Date pickers are the worst
I hate date pickers.
A date picker from Google’s Material Design system
A date picker from Apple’s iOS design system
Why can’t we just tell the users what format we want, and let them type the date in? Maybe let them use a picker if they really want? It is so much faster to type a date, particularly one that’s very far away like a date of birth.
Sure, sometimes I need to see the calendar in order to know what date I need to pick (like setting a deadline for a task), but in those cases we can just let the user push a button to see the picker.
But we should never, ever, make a picker the only choice for date entry. Just let me type.