<story><title>Redesigning the country selector</title><url>http://baymard.com/labs/country-selector</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly.&lt;p&gt;For those of us in Canada, typing &quot;ca&quot; should probably rank countries that start with the &quot;ca&quot; prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with &quot;ca&quot;, finally followed by countries that just happen to contain &quot;ca&quot;.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t see much use in showing &quot;United States&quot; as the first match for a user who has typed &quot;c&quot; and &quot;a&quot;.&lt;p&gt;The same problem exists for the prefix: &quot;uni&quot;. The list in that case is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  United States
  United Kingdom
  Réunion
  Tanzania, United Republic of
  Tunisia
  United Arab Emirates
  United States Minor Outlying Islands&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ajankovic</author><text>That seams as a minor mistake compared to not be able to type the name of the country in my native language. I guess that is not so obvious to the native English speaking users but it&apos;s the required feature if you are considering usability improvement as a goal of redesign.</text></comment>
<story><title>Redesigning the country selector</title><url>http://baymard.com/labs/country-selector</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mmastrac</author><text>While this has a nice UI, it suffers from a ranking system that fails to weight prefixes correctly.&lt;p&gt;For those of us in Canada, typing &quot;ca&quot; should probably rank countries that start with the &quot;ca&quot; prefix first, followed by countries that have a word that starts with &quot;ca&quot;, finally followed by countries that just happen to contain &quot;ca&quot;.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t see much use in showing &quot;United States&quot; as the first match for a user who has typed &quot;c&quot; and &quot;a&quot;.&lt;p&gt;The same problem exists for the prefix: &quot;uni&quot;. The list in that case is:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  United States
  United Kingdom
  Réunion
  Tanzania, United Republic of
  Tunisia
  United Arab Emirates
  United States Minor Outlying Islands&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ibelimb</author><text>Perhaps adding a geo-ip look up to help weight the results would make this better? None the less this is a huge improvement then a drop-down with every known country.</text></comment>