One of the chaps at 37signals said that writing copy was the quickest way of improving your app’s user interface, but good copy writing is an abstract concept and that’s why the thesaurus is one of the most powerful UI tools.
Case & Point: I asked 37s’ Jason Fried what he thought of my copy change to Sortfolio:
But if I used a thesaurus I would have found an even better solution and avoid getting schooled by Mr. Fried in his next tweet.
Before you ship your next UI run through some of the key words with a thesaurus and see if you can come up with a better copy solution than you already have.