Earlier he was the CEO and Co-founder of Polar ( acquired by Google in 2014) and the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Bagcheck ( acquired by Twitter in 2011). Luke is currently a Product Director at Google. Once this is clear, I will put my fields as following:Īddress line 1 (This is the popular way we Indian start writing our address, free text)Īddress line 2 (is it really necessary, if yes, make these labels specific like Street details, area, landmark, etc.Webstock ’16: Luke Wroblewski – Screen Time from Webstock on Vimeo. So obviously I cannot select state based on zip code, or I may have to look for such services or develop in-house to support my thought, so without such services, max I can apply filter to minimize the selection options in state drop-down menu. The final three digits are assigned to individual post offices. The second digit indicates the sub-region, and the third digit indicates the sorting district within the region. The first digit of the PIN code indicates the region (total 9 regions, each covering min 3 and max 12 states). Now first understand how zip functions in India:

If it is limited to single country, for example India, I will keep country as default selected and design as following: That’s why I must probe which countries my app will be supporting. Once again keep it in mind that the address format not necessarily same in all countries.

If you are not supporting more than one country, best way to show the country default selected, as Luke shown in his solution. (If for some reason Americans are unable to write their own address properly, just make a US specific form when USA is chosen as country, and let anybody else fill out the simple name/address/country form) Why make it more complicated than that? This should work perfectly for any type of address, and easy to use. How do you suppose a Norwegian address on this form, should be forced into these fields? And when the 'city','postal code (or zip)', 'province(or state)' fields are randomly assigned some of these values, how should you print the label in the correct order? Not only does splitting address input into that many fields cause problems for the user trying to force their address into a form made for another country, but how should the address data be reformatted into a correct address? You certainly don't need all these fields for a Norwegian address. Saying you 'need' these fields frightens me.

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