this @instagram date picker slider has some really terrible UX I really dislike spinny selector UIs where the spinnies have "carryover" like this because that's not how anyone actually uses them and it's always confusing, esp for dates since months have different #s of days
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at the very least they should not have the "31" up there come to think of it, this part might actually be Android's fault, though it's still Instagram's fault for choosing a carryover spinner UI for a case where the user is going to enter something exactly once
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(spinner UIs with carryover basically only make sense when you want to have something that you can shift around locally, like an event being planned in the future)
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Anyone know if this carryover behavior is default for spinner-mode datepickers in Android?
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Oh to clarify when I said "nobody uses them like that" I meant for this kind of use case. There are absolutely cases where a carryover spinner makes sense, but they're not as common IME and these are usually used incorrectly
Manish @ManishEarth
6 Feb 2020
Replying to @FremyCompany @tabatkins @instagram
yeah I should have said for this kind of date entry. I don't think anyone goes "my birthday is April 30 I will scroll to May and subtract 1"
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Replying to @ManishEarth
Worst spinner thing I ever had was a data entry thing for rowing distance in the Garmin app - It had two spinners, one for meters, and one for 10ths of a meter. I literall had to scroll from 1.0 to 1500.0 on a regular basis.

Feb 6, 2020 ยท 4:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @dsilverstone @ManishEarth
Nowadays it's a text entry field, but it doesn't auto-full-hilite when you press it, so you still have to tap it, tap it again to give it focus, backspace it to empty it, and then type in the distance. Data entry is hard.
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Oh yeah, and do all this while your hands are sweaty from the rowing machine :D
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