Interface
Launch your interface in Turkish with every term settled first
Your users get to know your product through a few words on menus, buttons and settings. We settle the Turkish term behind each of those words first, with the reasoning on record, and then translate your interface to match. Where Turkish has no agreed term yet, we tell you and explain what we recommend.
What it covers
Interface is our product for software and user interfaces. It covers the work usually called software localization, done terms-first.
End-user software
The screens, menus and settings your customers use every day.
Custom-built software
Interfaces built for your company or for your clients.
Apps
The screens, menus and buttons your users see in your apps.
Operating systems
System menus, settings and system screens.
Error messages and alerts
The short messages users read when something goes wrong or needs their attention.
Notifications
The short messages that tell users about a change or something they need to do.
Where meaning gets lost in an interface
Short labels, no room to explain
A label is often one or two words. If a Turkish user misreads it, there is no sentence nearby to put them right. So the term has to be settled before it reaches the screen. The reasoning lives in the term record; the screen shows only the word.
One concept, one name, everywhere
If your settings menu, your help center and your documentation each use a different Turkish word for one feature, users have to work out whether they mean the same thing. A concept should keep its interface name on every help page and in every document.
Borrowed English and sound-alikes
When a concept has no agreed Turkish term yet, teams often keep the English word or use a Turkish word that copies its sound. Some sound-alikes already mean something else in Turkish, as the example below shows.
What you get
Terms first
We research the concepts in your product, settle their Turkish equivalents and record why we chose each one. The decisions go into a glossary and a termbase that your teams and translators share.
Then the interface translation
We translate your interface text to match, so each concept keeps one Turkish name on every screen.
Unsettled terms, clearly marked
Where Turkish has no settled term yet, we say so and mark ours as a proposal, so your team knows which words are established and which are our suggestion.
One term, on screen
Here is one of our approved records, “agent”, as it would appear in the menu and on a button of an AI product.
English:
Sound-alike
Turkish:
Carries the meaning
A menu that reads “Ajanlar” would suggest spies to Turkish users.
- English Context
- Software and AI: an AI agent, a program that carries out tasks on a user’s behalf.
- Reasoning
- An agent is whoever acts. In Turkish, “ajan” suggests a spy, while “eylemci”, from eylem (action), keeps the meaning.
Solutions that use Interface
- Software & appsFrom the interface to help pages and tutorials
If your help pages and tutorial videos go into Turkish along with the interface, this solution brings Interface, Text and Video together around one set of Turkish terms.
Tell us about your software
Which product, which platforms, which languages? A few lines are enough. We’ll tell you plainly what we can do.
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