Looking ahead after the US election
All the messages I've gotten today from friends and colleagues abroad are worried. They woke up to the fact that the US had elected...
Blue, Gorm, Elektrisches Blau: David Bowie in Irish and Transcreation
Táimid ann sa mhóimint dhraíochtach seo
Sin é an stuif as a bhfitear brionglóidí . . . *
I'm mega-fan of the music of the late...
Watch Your Audience: Cultural Nuances for WearableTech Whisperers
I was demoing some smartwatch user experience in Central Europe recently and a couple of older members of the audience remarked that I reminded...
West meets East: Personalizing for Asia
One size does not fit all. In this day and age, highly divergent markets have prevented companies from adhering to one fixed formula. When...
Bridget Jones’s Burkini: Emojis and Digital Diversity
Emojis have been called the world's fastest growing language.
Unsurprisingly, how societal diversity is represented by emojis is to the fore. Icons for gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation,...
User Experience Takeaways: Still Hungry for Localization Change
Readers of MultiLingual magazine will know about the “Takeaway” section towards the back of the publication. It’s a kind of bully pulpit-meets-12 Step meeting...
My First LocWorld
I was born in the eighties in the Netherlands, but Tegel International Airport, Berlin, gives me a sense of what the seventies may have...
How Well Do You Know Your Local User? Take A Walk (or Run) In Their Shoes
How well do you know the local market? What assumptions do you operate on? Well, take a look at this post "Design Time @...
Going Native: Chinese Mobile UX
Shout out for a great article by Dan Grover (@dangrover), writing about Chinese mobile app user interface trends.
Dan relocated from San Francisco to China,...