Elizabeth, I agree the idea to it a no-brainier. Put countries in alpha order AND put the most commonly used ones at the top.
> Did someone seriously suggest that you put some countries at the top *instead*? Yes and the web has many examples. This list is also littered with people suggesting that you should not place countries in alpha order, but should order them by region. The tests that we ran for this client caught many more things. This is the advantage of using remote usability testing, it is cheap, fast, high n, and allows you to test internationally. James http://blog.feralabs.com 2009/2/5 Elizabeth Buie <[email protected]> > At 3:31 AM +0000 2/5/09, James Page wrote: > > >If you want to be clever > >place the top 5 countries at the top of the list as well, but make > >sure that the country is listed alphabetically as well. > > [snip] > > >When the country is promoted to the > >top of the list it adds on average 15 seconds to peoples search > >time, and can lead to task failure. > > James, I am amazed that this had to be tested. I consider it a no-brainer. > Put countries in alpha order AND put the most commonly used ones at the > top. > Did someone seriously suggest that you put some countries at the top > *instead*? > > Elizabeth, shaking her head > -- > Elizabeth Buie > Luminanze Consulting, LLC > tel +1.301.943.4168 > http://www.luminanze.com > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
