Proper Planning

By planning for extra cultures and languages during the earliest phases of development and production your UI designers will build the various forms and screens that take in to account the defining characteristics of non-native languages.
Shortsightedness

Projects suffer post-launch issues because designers, artists and developers bake-in or hard-code key user experience aspects of the app that make changes non-trivial later in the development life cycle.
Regression Bugs

Inadequate upfront planning and diligence by designers and developers introduce subtle and not-so-subtle regression bugs into a well-polished and stable product.
Internationalization

Localization isn't just changing the language from English to Spanish and calling it a day. Local legal and cultural requirements need to be met to be a success.
Increased Costs

Later life-cycle costs increase, and post-launch development velocity decreases, due to the compounding effects of early shortcuts stemming from "we don't know what we don't know" about future requirements.

Whenever I have worked on a B2B or B2C software product, be it game, app, website or desktop application, that was localized after it was launched and in the hands of end-users had regression bugs and extensive unplanned changes to the UI leading to increased costs for programming, UI design, UX changes, and all of the required extra testing and deployment configuration.

Reasons for cost increases

Increased time for QA
Launch delays due to redesigns
Regression bugs
Architectural redesigns
Art asset changes
User interface changes

Compliance Issues

Financial data
Medical data
Data protection
Security breaches

Cultural issues

Names
Salutations
Currency
Telephone numbers
Street addresses
Number formatting
Idioms
String Comparison
Time Zones

Problem areas

User interface
User experience
Art assets
Audio assets
User input

Example of an issue

Strings change size in translation

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Bad things that developers & designers do

Embedding text directly in code

Concatenating strings

Reusing the same string but in two different contexts

Emedding text directly in artwork

Assuming all text in all languages will be of equal length

Pixel based-layouts

Hard-coded units of measurement

Failure to test all locales & languages

Delaying implementation of localized resources

Language Issues

Sort orders
String concatenation
Average word length
String comparisons
Punctuation

What are regression bugs?

New bugs that appear in what was previously stable code, user interfaces or parts of the user experience as the code, art assets, user interface and processes are changed to permit localization. In an extreme case localization can also affect your back-end servers if there are regional requirements due to local laws.

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Localization

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Proper Planning

Shortsightedness

Regression Bugs

Internationalization

Increased Costs

Reasons for cost increases

Compliance Issues

Cultural issues

Problem areas

Example of an issue

Bad things that developers & designers do

Language Issues

What are regression bugs?

Hardware

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Communications

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