Shopping Carts Gallery: Examples and Good Practices | | |
Imagine that you are designing an online-store. Since stakeholders are only interested in the number of sells, the success of your work directly depends on how well you manage to drive users to the “Checkout”-button. In this case you might want to consider some design approaches which will set you apart from your competitors. After all, the probability that they’ve done it wrongly is extremely high. | | |
One of the simplest examples of flawed design decisions is the incorrect use of the shopping cart icon — a traditional icon which stands for the virtual holding place for any products of the store. Used properly, this little yet powerful element can help users to buy a product as quickly and painless as possible. As such, it is essential for the purchasing procedure and therefore deserves to be considered carefully during the design process. | | |
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An unusual view of the shopping cart, a huge shopping bag accompanied by a mascot. | | |
In this post we present attractive, creative and user-friendly shopping carts, bags, trolleys, buckets and baskets — any kind of carts as they are used in the online-stores. Besides, we also cover related creative ideas, design approaches and usability guidelines. | | |
But simple text link is enough, right? | | |
Yes, sometimes. However, in many cases it depends on what kind of products the company or store is going to offer. If the company is going to sell screwdrivers, colorful shopping bags are probably not the best option for the shopping cart icon. In such cases a clearly visible text link might be sufficient. However, if you’d like to attract customers’ attention in a shoes store, you might be better off with some slightly more attractive design elements. | | |
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Landsens uses a simple text link for the shopping cart functionality. It’s one possible solution, but probably not the most effective one... | | |
