Finally, I can find the month I want!
Now to enter my phone number…
Finally! A worthy opponent!
Probably forgot to check the default for sort order. I’ve done that before.
Instead of asking “why?” consider asking “why not?”
Imagine being able to autocomplete months.
You’re right, that is an easier question to answer!
Speaking as a UX designer, probably because some “product manager” decided it was too expensive to override the auto- sort that was applied before the designer was brought in to “pretty things up.”
There is no tone of bitterness in my comment, honestly there isn’t.
Im sorry. Im a front end dev, i wish i could make everything pretty, but theres just too many meetings and too much process for everything to get much done.
Haha! Exactly! I do some coding, too, but I can’t think like a UXer and a dev at the same time.
It’s the “making it pretty” part that makes me bitter. That is the LEAST part of what we do.
It’s like asking an architect to come in and fix the building after it’s already mostly built. Bad PMs insist on seeing us like interior decorators, but we are primarily architects.
Obviously it’s a an act of protest so the months are officially remade to be alphabetically ordered.
I once got a user requirement that specifically say all drop down lists must be sorted alphabetically
eight, five, four, nine, one, seven, six, ten, three, two … ew
They are probably reusing a component that happens to sort its entries alphabetically, since that is most commonly the expected behaviour. If the form is configured in a CMS, whoever built it might not even know it’s happening and has entered the data properly, but it gets resorted in the presentation layer. It’s also not impossible that the behaviour of the component has changed at some point and this particular case didn’t have test coverage or wasn’t actually part of the specification.
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Why even make a dropdown? It would be quicker just to type a number
Months are an unnecessary and leaky abstraction, they don’t need to be taken seriously.
I agree with this programmer.
Unpopular opinion: the person in charge of that menu hates everyone. :)
thats neither unpopular not an opinion. that’s a well-known fact
My birthday still lands in the middle of the year. Poor me
