UI/UX
Designing Arabic Interfaces
RTL layout, type, icons and bilingual screens that do not feel like a mirrored afterthought.
9 lessons11 minIntermediate
Overview
RTL layout, type, icons and bilingual screens that do not feel like a mirrored afterthought.
- 9 lessons
- 11 min
- Intermediate
Curriculum
3 modules
- 1
RTL is a layout
- Start and end, not left and right9 min
- Icons that should not flip9 min
- Numbers, dates and mixed lines9 min
- 2
Type and bilingual screens
- Arabic type size and line height9 min
- Where the English sits9 min
- Mirroring a component on purpose9 min
- 3
Screen lab
Includes hands-on lab- Take one LTR screen9 min
- Rebuild it for Arabic9 min
- Lab: note what must not mirror14 min
Open sources & licenses
This curriculum is an original outline informed by these openly-licensed resources.