Culture and focus
Affective Design asks: How does culture affect what we focus on? Some interesting recommendations…
Design for eastern cultures should take more notice of the contextual elements that work together to build the design. Design for western cultures should acknowledge that a central object will be the focus of attention, and make sure that object is fully realized.
Posted on June 6, 2007
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Cross-language searches on Google
According to TechCrunch, Google is soon to announce a cross-language search tool:
”... queries will be auto translated into other languages to retrieve more results, and all results will then be translated back into the original query language.”
Search results in both languages are to be presented side-by-side. This seems like an interesting approach to multi-language searching; I’m eager to see it in action.
Posted on May 16, 2007
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