In 1982, Microsoft released Multiplan, an early spreadsheets program, then asked ASCII, their official distributor in Japan, to localize the content into Japanese. Microsoft’s director at the time summed up the process as follows: “We’d finish the product, ship it in the United S
Full stack engineers have one of the most misunderstood roles in tech. Yet Forbes ranks full stack engineers high in its list of the happiest jobs. To find out why, we spoke with Arthur Zib
January and February passed in the blink of an eye, don’t you think? At Lokalise, we are starting this year with new integrations, product updates, and educational content that will help you further improve and accelerate your localization processes. Scroll through to check out what we’ve been up to this month ⬇️ Sketch plugin
It’s interesting to explore how we understand and interpret the roles of our colleagues. If you ask people in different companies what their colleagues in other departments do, you get different answers. Plus, people can have the same job title, work in the same industry, have roughly the same level of experience, and still work in incredibly different ways. On the surface, it seems pretty simple. Developers develop. Marketers market. Salespeople sell. How
Each market needs its own subject matter expert, native translator, and quality reviewer. You’ll also need someone to manage everything, this is where localization management comes in, along with a designer or two, developers, and more. 1. Centralized localization team A centralized localization team is located entirely in-house, within a single department. All team members
With the arrival of Kotlin and its almost instant fame among the Android developer community, localizing Kotlin applications has become more than just an afterthought. In this piece, we'll delve into how Kotlin handles internationalization, including aspects such as localized time to ensure a seamless user experience across different regions. How many languages do you speak? One? Tw
We have become used to thinking that the West dominates the global economy. It’s imprinted in our collective perception of the world. But the tides are turning. With the growing population in Asia, the U.S. will not be a leading economic force for much longer. And, as the authors of the book “Factfulness” point out, the West is not fully aware o
Most people are aware of the scale of Depositphotos. Descriptions are often accompanied by the fact that it’s one of the biggest international stock photo and content libraries in the world. It has a growing library of 190 million files, clients in 192 countries, hundreds of thousands of contributors, and the list goes on. What few people know is that to make t
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