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A “Suggest-As-You-Type” React Component to Help Users Succeed.
Rethinking a bad user experience to help you and your customers win!
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9 min readFeb 17, 2020
Forms, forms, forms. The web is full of them. For every potential sale, flight booking or new account, someone is filling out a form. Someone, who might become your customer.
Why turn them away with a bad experience?
Thinking about the experience.
In the real world, when you ask a person what country they’re from, you wouldn’t hold up a sheet of paper with a list of 200+ countries for them to choose from.
If I say, “I’m an American,” you’d probably figure out I’m from the United States. Why shouldn’t your web app do the same?
Yet, a common form field we run into is “Country”, displayed as a long list of country names that your customers have to scroll through. A tedious and bad experience that we’ll set out to solve here.
