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title: "Localization Design - Air Market"
description: "A design built in one language tends to break in another: words get longer, reading runs the other way, and dates and numbers look different. This helps you design for that before you ship somewhere…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/localization-design"
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[Air Market](/) / [Design](/category/design) / Localization Design

Skill by [MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

# Localization Design

Ready your design for languages that are not the one you built in

## What this does

A design built in one language tends to break in another: words get longer, reading runs the other way, and dates and numbers look different. This helps you design for that before you ship somewhere new. Reach for it when your product is going beyond a single locale. Writing the actual words is a different skill.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Design for text that gets longer in translation
- Mirror a layout for right-to-left reading
- Handle formats that change by locale

## Information

**Localization Design at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [MC Dean](/@owl-listener) |
| Category | [Design](/category/design) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 5 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [Owl-Listener/designer-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/design-systems/skills/localization-design) |
| GitHub stars | 2,144 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Localization Design and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Localization Design's check was run against**

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| --- | --- |
| Commit | 20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e |
| Content hash | 71462688bf060c41efc3988f139438e12dbfed8bd9ca8d279bf2d9de12e48ebf |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/blob/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/design-systems/skills/localization-design/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Localization Design](/security/localization-design)

## About Localization Design

This covers designing for multiple languages, writing directions, and cultural contexts, including text expansion, right-to-left mirroring, and locale formats.

Use it when shipping beyond one locale. For the words themselves, use ux-writing in designer-toolkit.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Localization Design safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Localization Design and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 20e34c4a587e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/localization-design.

### How do I install Localization Design?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/localization-design on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/design-systems/skills/localization-design. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Design listings](/category/design)
- [Everything by MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/localization-design>