I can't tell you how many times I've had to build a country drop-down, and I've come to prefer "most likely selection first, with alphabetical following". For a truly global company/site where people are likely to be from everywhere (and/or you don't want to show bias toward a particular country), I'd probably go with pure alphabetical.
On a side note, we're building a primarily US-based site, and I'm toying with the idea of having someone just enter their postal code in the signup form. From that, we hope to extract the town, state/province and country. I'm wondering about the reliability of smaller country postal codes, but have been working on the assumption that we can get a data feed that's pretty accurate. I believe Google Mail uses something similar, so wonder if anyone has used such a form and if they prefer it over the "enter your city, state/province, zip AND country" forms... Bryan http://www.bryanminihan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Billy Cox Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:47 AM To: IxDA list Subject: [IxDA Discuss] 'Select Country' dropdown In filling out various web forms, I have noticed two interaction standards specifically related to dropdowns in which the user selects their country of residence. 1 -- List is alphabetical (placing United States near the end of the list) 2 -- Most likely selection(s) at the top of the list, with remainder of list alphabetical. Which one would you use and what would influence your decision? Billy Cox Old World Spices [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
