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Designing user experience for multilingual websites (UXcamp Europe 2013)

Designing user experience for multilingual websites (UXcamp Europe 2013)

(with Remy Blaettler)

Gunnar Bittersmann

June 23, 2013
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  1. Designing user experience
 for multilingual Web sites Designing multilingual websites


    for user experience Gunnar Bittersmann @g16n user experience multilingual websites
  2. Localization adaptation of a system for a specific region •

    language related aspects – translations – different characters and scripts • cultural aspects – units, currencies – time and date formats – meaning of colors and symbols – suitability of images • legal requirements
  3. Internationalization is not a feature. It is an architecture.” —Addison

    Phillips, Chair W3C Internationalization WG “
  4. internationalization i1ternationalization i2ernationalization i3rnationalization i4nationalization i5ationalization i6tionalization i7ionalization i8onalization i9nalization

    i10alization i11lization i12ization i13zation i14ation i15tion i16ion i17on i18n internationalization 18 localization 10 L10n a11y g16n accessibility 11 Gunnar Bittersmann 16
  5. GET  /index.html  HTTP/1.1   Host:  example.net   User-­‐Agent:  Mozilla/5.0  (Macintosh;

     Intel  Mac  OS  X  10.8;  rv: 20.0)  Gecko/20100101  Firefox/20.0   Accept:  text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/ *;q=0.8   Accept-­‐Language:  en-­‐us,en;q=0.8,de-­‐de;q=0.6,de;q=0.4,pl;q=0.2   Accept-­‐Encoding:  gzip,  deflate   HTTP header
  6. Language negotiation • Provide your content in a language that

    the user (most likely) understands • Provide the option to change the language English polski deutsch русский español français ᬊየ िहन्दी ةيبرعلا
  7. First name Last name Given name Family name Ferenc Liszt

    Liszt Ferenc Björk Guðmundsdóttir Steven Van  Zandt Ludwig van  Beethoven
  8. How shall we call you? Björk  Guðmundsdóttir Liszt  Ferenc Name

    Björk Ferenc Steven  Van  Zandt Ludwig  van  Beethoven Beethoven Little  Steven