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Internationalization: Creating Digital Content for the World

Learn how a digital product becomes world-ready: how does it need to be designed for worldwide release without altering its code for each market? Who needs to be involved in which stages of the process? How do you do assure quality for world-readiness?

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Created by: Pavel Soukenik

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Want to learn how to create a digital product that is truly ready for the world? One that can be released in many markets and for different languages without any alterations to its code? This is the course for you! It shows you everything a developer or PM needs to know to keep in mind when working on software or websites that will be consumed across different markets.
This course is an introduction to internationalization, the process of developing the core of a digital product whose features and design are not solely based on a single language or locale. You will learn how to cater for different writing systems, regional formats and even directionality of scripts like the Arabic one. You will also learn about design requirements around localizability that need to be met before you can even start with translating your product into other languages. And you will get a glimpse at the challenges of creating products that don't offend foreign markets because they are culturally or politically insensitive.
This course will show what needs to be done to ensure the best user experience in international markets even before localizing.

Advanced Level

Time: 4 Weeks - 2-5 hours per week

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Pavel Soukenik

Pavel Soukenik is a localization professional with 20 years of experience. He started his career at Ando Translations in Brno, Czech Republic, where he gained skills with CAT tools, quality assurance, terminology, style guides, and project management. He joined Moravia in 2006, and since relocating to Seattle, WA in 2009, he has used his experience in account management and operations to deliver localization services to top technology companies. He is currently the Chief Client Acquisition Officer at RWS Moravia and teaches localization at the University of Washington. He is a professional coach for rising leaders and in his spare time he volunteers by teaching and playing chess with seniors.