Nike has a brand new website and they’ve made a few navigational changes along the way. For starters, it appears that Nike is now using geolocation to detect the location of the user’s browser. This means Nike is no longer …
Saw on Daring Fireball that Microsoft is previewing its new global website (link). Naturally, I wondered “Where the heck did the global gateway go?” It used to be in the header. But no more. The global gateway has been demoted …
If you haven’t visited the Noun Project yet, take a moment and drop by. It’s a great initiative to provide open source icons. All you have to do is provide attribution according to the Creative Commons license. I noticed recently …
I was happy to see that Philips launched a new (and improved) global gateway recently. Below is a screen grab of the old gateway, as seen on the home page: The menu was well positioned in the upper right corner, …
There’s a good article on Brainsparks about how rarely users get around to changing their default computer settings. “Less than 5% of the users we surveyed had changed any settings at all.” This statistic has great relevance to web globalization. …
Payroll services company ADP demonstrates that you don’t necessarily have to choose between using a flag icon or using a globe icon on your global gateway. As shown below, the company uses both: And here is the Brazil home page: …
One of the many things I love about global gateways is that I never stop discovering new ones. Here are notes on a few gateways I’ve stumbled across over the past few weeks. Let’s begin with a gateway that exhibits a …
IBM, much to my chagrin, has used a lengthy pull-down menu as its global gateway for years. Here’s what it looks like: There are two problems with this menu, the first being that web users in Sweden, Turkey and other …
I was happy to discover recently that a toy that I loved as a child — Mr. Potato Head — is still alive and well. Not only that, but Mr. Potato Head is the star attraction on the Hasbro global gateway: …
3M finished in the top 10 of the 2011 Web Globalization Report Card. Its global gateway strategy is one reason why it scored so highly. But what’s particularly impressive about 3M is how the company has reused its global gateway across …