! It allows you to integrate external tools into your Frontitude workflow. The first available integration allows you to use Frontitude's Developer CLI to automate the developer handoff. Soon, there will be many more available. We'd love to hear what integrations you'd like to see -- just hit Request next to the integration you wish to have.

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✨‍ Improved Design View - We've improved the design fetching algorithm to produce more authentic designs in the Design View. With this update, texts that appear behind semi-transparent overlays in Figma (like in modals) will be embedded into the design and excluded from the project texts.

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🏷️ Edit tags in bulk in projects - This allows you to add or remove tags to multiple texts in a project. Up until now, this feature was only in the library, and now it's available in projects as well.

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📚 Delete variables - Delete unused variables from your workspace settings to make sure team members use the right ones. Once a variable is deleted, components that use it will have the curly-braced variable replacing the placeholder. For example, "Hello Wendy" will turn into "Hello {{firstName}}".

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📝 Edit billing details - Now you don't have to contact us to update your billing details. We added a link to the Usage & Billing tab under your workspace settings so you can edit it all by yourself!