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If I had a dollar for every time I had to teach someone how to share screen in Google Meets... In Google's defense, text labels are hard for i18n, but icons wi
by calderwoodra 2y ago
If I had a dollar for every time I had to teach someone how to share screen in Google Meets...
In Google's defense, text labels are hard for i18n, but icons without text is low effort, bad UX too.
- xg15 2y agoThe meanings of icons can also be highly dependant on culture, we just tend to ignore those dependencies easier than with text.
- esafak 2y agoAnd they'll never know people are struggling. How would they?
- fedorareis 2y agoBut if they are doing accessibility they have to create alt text for the icons anyway and that needs to be translated. So the only i18n complexity left would the ltr vs rtl languages and depending on how you place the text they wouldn’t need to really change the layout to accommodate both.
- calderwoodra 2y agoAs someone who's done a fair amount of frontend work, the hard part is always squeezing text into a clean UX. The problem language is usually German, so if you have copy like "share screen", you have to find a way to fit in 12 (2x English) 'M' characters comfortably.
- kmstout 2y ago$ aspell dump master | egrep -i '^i.{18}n$' institutionalization internationalization
- card_zero 2y agoThey're institutionalized into replacing text with icons.