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Redesigning the country selector

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Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by megablast »

maxwell wrote: post #48
mynegation wrote: post #16

My main complaint about old country pickers and this one is non-prioritization of countries in the list. Yes, I understand that this may be a sensitive issue, but how much likely your customer is going to be from Canada than from Cameroon. Or if I start typing 'CA' in this selector, I get American Samoa and Antarctica before Canada! Let alone my old acquaintances Cambodia and Cameroon. Same for Russia - you get Aruba…

Population/GDP would be a good starting point, then it'd be nice to adjust weighting automatically over time based on where the site's visitors are coming from (geolocation and previous choices).

Cool, go for it.

Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by ceol »

thatjoshguy wrote: post #110
Someone wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A reason for not doing that is that it looks ugly to show multiple options for the same country. Another is that that can be confusing. Suppose I want to enter a country whose spelling/native name I am not sure of, and after a few characters, four options remain, three of which are correct, but I do not know that. That can cause a needless google to find out, say, the difference between Liberia, Libya, and Libië.

In this instance it wouldn't look ugly as they are just three different results that could show up in the search.

It would be confusing to the user to give three separate options for the same country and expect them to know they are the same. What it should do is if you type "deuts", it should return

    Germany (Deutschland)
or if you're on a German site and type "germa", it should return

    Deutschland (Germany)
The default/preferred language should be the same as the language of the website, and it should tell the user why it's returning a value that's different than what they're typing.

Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by stuaxo »

mmastrac wrote: post #11

While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly. For those of us in Canada, typing "ca" should probably rank countries that start with the "ca" prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with "ca", finally followed by countries that just happen to contain "ca". I don't see much use in showing "United States" as the first match for a user who has…

Came here to say the same thing, it's annoying United Kingdom not coming top when I'm here + typing Uni...

Re: Redesigning the country selector

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Post by kiloaper »

A few issues. Typing "ire" lists Ireland last with 2 entries not even starting with "ire" above it. That's kind of annoying. More importantly "Ireland" refers to the island, as opposed to the country which is the Republic of Ireland.

Re: Redesigning the country selector

#135

Post by kristiankh »

Update 13 Nov: As many commenters have noted the sorting logic on the original demo wasn't all that "logical".

We've now changed it so the first letters of the country name are ranked higher (e.g. typing "Ca" now returns "Canada" at the top instead of "American Samoa", and "In" returns "India" instead of "United States", and so on) as many of you have suggested.

Thanks for the feedback.

PS: The Smashing Magazine article describing the handling of typos, multiple spelling sequences, synonyms and prioritization can be found here: http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/10/redesigning-...

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