Universal Language Selector Mobile

This page outlines an interaction design work flow to improve the user experience of selecting a known language from a laundry list of unknown languages on a mobile device.

See also: Universal Language Selector

Status

• Initially proposed during the Mediawiki Pune hackathon by user:Planemad with inputs from Alolita, user:Logicwiki, user:yuvipanda and Tomasz Finc. Initial feedback was positive. Community discussion and improvement pending.

The Problem

• A user cannot easily switch to a language of choice if the interface is of a foreign language
• The language selection list currently has 250+ languages with no logical ordering ( bug 33493 ).
• Mobile devices have significantly less screen space and cannot accommodate large amounts of information

Design Proposals and ideas

• /Proposal 1 by user:planemad at Gnunify, Pune - February 2012
• /Proposal 2 at DevCamp, Bangalore - November 2012