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Abi SutherlandWow, EasyJet Plus has an AMAZING system for entering your phone number prefix.
(It's alphabetical by country.)
(It's alphabetical by country.)
For anyone who wants to stare at it: https://plus.easyjet.com/become-a-member.aspx
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer@evilrooster that is seriously poor design
DJ Fragile Toolchains
Allusion@evilrooster Nice to see both the US (+1) and Canada (+1) there.
mjfgates@evilrooster Now Third Kid is bewildered and disgusted, and in commemoration of this I have memed:
pericat@evilrooster disregard my previous, that is actually worse than what I thought was going on.
OldBrushNewPaper@pericat @evilrooster This is just the exact moment one reader wanders by, and goes, "Wha---?"
(Never mind me. This kind of "tuning in, hear something out-of-context weird" is simply life.)
Irina@evilrooster I've found that typing +31 will get to the NL code without having to scroll through the whole list! (learned that from picking my year of birth from a dropdown)
@irina Huh. Nothing there signals the ability to type. Good that we can.
Naomi P@evilrooster oh wow!
That’s worse than the popup menus for entering two letter US state abbreviations that are sorted by the full state name.
MarjorieR@gannet @evilrooster and the online police theft report form where we (and the Austrian police) were trying to search an alphabetic drop-down list to enter where I lived: not UK, not GB, not United Kingdom or Great Britain it was VEREINIGTES KÖNIGREICH - even the police couldn't guess that.
GunChleoc@marjolica It's the usual German translation. Sometimes it's Großbritannien instead.
I hope they at least sorted it by display name 🤣
Sid (谷思谛) 🐺@gunchleoc @marjolica @gannet @evilrooster the worst are country lists localized but sorted by their English names 🙄Then you have Deutschland directly above Griechenland.
Toran ShawSo the German name. Not unlike the Dutch Verenigd Koningrijk. A literal translation of "United Kingdom" in both places.
@evilrooster @marjolica @gannet ta for that. I'm half Austrian and have lived in Germany for a few years, but never come across that name before. Interesting! 🤔
Kenneth
Dr. Ben Wolfe@evilrooster I am absolutely saving this as an example for Human Factors next term.
Erin Kissane@evilrooster screeeeeam
Sarah Jane Schmidt 
It hurts. It hurts my eyes.
Tiger Spot@evilrooster Oh dear.
I’m so glad you explained. I would not have gotten that in a million years.
@tiger_spot I had to investigate; I didn’t know it off the top of my head.
Ryan J. Yoder@evilrooster @tiger_spot 237 Cameroon followed by 1 USA?
@evilrooster @tiger_spot Canada! Forgot we share +1 with them.
Jonathan Lennox
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Luo Binghe baculum truther@evilrooster this made me cry-laugh
@evilrooster That's... I... Who...
So much overhead. So much maintenance. All to avoid a 10 digit keypad thing. That's needed for the rest of the telephone parts.
@pericat Not a lot of maintenance; if you have table of countries then you just display the column with phone codes instead of the column with country names.
Just a thoughtless decision that should never have made it out of testing, or better yet, design.
Just a thoughtless decision that should never have made it out of testing, or better yet, design.
@evilrooster But data to do with countries is not static. I work with a db including countries & regions within by code. New entries cannot be made unless the db is already set up to recognize the desired country and region. This info changes a lot more often than I would have thought, before I got on that team.
I guess what I'm on about is, because it can change, and it is user-facing, it has to be monitored to some degree.
I may be overestimating how much that company cares, of course.
@evilrooster It's so beautiful! People could just gaze at this list for hours... trying to figure out what it is.
Dave Lane 
🇳🇿@evilrooster wow! Looks totes "User Friendly".
Giliell@evilrooster
Sorted in English or native language?
Sorted in English or native language?
@Giliell English-language names of countries. Even when I change the language on the website.
@evilrooster
Yes, that's not confusing at c all. Though my favourite way is to use alphabetical English language sorting with chosen language names, because nothing is more intuitive than looking for Deutschland (Germany) someplace after Frankreich (France) 😂
Yes, that's not confusing at c all. Though my favourite way is to use alphabetical English language sorting with chosen language names, because nothing is more intuitive than looking for Deutschland (Germany) someplace after Frankreich (France) 😂
@Giliell Ok, that’s an extra level of evil.
The only valid sorting is by ISO country codes 😈
Till O'Rly 
@evilrooster @Giliell they should sort it by the formal name in the official language. So it wouldn't be Germany nor Deutschland, but Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Prufrax@evilrooster Wouldnt want to accidentally select the Canada +1 entry when you meant the USA +1 entry there, if it's validating area codes by country....
Max Harmony
Andrew@evilrooster I recently learned of an idea in user experience work, where you try to come up with the worst possible design. It's intended as a fun exercise, to challenge designers to think more around what they are working on. I feel someone misunderstood the concept
Lorrie Wood (Clewara Hedwi)@evilrooster Good thing Canada comes early in the chosen alphabet! 😅
arensb@evilrooster Do they also have ten pulldown menus so you can select each digit of your phone number one by one?
amey@arensb @evilrooster each drop-down listing the digits in a different random order, just to keep with the theme 
@amey That sounds like an evil CAPTCHA.
Marc Jacobs
Ultraklystron (Karl Olson)@evilrooster just when I think I've seen the most cursed UX after being on the relative ground floor of this internet nonsense, life, uh, finds a way.
pr06lefs@evilrooster Ah take a page from the universally beloved UI experience that is Time Zones
@evilrooster
Who am I, Felix Unger?
Who am I, Felix Unger?
Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse@evilrooster can you type it in (keyboard) after opening the popup? it looks like a standard system control so that should be possible. Not ideal but better than scrolling to hell and back… (I often do the typing trick with birthday popups)
@dngrs No, you can’t type it. Pull-down only.
@evilrooster I probably phrased it badly - in pulldown menus you can still often type the row you like to select - so in this case you'd click to open (or tab-focus) and then type "+1". But it might still not work quite right because it's not sorted…
@dngrs Turns out you can type it. Nothing in the jnterface made me think that would work, but heck, 27 years in tech, what would I know?
Zimmie@evilrooster @dngrs Looks like macOS, which *always* lets you type in pickers, across the whole OS. It’s a great feature, but there’s no UI hint to suggest typing will do anything.
@bob_zim @evilrooster
pretty sure it works on any OS/browser, as long it's using the browser's built in controls! but yes, it's one of those annoying things that you just *have to know*...
pretty sure it works on any OS/browser, as long it's using the browser's built in controls! but yes, it's one of those annoying things that you just *have to know*...
Edmund Schweppe@evilrooster Well, that is most certainly ... a ... design. (I desperately want to assume it's a bug in the UI.)
@edschweppe No, it is, in Henry V's words, chew'd, swallow'd and digested.
Simon Welsh@evilrooster @daisy do they have multiple +1 entries (US, Canada at least) or is it just there for the US?