Asking for a date of birth (2013)
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Asking for a date of birth (2013)
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#4In the three button design, what about splitting the year? For example 19/20 0-9/0-9
You wouldn't have to list off all of the years, and no typing which could be helpful for people with disability or mobility concerns.
Re: Asking for a date of birth (2013)
#5One thing I always felt was an anti-pattern was in any input where months are numbers they don't explicitly mention in an adjacent label the name of the month. Besides the US/UK order confusion, you'd be surprised how often people think August is the 7th month of the year.
Re: Asking for a date of birth (2013)
#6One thing I always felt was an anti-pattern was in any input where months are numbers they don't explicitly mention in an adjacent label the name of the month. Besides the US/UK order confusion, you'd be surprised how often people think August is the 7th month of the year.
Must be software engineers.
Re: Asking for a date of birth (2013)
#7One thing I always felt was an anti-pattern was in any input where months are numbers they don't explicitly mention in an adjacent label the name of the month. Besides the US/UK order confusion, you'd be surprised how often people think August is the 7th month of the year.
I have to take off a shoe when it gets to the tail end months of the year.
Re: Asking for a date of birth (2013)
#8The one I have seen that I think was the best is a combo of both. Not a web developer so not sure the actual name but it was a text field that filters. So when you click in the text field it does the year drop down but also accepts standard text input. If you then type in 197 it then only shows 1970-1979 in the drop down.
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#9That was pretty light on details. Why havent they tested a date picker widget or used native date pickers on ios/android?
Re: Asking for a date of birth (2013)
#10That was pretty light on details. Why havent they tested a date picker widget or used native date pickers on ios/android?
I will take a wild guess that they try to only use Web APIs that works everywhere and are consistent.