Continuous Mobile UI Localization – Case study
Requirements
Localize the Mobile UI into 12 Languages
Challenges
- Create Mobile UI application content with user friendly language for non-English-speaking users.
- Translate the technical terms in simplified manner to reach local audience.
- Menus and UA strings should be user friendly and easily understandable for non-English-speaking users.
- Test it to ensure that it fits in the given space.
Solution
- Created an in-house & external member team with experience of Mobile UI and UA content translation & testing
- Localized the UI by translations & testing
- Tested the UI text in client provided simulator to ensure right sizing of text
Project Details
Service: Translation, localization, testing
Source language: English
Target languages: Bengali, Hindi, Indonesian, Javanese, Kannada, Malayalam, Malay, Marathi, Punjabi, Sundanese, Tamil and Telugu
Volume: 10 million words till date.
TAT: 3-4 days every time
Frequency: Bi-Weekly
Technologies: SDL Passolo Translator / Win OS / LST (internally developed PMS solution)
Result
Client launched the Mobile and apps in Indian languages and other Asian regional languages.
This helped them create a broader user base and enhance business volume. It helped the client mobile firm to expand their market across the Asian region.