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Mailchimp keeps making rookie mistakes

April 7, 2024October 3, 2023 by John Yunker

I know it appears that I’m out to punish Mailchimp — as I first started calling out its rookie mistakes back in 2021. I am a paid subscriber so I …

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Categories Global By Design, Global Customer Experience (GCX), Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Mailchimp, Software Localization, Translation, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Mailchimp’s curious global gateway misstep

July 30, 2023July 30, 2023 by John Yunker

A little more than a year ago I wrote about Mailchimp’s improved global gateway. Here is what you would have seen in the header back then: And here is the …

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Categories Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Usability

Mailchimp makes a subtle but important global improvement

May 8, 2022 by John Yunker

Last year, I noted that Mailchimp had begun its global expansion with a few rookie mistakes. Mailchimp was using its super-header to announce support for multiple languages: The globe icon …

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Categories Global By Design, Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Software Localization, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

Mailchimp begins going global (and makes a few rookie mistakes)

June 23, 2021 by John Yunker

As a Mailchimp user I was intrigued to be greeted by this header recently: I clicked on the link and found the following five languages: Not many languages, but a …

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Categories Global By Design, Global gateway fail, Global navigation, Languages, Usability, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

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