With #WWDC23 and the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS — and now — visionOS, this is an incredibly exciting year for Internationalization & Localization. #i18n
Here’re some features you’ll want to check out! ⤵️
With #WWDC23 and the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS — and now — visionOS, this is an incredibly exciting year for Internationalization & Localization. #i18n
Here’re some features you’ll want to check out! ⤵️
…and lots more:
• Enhanced Autocorrect for Arabic, Korean, Thai, and many other languages.
• Predictive Typing for Hebrew, Romanian, and Polish. Ukrainian was added in iOS 16.4.
• Multilingual Typing for Polish, Romanian, and Turkish.
• QuickPath for Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Romanian & Polish.
• Scribble for Arabic & Vietnamese.
• Live Text for Thai & Vietnamese.
• Transliteration for Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil & Telugu.
Can’t wait for y’all to try these and share feedback!
🙇 feedbackassistant.apple.com
This is a great set of guidelines as well as mental models that go a long way towards making designs accessible to everyone across all languages at the same level of attention-to-detail.
TL;DR Tip: Don’t design in English and expect it to magically scale!
Q: How do we make Spotify relevant for everyone who uses our app?
A: Localization!
On the blog, two experts walk you through what localization is, how it works at Spotify, and gift you some actionable tips on how to design with global users in mind. spoti.fi/Localization. 🎁
1 to this tip, and I’ll add my own: Choose a character to serve as a prefix to activate a bunch of replacements that might otherwise be noisy. I use ‘!’.
The NLP team at Apple is hiring! We build the software and predictive models that power the iOS keyboard across dozens of languages. Open roles in thread. Let's meet up at #NAACL.
سعيد بمشاركتي في مؤتمر أبل للمطورين بمحاضرة عن أساسيات تصميم المنتجات الرقمية باللغة العربية. المحاضرة موجودة باللغتين العربية والإنجليزية.
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Chuffed to host a couple of sessions at this year's #WWDC22 - including the first non-English one!
I walk through the basics of designing for Arabic in product design in both Arabic and English.
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Do check out @Klaarname’s amazing talk, in which he showcases many great examples from Apple’s own apps such as Weather, and shows us how we can implement similar UIs in our own apps, all while keeping localization top of mind 😍
Learn about challenging edge-cases with localization and how to use the hot new #SwiftUI features for the benefit of all your users in my talk “Localization by example”.
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The lounge will stay open tonight so that y’all can ask us questions from all over the world. Looking forward to seeing everyone’s questions tomorrow morning! 🌏🌎🌍