User Interface Pet Peeves
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Ever so often I come across something on a website that just isn’t as optimized as it could be.
Like today, I’m filling out yet another registration form (they really should use OpenID btw) and they require my birthday (for legal reasons). When I click on year, a big drop down box appears… and it starts at the year 1907. Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t know too many 101-year olds who surf the net on a daily basis. I’m sure there’s a handful out there.
But this is just annoying, especially considering that yesterday I filled out a similar form and the years started in the early 80s. I dug that. That seems to be the youngest you want to encourage and scrolling back a big is easy. Scrolling up from 1907, not so much.
Just a note for those of you creating registration forms out there. 