What problem does it solve? Products entering new markets often assume translation is enough, but information density, navigation patterns, color meaning, RTL layout, date formats, trust signals, payment flows, and legal compliance all differ per market. This Skill provides a framework for auditing i18n readiness and planning cultural adaptation so teams avoid expensive retrofitting of localization support. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Cultural Dimension Analysis: Applies frameworks like high/low-context communication, power distance, and uncertainty avoidance to generate testable design hypotheses per market. - RTL and Format Adaptation: Defines what flips and what does not in right-to-left layouts, plus locale-aware handling of dates, numbers, currencies, addresses, names, and pluralization via CLDR rules. - Compliance and Testing: Flags market-specific legal requirements (GDPR, PIPL, CCPA, accessibility laws) and produces localization test plans covering pseudo-localization, linguistic QA, and crowd testing. - Use Case: When a team says "we need to launch in Japan, just translate it," use this Skill to produce a cultural adaptation brief covering text compression, high-context communication patterns, JIS accessibility standards, and an RTL-independent test plan. ## Quick Start Ask the AI to audit your product's localization readiness for a specific target market and produce a cultural adaptation brief.
