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Archive for the ‘Cart Design’ Category

The Frictionary

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

Linda Bustos' great list of design elements that impede e-commerce.

Shaping the Product Information Page

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Melissa Burdon (who I'm sure has very smooth legs) talks about what improving the likelihood of conversion based on her experience buying leg waxing strips.  Thanks, Melissa!

Checkout button analysis

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

A very interesting survey of checkout buttons from our friends in Vancouver, Canada.

The art of the cross-sell

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Elastic Path lets a guest poster  discuss some cross selling strategies.

Finally, the intersection of alcohol and e-commerce

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Take a look at Buy Your Friend a Drink.  Phase II suggestion: a "lap dance" checkbox. :)

CultCart

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Looks like those wacky FLDS fellers have set up their own cart.  One missing yet obviously required feature: quantity discounts. :)

Keep an eye on those icons

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

So I booked a Choice Hotel room this weekend, and being a non-smoker, selected a non-smoking room, as identified by this icon: Except ... that wasn't the no-smoking icon. This is the no-smoking icon: Given the choice of millions of colors, why on earth would they reuse red?  Why not, oh, ...

near e-commerce

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

If you don't have a shopping cart but are still using your website for marketing, elementfusion.com has some design principles for your site.

Top Ten E-Commerce Mistakes

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

An interesting list from AllBusiness.com. The usual suspects are mentioned; what caught my eye was the fact that they listed customer service as a key success indicator; this is the opposite of what I quoted ShoeMoney as saying last week (original post here). Who's right? I believe ...

Changing your cart’s look? Be sure to test

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Brian Eisenberg's company wrote an article about Crutchfield's new left hand side call to action.  They're not big fans ... and they're guessing it came to pass because of a lack of testing.