Mei Huang
20 March 2026
Product
Translation is the easy part. Layout, search and data entry are where bilingual products really get hard.
Many B2B products in Taiwan and Hong Kong need to work equally well in English and Traditional Chinese. Here is what we have learned building them.
Plan for it from day one
- Keep all text out of the code from the first sprint
- Test layouts with both languages, since text lengths differ a lot
- Make search work across both scripts
- Decide which fields customers can enter in either language
