Truncation is not a design strategy
If your plan for cramming more stuff on screen is “just truncate it!” you’re eventually gonna have a bad time.
When nobody is willing to do good UX copywriting, there’s a tendency to rely on truncating text if it doesn’t fit.
It’s a lazy solution that will always come back to bite you later.
Truncation is unpredictable
Eventually it will truncate words or phrases in ways you wouldn’t intend them to be.
Problematic truncation examples
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