Tag: UI
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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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Automating translations using Json scripts
One of the biggest advantages of Large Language Models (LLMs) is their ability to translate content while considering its context. Today, I’m sharing how to automate the translation process using OpenAI and a simple JSON script.
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LQA importance + issue categorization
In a previous post, we discussed LQA testing and the different approaches teams can take to cover it. However, we didn’t touch upon its importance or the categorization of issues. Let’s talk about it!
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Boosting efficiency: early localization after design phase
Starting the localization phase after code implementation usually leads to time and quality issues.
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Writing with a global mindset – part 3
Sunny greetings, dear reader! Aspects such as casing, spelling, punctuation, and terminology are especially important when it comes to translation. Some of these aspects can affect the output when using technologies like translation memory, machine translation, and language models.