Usability of Expiration Date selectors
Why do sooo many e-commerce sites (which don't have 1-click shopping) make users translate their credit card expiration dates?
Let's see here..."09"...equals...September...which equals..."Sept." which is...*scroll*...*scroll*...*click* hereIt's a simple matter to display BOTH the day and number of the month in the drop-down selector's text. It's so easy to make a targeting error when the drop-down list requires scrolling (it's not like the Gregorian calendar is going to change anytime soon) and/or the user is in a rush whilst using the mouse for selection.
An implicit hint here is to actually not use the mouse at all for these things, but to use the built-in auto-completion features in modern browser implementations of selection boxes. Unfortunately, there's no affordance for this feature in web forms. Hence, the vast majority of users remain mouse-bound and error-prone.