# Check my design is ready for translation and localization

Reviews screens for text expansion, layout, formats, imagery, and cultural issues before your product launches in new languages and regions.

- Topic: Product & UX Design
- Framework: Few-Shot
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Language, Analyze, Brainstorm, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/check-my-design-is-ready-for-translation-and-localization

## Prompt

```text
Review my design for localization readiness.

**Product and screens:** [WHAT TO REVIEW - describe the layouts and paste the copy]
**Target languages and regions:** [e.g. German, Japanese, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese]
**Platform and design system:** [WEB / MOBILE; COMPONENT LIBRARY]
**Known constraints:** [FIXED-WIDTH BUTTONS, TEXT IN IMAGES, CHARACTER LIMITS]

Check:
- Text expansion: flag elements that will break if text grows 30-40% (more for short strings), such as buttons, tabs, nav, badges, and table headers. Suggest wrapping, truncation rules, or flexible layout.
- Right-to-left (if relevant): mirroring of layout, icons that should and should not flip, number and mixed-direction text.
- Formats: dates, times, numbers, currencies, addresses, names, phone numbers, units, sorting, plural forms.
- Copy: concatenated strings, sentences built from pieces, idioms, puns, and gendered or culturally specific wording that will not translate.
- Text in images or icons, and imagery, colors, gestures, or symbols that carry different meanings in target regions.
- Fonts: character support (e.g. CJK, Arabic) and line height for scripts with tall marks.
- Input: names and addresses that do not fit Western assumptions.

Return a findings table (Screen | Element | Issue | Affected locales | Fix), a list of strings to rewrite for translators with context notes, and the top 5 fixes before handoff to localization.
```

## What to fill in

- WHAT TO REVIEW - describe the layouts and paste the copy
- e.g. German, Japanese, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese
- WEB / MOBILE; COMPONENT LIBRARY
- FIXED-WIDTH BUTTONS, TEXT IN IMAGES, CHARACTER LIMITS

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