The unseen cost of flawed RTL—why I built LayoutGuard
After years in localization/QA for global products, I kept seeing the same quiet failure: RTL display bugs that look minor but cost trust, conversions, and launches. Generic QA missed them; automation couldn’t read the nuance.
I founded LayoutGuard to give teams a clear, measurable standard for Arabic UI quality. Not “best effort”—a repeatable guardrail you can ship against.
Exclusivity & standard: personal oversight
When you hire LayoutGuard, you get a proven methodology personally executed and overseen by me—not delegated to juniors or non-native reviewers. That’s how we keep signal high and noise low.
The Guardrail System
- Ruleset v1.0 – A practical, battle-tested standard for flawless RTL/Arabic display: directionality, mirroring, LTR “islands” (URLs/emails/codes), numerals by market, punctuation, dates, currency, truncation/overflow, forms typing UX, and display-level a11y.
- P-Severity Matrix (P1–P4) – A clear, shared language for risk (from blockers to nice-to-haves) so engineering knows exactly what to fix first.
- Evidence Pack – Each finding ships with annotated screenshots and HTML/lang/dir snippets so devs can fix fast and correctly.
Deliverables you receive
- 1-page audit summary & risk
- CSV fix-list (dev-ready, prioritized)
- TermBase v1.0
- Style Guide v0.9
- Evidence Pack
- Gate report
Meet the specialist behind LayoutGuard
Jasmina Oukdeova, Founder & RTL Specialist
I’m a Czech–Syrian RTL/Arabic display specialist based in Prague.
For the past few years I’ve focused on one thing: making Arabic and RTL interfaces look and feel native—not mirrored afterthoughts. I built LayoutGuard to give EU product teams a clear release gate for ar-XX locales: a ruleset that removes guesswork, a severity model that maps design bugs to business risk, and evidence that lets developers fix fast.
I work hands-on on every audit—scoping screens, applying the Ruleset v1.0 and P-Severity matrix, and assembling the evidence pack (annotated screenshots + HTML/lang/dir snippets). The goal is simple: a UI Arabic users trust at first glance.
Why teams choose LayoutGuard
Actionable findings, not guesswork—screenshots and simple fix steps your team can ship.