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This is relevant perhaps 10% of the time. The other 90%, the devs have absolutely no idea how to actually perform the task the user of the software is trying to

This is relevant perhaps 10% of the time. The other 90%, the devs have absolutely no idea how to actually perform the task the user of the software is trying to do, don't talk to customers, don't dogfood it, often don't even understand the industry, and the result is a horrible UI which forces people to severely adjust their existing processes to fit the software. Then if course the devs complain about "the stupid users." To this day 99% of address forms expect me to find my state from a drop down list of 50 entries plus DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, etc. instead of simply typing in the two letter abbreviation.

BeFlatXIII 5y ago
Not to mention international address forms which expect you to scroll all the way to U for Brits and Americans. I understand the the alphabetical listing is the most internally-consistent way to display to the users, but either putting duplicate entries for the most popular countries at the top of the list or providing a text field that suggests the normalized country as you type ought to be the go-to, not a purely alphabetic dropdown menu.