Tag: UI copy
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Localization survival guide for PMs: why localization matters to project, product and program managers
Sunny greetings, dear reader! This is a mini-series for all the managers out there. It can also be helpful for globalization experience teams to recommend to their managers so everyone is working with a common baseline.
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Use of AI to create designs that adapt to your global markets (part I)
In my last post I explored how to obtain international content to create designs that adapt to global markets. I explained how the traditional method, pseudolocalization, is fast but imprecise, since it always assumes a worst-case expansion that may not reflect reality. I suggested a more modern approach: using an AI prompt to identify the…
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Global design – the final frame: imagery insights to nail your design
Sunny greetings, dear reader! We are approaching the end. Not the end of the world. But the end of our fun design mini series. Today we clear up some more details when it comes to imagery and your design.
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Global design – flags aren’t neutral, formats aren’t simple
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Global design is full of hidden traps – some political, some purely cultural. It’s about avoiding hidden landmines. Flags that seem harmless can spark political debates.
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Global design – when icons misbehave and sentences rebel
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Icons often look like the safest choice in global design, but cultural context can quickly turn them into a liability, while English sentence structures crumble in Korean or Arabic.
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Global design – from colors to calendars: surviving global UI
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Designing for a global audience is not just about how things look. It’s about how they’re understood. Red might scream “error” in one country and “good luck” in another. A date that seems clear to you can trigger missed meetings halfway around the world.
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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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SMS for your global audience
One of the most overlooked areas in global communication is the technical limitations of reaching a worldwide audience, and SMS is one of the least understood.
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Use of metadata in conjunction with LLMs to improve MT output
During our time off this summer, I’ve been diving into upcoming trends in the LLM (Large Language Models) space and how they’re gradually approaching MT (Machine Translation) quality. However, one aspect that surprises me is the lack of discussion around using metadata in translation resources to enhance MT/LLM output.