Stop designing UI Date Pickers from the 90s

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The developer sizing this ticket as a MEGA and getting grilled at sprint planning 😂

I prefer my date pickers allow me to pick the 7th of the month, but that's just me

The best datepicker for many use cases is a text field with auto formatting. People can type in their DoB in half a second, but will need many times more to pick it.

tiny reminder to always think of context of use when creating a UI component: for example, this date picker is clearly well suited for a travel booking system. It won't work as well for, let's say, a historical search by date.

This is genuinely one of the most visually cluttered, unintuitive date pickers I have ever seen.

I couldn't stop looking at the 7 missing and being two 8's 😅

Having the year placement so low feels a bit strange to me, and add a cognitive load, idk

First step probably should be to fix the bug that makes 7th of January 2025 not exist...

I'd improve this by: - Including the final day in that length-of-stay. Don't have two representations for a date range. - Making space between date and price smaller. Stronger show they belong together. - Add prices to the selected bar. Visually more consistent.