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Great write-up, concise enough but not too dry. I generally agree with dropdowns being overused, but this seems too much to me: > Picking a date from dropdown
by ikurei 7y ago
Great write-up, concise enough but not too dry.
I generally agree with dropdowns being overused, but this seems too much to me:
> Picking a date from dropdowns is the worst. If I ever do this, then I’ve really failed as a UX designer.
Really? On a laptop, native dropdowns use keyboard input as search, so using tab (granted, not everyone knows this) I can generally enter my age almost as if I was writing it.
On mobile, scrolling through the iOS dropdown control is fine, more comfortable than typing. Scrolling 30 options back to enter my age is the worst part, and getting worse every year, but it isn't that bad.
- baddox 7y agoYeah, I pretty much disagree with the author when it comes to something like inputing your birthday. For something like hotel stays or airplane tickets, it does make sense to show a full calendar to give a sense of the range between two dates, but for inputing a birthday I'll take the "9 taps" required to fill out the three fields on mobile. I think it's going to end up faster than alternating between tapping to select a field and typing to enter the value.