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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 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

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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!

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

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

It's actually quite easy. I did just such a thing earlier this week.

Usually you can hit the year number and it'll let you skip whole years. But yeah.

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.

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

[1] https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/showTimePicker.html

[2] https://material.io/components/date-pickers

[3] https://material.io/components/time-pickers

[4] https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino

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

Everything works with week numbers in my job. It makes sense because everyone is on a 4 week schedule.

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.

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

It's future-proofing for the next 1000 years.

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)

I'm one of those 12 too, I just went to dev tools and searched for my country's 2 char code.

They're in alphabetical order, which helps a bit.

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

>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/

[2]https://i.redd.it/gns5ci5hp2yz.png

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

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.

You had to scroll up too. Diabolical.

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

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