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 | | International User Interfaces by Elisa M. del Galdo (Editor), Jakob Nielsen (Editor) ISBN-10: 9780471149651 ISBN-10: 0-471-14965-9 ISBN-13: 9780471149651 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-14965-1 Paperback 1996-06-15 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Leading authorities from around the world discuss the latest topics in international user-interface design. With most major companies in the computer industry depending on exports for 50 percent or more of their sales, user-interface design teams face a major challenge in making their products both useful and accessible to the global marketplace. It is no longer enough to simply offer a product translated in ten to twenty different languages. Users also want a product that acknowledges their unique cultural characteristics and business practices. In International User Interfaces, Elisa del Galdo and Jakob Nielsen head a team of acknowledged international authorities who confront some of the problems currently facing international user-interface developers, including: * International Usability Engineering. * Developing a Cultural Model. * Arabization of Graphical User Interfaces. * Managing a Multiple-Language Document System. * An Intelligent Lexical Management System for Multilingual Machine Translation. * A Chinese Text Display Supported by an Algorithm for Chinese Segmentation. * Breaking the Language Barrier with Graphics. * Cultural Issues That Can Affect Training | ||
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A mish-mash of articles that's not very actionable. I had recently purchased the NielsenNorman group's International User Interfaces whitepaper, ..., was impressed with the whitepaper, and consequently had high hopes for this book. I was pretty disappointed. It's a mish-mash of articles, only a few of which were very actionable. One such article, in chapter 3, is pretty good in that it covers to what degree various cultures communicate explicitly versus non-explicitly. This fact alone is very useful to anyone doing usability testing or market research outside the US. | ||
what any sw developer should know We also recommend the book "SW Internationalization and Localization" by Uren, Howard, Perinotti. | ||