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Love all the little details. Some favorites: * Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the conten

Love all the little details. Some favorites: * Clicking 'expand' button on any dialog (T&C) expanded the dialog to cover the page but doesn't expand the contents to match * Tiny flag icons to select country * The age slider that went from 0-180 years and didn't update as you slid it (fun on a trackpad) * number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time * utterly ambiguous human verification instructions

kvirani 5y ago
My current real world frustration: a date picker for birthdate which starts in current year and I believe the native selector in Android/Chrome doesn't let you select a year. You hit left arrow to go down month by month. Am I crazy and did I miss this? Ive seen it a few times now!
- httpsterio 5y ago
  Usually you can hit the year number and it'll let you skip whole years. But yeah.
  - Pxtl 5y ago
    iirc the Android 4 date picker had a microscopic hit-area on the date where, if clicked, would display a year-key-in dialog. I don't know if newer ones have this. I hate date pickers so much that I use the Google Assistant in all its hellish, buggy glory to create appointments for my calendar on my phone.
    - mleonhard 5y ago
      Google's UX is slightly broken and nobody in the organization cares to fix it. Their date & time pickers are good examples of this. Flutter provides separate Material date picker [0] and time picker widgets [1], but no date-time picker widget that displays the selected DateTime and lets the user change the date or time. When I asked Flutter team for one 2 years ago, their UX person refused to add it, saying that because it's not in the Material Design Spec [2] [3] that it doesn't belong in the Flutter widget library. Flutter does implement the excellent iOS DateTime picker [3]. [0] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showDatePicker.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showDatePicker.html [1] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showTimePicker.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showTimePicker.html [2] https://material.io/components/date-pickers https://material.io/components/date-pickers [3] https://material.io/components/time-pickers https://material.io/components/time-pickers [4] https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino
      - 6510 5y ago
        Everything works with week numbers in my job. It makes sense because everyone is on a 4 week schedule.
      - wruza 5y ago
        I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. I can type this entire paragraph faster than picking a date with any goddamn date picker. A little faster I can type: - 27 jun 16:30 - sunday 16:30 - tomorrow 16:30 Before I switched to using siri, I often typed that into notes or telegram saved messages and then tapped on it to create an event. The amount of bullshit ui developers like to introduce is unbearable. And now for some mind-blowing ui: - team building fri 7pm weekly remind 1h, 30min add coworkers
- 411111111111111 5y ago
  There usually is a way, but it's often non obvious. I.e. the picker might have a header like July without any visual offset, but clicking could still switch the view to the year picker. I usually just try various stuff and I can't remember a single time where I didn't find an option eventually, but they're sometimes well hidden
- TranquilMarmot 5y ago
  I wonder if there's a way to get the datepicker to open on a specific date... find the median age of all users and open the datepicker in that year haha
  - reaperducer 5y ago
    It's actually quite easy. I did just such a thing earlier this week.
karrotwaltz 5y ago
Also if you select the first choice for birth date you get April 1st
romwell 5y ago
>number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time You might enjoy the Phone Number UI from Hell[1], and Google's implementation of it[2] [1]https://qz.com/679782/ https://qz.com/679782/ [2]https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png
wongarsu 5y ago
Flag icons in grayscale. My country's flag is three equally large horizontal bars, just like 12 other nations (and a lot more if you count variations like little insignia etc). [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband_(flag) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband_(flag)
- mjhagen 5y ago
  I'm one of those 12 too, I just went to dev tools and searched for my country's 2 char code.
  - Gaelan 5y ago
    They're in alphabetical order, which helps a bit.
    - mdaniel 5y ago
      Given the objective of this page, that's a bug :-) They should be sorted by the date of their founding, or by total miles of railway or something
plebianRube 5y ago
I was dying with laughter. Love the helpful chat box which takes forever to drop, the helpful popup telling you to hurry up with an option to lock it where you'd expect an ok, and the expand button where you would expect the close button. But captchas were truly the icing on the cake. The only thing missing would have been a 'subscribe to our newsletter' feature 2 seconds after each page loads.
- gota 5y ago
  I almost died laughing, too When I slid the marker to about half the maximum length and the slider showed me 95 years old I cracked
  - neycoda 5y ago
    It's future-proofing for the next 1000 years.
actinium226 5y ago
My solution for the age slider was to just accept whatever age it gave me and then select birth year to match
cube00 5y ago
The way the final verification overlay window was just a little too small so you had to scroll one line to get the final set of check boxes was a very nice touch.
- Doxin 5y ago
  You had to scroll up too. Diabolical.

kvirani 5y ago

My current real world frustration: a date picker for birthdate which starts in current year and I believe the native selector in Android/Chrome doesn't let you select a year. You hit left arrow to go down month by month. Am I crazy and did I miss this? Ive seen it a few times now!

httpsterio 5y ago
Usually you can hit the year number and it'll let you skip whole years. But yeah.
- Pxtl 5y ago
  iirc the Android 4 date picker had a microscopic hit-area on the date where, if clicked, would display a year-key-in dialog. I don't know if newer ones have this. I hate date pickers so much that I use the Google Assistant in all its hellish, buggy glory to create appointments for my calendar on my phone.
  - mleonhard 5y ago
    Google's UX is slightly broken and nobody in the organization cares to fix it. Their date & time pickers are good examples of this. Flutter provides separate Material date picker [0] and time picker widgets [1], but no date-time picker widget that displays the selected DateTime and lets the user change the date or time. When I asked Flutter team for one 2 years ago, their UX person refused to add it, saying that because it's not in the Material Design Spec [2] [3] that it doesn't belong in the Flutter widget library. Flutter does implement the excellent iOS DateTime picker [3]. [0] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showDatePicker.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showDatePicker.html [1] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showTimePicker.html https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showTimePicker.html [2] https://material.io/components/date-pickers https://material.io/components/date-pickers [3] https://material.io/components/time-pickers https://material.io/components/time-pickers [4] https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino
    - 6510 5y ago
      Everything works with week numbers in my job. It makes sense because everyone is on a 4 week schedule.
    - wruza 5y ago
      I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not. I can type this entire paragraph faster than picking a date with any goddamn date picker. A little faster I can type: - 27 jun 16:30 - sunday 16:30 - tomorrow 16:30 Before I switched to using siri, I often typed that into notes or telegram saved messages and then tapped on it to create an event. The amount of bullshit ui developers like to introduce is unbearable. And now for some mind-blowing ui: - team building fri 7pm weekly remind 1h, 30min add coworkers
411111111111111 5y ago
There usually is a way, but it's often non obvious. I.e. the picker might have a header like July without any visual offset, but clicking could still switch the view to the year picker. I usually just try various stuff and I can't remember a single time where I didn't find an option eventually, but they're sometimes well hidden
TranquilMarmot 5y ago
I wonder if there's a way to get the datepicker to open on a specific date... find the median age of all users and open the datepicker in that year haha
- reaperducer 5y ago
  It's actually quite easy. I did just such a thing earlier this week.

karrotwaltz 5y ago

Also if you select the first choice for birth date you get April 1st

romwell 5y ago

>number input for house number that required clicking on the arrows to change it one at a time You might enjoy the Phone Number UI from Hell[1], and Google's implementation of it[2] [1]https://qz.com/679782/ https://qz.com/679782/ [2]https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png

wongarsu 5y ago

Flag icons in grayscale. My country's flag is three equally large horizontal bars, just like 12 other nations (and a lot more if you count variations like little insignia etc). [1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband_(flag) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triband_(flag)

mjhagen 5y ago
I'm one of those 12 too, I just went to dev tools and searched for my country's 2 char code.
- Gaelan 5y ago
  They're in alphabetical order, which helps a bit.
  - mdaniel 5y ago
    Given the objective of this page, that's a bug :-) They should be sorted by the date of their founding, or by total miles of railway or something

plebianRube 5y ago

I was dying with laughter. Love the helpful chat box which takes forever to drop, the helpful popup telling you to hurry up with an option to lock it where you'd expect an ok, and the expand button where you would expect the close button. But captchas were truly the icing on the cake. The only thing missing would have been a 'subscribe to our newsletter' feature 2 seconds after each page loads.

gota 5y ago
I almost died laughing, too When I slid the marker to about half the maximum length and the slider showed me 95 years old I cracked
- neycoda 5y ago
  It's future-proofing for the next 1000 years.

actinium226 5y ago

My solution for the age slider was to just accept whatever age it gave me and then select birth year to match

cube00 5y ago

The way the final verification overlay window was just a little too small so you had to scroll one line to get the final set of check boxes was a very nice touch.

Doxin 5y ago
You had to scroll up too. Diabolical.