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Would be nice if they'd get around to developing a standardised calendar-based date picker component for, say, appointment booking at some point.

Feels like a huge gap in their offerings.

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IIRC this is something they’ve investigated for years, but the prototypes didn’t stand up to a simple day/month/year input group in usability testing. Date pickers are hard to do well!

I really dislike calendar inputs, they are almost always confusing to use. Their inconsistencies moreover lead to further confusion as each calendar seems to be very different.

While we’re discussing datepickers, the new iOS one annoys me. When I have to put in my birthday, it defaults to the current date and wraps any value past that back to today. So I put in my day and month of birth, have it wrap back to today and then start again by setting the year first.

I assume this is configurable and developers just forget to set it, but it’s a weird default.

It's on their backlog: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issu...

Would definitely be nice to have

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