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Global design – when layouts flip and fonts fight back
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Designing for the world means planning for every script and layout. Switch to Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese or Vietnamese and layouts mirror, arrows misbehave, fonts break and accents get clipped. Let’s dive into the hidden challenges of global UI.
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Global design – where sleek UIs meet linguistic reality
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Think your UI is ready for the world? Think again. The cleanest layout can fall apart under the weight of longer words. Localization is where your sleek design meets reality and sometimes it gasps, flips or completely misreads the room.
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GILT Ninjas on winter break
The GILT Ninjas are hitting pause for the winter season! Catch us again in February. Have an awesome, safe and magical winter or whatever season you are in right now!
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How to start your product’s global journey
With the rise of large language models (LLMs) and their so well known translation capabilities, one big question keeps popping up: Do you still need a computer assisted translation (CAT) tool to take your product global?
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Marketing vs organic growth: finding the right balance for international expansion
When companies expand internationally, they often face a classic question: do we go in strong with marketing or do we take a step back and let organic demand show us the way?
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Payment localization – yes, it’s a thing!
When we talk about localization most people think of words, buttons and maybe a date format or two. But when it comes to global products nothing gets more personal – or more complicated – than money.