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.
 * 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
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile-ULS-Bangalore-DevCamp-design.png