Tag: l10n
Q&A with Globalization Leader Lyena Solomon on the Globalization Strategy Playbook
In October 2021, a group of 12 globalization professionals published the Globalization Strategy Playbook, a free guide aiming to instruct leaders in the fields...
Localization Basics
So you want to expand into new markets. Or maybe you want to know what translation mistakes your company should avoid. Possibly, you’re just...
Is Your Development Relations Effort Global?
Just back from a very successful visit to Beijing and Singapore where I delivered PaaS for SaaS enablement to local Oracle partners.
Oracle Applications User Experience partner enablement is...
Minimum Viable Product: Globalization
Yes, been waiting to get a Silicon Valley-style allusion to MVP (Minimum Viable Product) into a blog post for ages. And now, thanks to Java...
On Chimpanzees, Translators, and Technology: #Haterzgonnahate
User experience (UX) is about understanding everything a user encounters along the journey to completing a task. Working in UX means observing the people,...
Localization: Culture and Context Cuts Both Ways
We often make the mistake of assuming that all source material intended for localization for a target country or region is in English and...
Contextualizing Localization in the Time of Austerity 2013
I spoke at Localization World in London last week on the subject of Context of Use in User Experience and Use of Context in...
Another UX and L10n Best Practice from Mozilla: Gaia
Here's a great example of how localization was considered by a user experience (UX) team during the design phase. The Mozilla team enabled higher...