On Dec 17, 2007 12:15 PM, Bryan Minihan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
An interesting discussion of this issue is at http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/selecting_country_names_in_forms/ . Discussed in the comments is another strategy for country dropdowns: if you're willing to put in some programming time and possibly buy a dataset, you can use the "most likely" method based not on the aggregate audience but on an individual IP address / country lookup. If my browser says I'm in the US, I see that at the top of the list; if it says I'm in Japan, I see that instead. Or (again from the 456bereastreet conversation) let the user type their country into a field, with type-ahead and error checking as desired: http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/index.php/2006/forms-inputting-country-names/ . Jennifer Berk ________________________________________________________________ *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
