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What is the least ambiguous way to select a date range?
I would go with this kind of UI, reasoning:
Users only select the dates that he/she is applying leave for without having to think about first day of leave and first day of work.
Leave balance is not ...
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Should date pickers for meetings offer the ability to schedule a meeting for 0 minutes?
In this case the meeting can act as two things: a reminder to do something that is not constrained by time and a start of something with no clearly defined schedule.
It could also be an oversight; ...
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Should date pickers for meetings offer the ability to schedule a meeting for 0 minutes?
When you think about exactly what the user is choosing, this makes sense (to allow zero minutes).
What you're really doing is asking two questions of the user:
What time do you want to schedule this ...
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Should date pickers for meetings offer the ability to schedule a meeting for 0 minutes?
My answer is why not? Software is designed to enable users. Be cautious of making decisions, particularly ones that constrain users in ways you may not consider. There are many reasons why someone ...
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Date wheel picker - better or worse than a drop down date grid?
When it comes to UI/UX, "better or worse" is very subjective. There is, however, a standard for best practices: cater to your product, users, and target devices. What I mean by this in your situation:
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Date wheel picker - better or worse than a drop down date grid?
Date selection isn't easy...
This has been a peeve of mine for a long time. I've not found a decent calendar widget.
Generally, I prefer calendars to scrollers because:
Using a scroller to select a ...
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Should date pickers for meetings offer the ability to schedule a meeting for 0 minutes?
Should a calculator allow you to add zero to a number? My answer: yes. What's the use case? My answer: it doesn't need a use case. You don't remove a capability that "falls out naturally" and requires ...
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What is the least ambiguous way to select a date range?
I’ve considered the question recently due to travelling and booking hostels. The same problem appears there, since whether you book the night or the day can be confusing indeed.
For usability reasons,...
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Should date pickers for meetings offer the ability to schedule a meeting for 0 minutes?
Any sort of open-house event might be well-served by this approach: people can accept and have a reminder added without it blocking out their calendar. The event may also have an end criterion that's ...
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Should I ask the user to enter their age or their birthday?
Using a slider requires the user to move a pointer back and forth along the line until they get the right age. The range is probably 0-100, and depending on its length, its resolution might be tight. ...
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How to design a good one-line date picker?
If 90% of scenario is covered by Today+10 days, then perhaps something like this could work, without having to worry about Next | Previous or losing your current place.
It takes up more space, but it'...
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UX pattern for two people to agree a date/time
Combine quick input with clarifying comments
It seems a potential solution would be a quick method of input for general availability combined with the option of adding some clarifying comments.
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Default Date for Birthdate
You shouldn't set a default for a birthday. Just as you shouldn't set a default for:
Name
Email
Credit card number
Credit card expiry date
etc.
The line of reasoning goes like this:
Usability
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Is it a good practise to load contents outside of modal?
I have never seen version 2. anywhere and to be honest, it makes no sense as first it's hard to cover all the cases it creates with that way of interaction. If the data input field is the last element ...
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Should I ask the user to enter their age or their birthday?
A standard date-picker is cumbersome, as you note, because you have to click backwards through years or get a gigantic dropdown with 100 options. It also assumes you care about what day of the week ...
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Entering a relative date range (in a report writer)
Circling back after 18 months (!!!), we finally have a design we're going to implement, so sharing it back here to close the loop.
@Monomeeth had a great answer. We didn't have the real estate for ...
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What is the least ambiguous way to select a date range?
The way Airbnb does it is great. When picking you would have the "First day of leave, First day of work" option. And when tapped, the calendar shows in an infinite scroll starting today and onward, ...
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Which date picker is better?
This is a bit of a "Apples to Toboggans" comparison.
Your first date picker with individual year, month/day/year selections is functional and will let you pick any potential date. (We can't tell from ...
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Date wheel picker - better or worse than a drop down date grid?
The value of a grid (aka, calendar view) is it adds the context of the day-of-the-week.
If knowing the day-of-the-week is important, than a calendar picker will provide the user with a better ...
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Should I ask the user to enter their age or their birthday?
Since age accuracy is not very important, you may want to consider the following layout.
I am assuming multi-device experience and I am assuming you want to support ages over 100 (if not, you can ...
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How to design a good one-line date picker?
Have you thought about whether there is a preference for weekends / week days in the selection and highlight vs grey out the sections that are less important?
Concept 1
I think just a simple Next / ...
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How to design a good one-line date picker?
You can tell better but since you mentioned that 90% time the dates will be within next 10 days - I am assuming that the user pretty much starts off with a date in mind, rather than thinking which ...
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Entering a relative date range (in a report writer)
If it was me I would design the interface so that the most common (or useful) choices can be selected with the simple click (or tap) of a button/icon and the less common choices would be accessible ...
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What to do when the user selects an End date less than the Start date of an Event
In general terms the solutions either:
Let the user select an incompatible date
Not let the user select an incompatible date
The first group could let the user know the problem:
Mark the start date ...
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Date or Time From/To
Why mention date or time at all in the title? From and To should be sufficient when combined with showing the little calendar icon.
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Best practice for selecting a recurring event?
Planning of tasks tends to be more contextual than mathematical. What does that mean? It means that you
go to soccer practice every Tuesday,
pay your rent on the last work day of the month,
download ...
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Native date pickers VS Custom date pickers
Native controls usually provide a better user experience (more familiar to the user, better platform specific feature support, etc.), but as you noted that varies across platforms.
A few things to ...
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How display multiple date fields inside a form?
You could use a date range picker in order to have a combined view of start and end date. Also by re arranging the fields you can make the layout more compact and easier to scan
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Which date picker is better?
Which one is better
The one that fits the needs of the particular date better.
Context is everything.
If only the numeric date is important, your first option is nice. If understanding the ...
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Reminder/Alarm time picker - default time?
I feel giving people choices to edit hours, minutes and am/pm is much better option to have in your alarm and for this i think showing current time will be great.
Also, there is much better ...
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