---
title: "Frustrating Design Patterns That Need Fixing: Birthday Picker"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/frustrating-design-patterns-that-need-fixing-birthday-picker-oawk-pboz
source_url: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/05/frustrating-design-patterns-birthday-picker/
type: article
source: "Smashing Magazine"
published: 2021-05-12T12:58:09.910Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming", "webdev"]
reading_time: 15
upvotes: 25
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Frustrating Design Patterns That Need Fixing: Birthday Picker

**[Smashing Magazine](https://daily.dev/sources/smashing)** · 15 min read · 25 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

In this new series of articles on UX, we take a closer look at some frustrating design patterns and explore better alternatives. These insights are coming from user research and usability tests conducted by yours truly and colleagues in the community. We’ll start with a humble and seemingly harmless pattern that we all had experienced at some point — the infamous birthday picker.

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