ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — The Text-to-text app simplifies a critical step in translation, aligning English text with translations in various languages, ranging from remote to ancient dialects. Previously handled through Excel, this process required a familiar but more adaptable tool. The app was designed to enhance, not replace, existing workflows, creating a faster, more intuitive experience that aligns with the methods people already trust.
Matching English text with the target language before recording is essential. Traditionally, Excel handled this, balancing familiarity with limitations. The app respects the established workflow, offering a speed boost by optimizing what users already know, ultimately improving efficiency without disrupting existing habits.
Auto-match Text seamlessly aligns text from two different language files. This is the first step before audio translation begins.
Translators often already have methods for tackling their challenges. Understanding these methods allows design to enhance them without overwhelming users. The Text-to-text app focuses on meaningful impact, supporting translators in areas that benefit most from a streamlined process, respecting the complexity of their work.
Custom Quotation builds on the familiar methods people already use, allowing them to define and manage quotation marks across different languages. This helps match accurately as many pieces of text as possible between languages before a human being is needed to take a look at it.
Text-to-text development is a collaborative journey with daily stakeholder engagement, usability testing, and ongoing feedback. We reached the MVP through close partnerships, and working alongside the product manager I helped align expectations with practical outcomes, fostering a cycle of refinement to ensure the app's value remains high everyone.
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Speed and efficiency drive the Text-to-text app's design, especially with the vast number of languages scheduled for translation in the coming years. Key metrics, including misclick rates, time on task, and user errors, highlight improvements in text-matching speed and accuracy. Insights from navigation versus search behaviors further refine performance, supporting the organization's commitment to delivering translated content to underserved communities.
Voice Configuration allows people to configure whether their audio project will have a single narrator or multiple voices. This feature alone, informed by our performance data, was one of the decisions made to optimize the experience.
A collaborative development process brings the Text-to-text app to life. My familiarity with coding supports smooth interactions with engineers, fostering a shared goal: crafting a successful final product that benefits from blending design and engineering expertise.
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Effective design reaches beyond the Figma screens into real-world applications. JSON design tokens ensure seamless design-developer integration, smoothing out implementation challenges to create a cohesive final product.
These design tokens bridge the gap between design and code.
Streamlined task focus is key to the app's functionality. Error Flagging provides swift issue identification and enables team members to communicate effectively during text alignment, minimizing delays and keeping tasks on track.
Error Flagging feature enables communication between peers to address and resolve issues quickly.
Data insights led to locking text access once recording begins, ensuring a smooth, uninterrupted workflow and preventing disruption during critical stages.
Access to the entire text of either language is locked once the audio recording starts, to ensure and maintain the integrity of the audio capture.
Joining the team brought an eagerness to improve existing processes, balanced with a respect for established methods. Working alongside colleagues familiar with the users, design improvements evolved to honor the organization's unique context. The experience highlighted the value of openness and respect, resulting in meaningful design contributions recognized by the team as integral to recent organizational successes.
