Building Better Country Selects
2 days ago
- #User Experience
- #Web Development
- #UI Design
- Standard country dropdowns have structural limitations like no filtering, alphabetical order ignoring usage, mismatched naming, and hard-to-scan plain text lists.
- A better alternative includes using a modal for better display, smarter sorting heuristics, improved result display, matching on codes and common names, browser hints for user's country, and multiple columns for desktop users.
- Country selection is a search problem, not a menu problem, and modal selects offer a better UX, especially on mobile.