I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it).
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I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it). Must be one of those impossible #UX problems. Or maybe just something that people think is easy that's actually quite hard to get right.
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I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it). Must be one of those impossible #UX problems. Or maybe just something that people think is easy that's actually quite hard to get right.
@eloquence The ones I despise are the ones someone has placed to record birthdays that don't allow manual entry. So lots of scrolling and paging, when a keyboard would be simple.
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I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it). Must be one of those impossible #UX problems. Or maybe just something that people think is easy that's actually quite hard to get right.
I hate all calendar widgets myself and whenever I build an internal tool, it's just a text field that takes ISO-8601. But trusting users to actually type out the date themselves seems impossible.
(Judging from the amount of days wasted adding support for $users-favorite-date-format; people are very opinionated on date formats)
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I hate all calendar widgets myself and whenever I build an internal tool, it's just a text field that takes ISO-8601. But trusting users to actually type out the date themselves seems impossible.
(Judging from the amount of days wasted adding support for $users-favorite-date-format; people are very opinionated on date formats)
@lordbowlich @eloquence it always seems to me that calendar GUIs inherit all the confusions of dates generally - that they're semi-regular but also sort of arbitrary boxes of time, that there's a hierarchy of 5 or 6 boxes which can overlap, that you have to know whether a range is inclusive, that there are a million formats mostly riddled with ambiguity, that it all varies geographically and with culture...
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I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it). Must be one of those impossible #UX problems. Or maybe just something that people think is easy that's actually quite hard to get right.
@eloquence The problem is not UX, the problem is time itself.
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@lordbowlich @eloquence it always seems to me that calendar GUIs inherit all the confusions of dates generally - that they're semi-regular but also sort of arbitrary boxes of time, that there's a hierarchy of 5 or 6 boxes which can overlap, that you have to know whether a range is inclusive, that there are a million formats mostly riddled with ambiguity, that it all varies geographically and with culture...
They always have a bias towards recent date -- need to pick a date in the next couple weeks? No problem.
God forbid you want to schedule something out in a year. Or need to select a date back in last century. Be prepared to click forever.
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@eloquence The problem is not UX, the problem is time itself.
