Jul 29
35 Inspirational Shopping Cart Page Designs
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Shopping carts are an integral part of the online shopping experience. E-commerce designers face challenges in creating an attractive, yet user-friendly, website that will provide customers with a pleasant purchasing experience.
In this post we will feature 35 online shops that have well-designed and appealing shopping cart pages. These pages are what visitors will see after choosing the items that they want, and just before beginning the checkout. Well-designed shopping cart pages can help to increase conversions and minimize abandoned carts by shoppers who change their minds.
Chop Shop
Ooga Zone
Nine West
Nike
REI
TOOBYDOO
Crate & Barrel
House Industries
JAQK Wine Cellars
Kansas City Steaks
Abercrombie & Fitch
Nestliving
Red is White
Mouse to Minx
Cacties
Urban Originals
Russell & MacKenna
Lane Bryant
Nort Berlin
The Sak
Acne
Lucky Brand Jeans
TasteBook
Brio
Anna Scholz
Steve & Co.
Mohawk Paper Store
Hard Graft
Nicholas Deakins
ShopRush
Dirty Coast
Victoria’s Secret
Ginger Pup Lane
Bridge55
Design by Humans
Author: Steven Snell
Steven in a web designer and freelance blogger. He also runs CartFrenzy, a gallery that showcases excellence in e-commerce web design.
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Tags: DESIGN, Shopping Cart
Crate&Barrels highlighted border makes the shopping content area really stand out. It’s given me some inspiration in styling shopping cart pages! Thanks for the post!
there’s only so much you can do with check out pages, but i guess there’s still something to be made
What I was thinking, nearly. So far I’ve not seen a checkout page which really inspires new layout/design or promotes better usability.
Are these all using custom shopping cart systems?
I’d like to see how good they get using open source software…
Very nice collection – It is inspiring to see people do things a little differently.
Cool list but you should add this one http://www.seanscottphotography.com.au/shop.php . You will need to go through and select a product to see how clean it is.
Nike and Mouse to Minx both looks cool
These are really nice. I really like the first one. Thanks for the inspiration.
Seriously, where’s Threadless?
I second that.
Exactly!!! threadless.com is one hell of a nice e-commerce site.
This WordPress theme was made using WP e-Commerce + Thematic and was inspired by threadless.com – what totally rules about this was that threadless.com contributed a $100 voucher to Jan the winner :)
http://www.instinct.co.nz/threadless-thematic-challenge-winner/
Another site that should be here is panic.com/goods which has a cool drop shop.
The two sites here that really impressed me
1) OOGA ZONE
2) Nike
Both totally cool…
I don’t get it, where are the big guns ? It’s comparatively simple to design an “add to cart” ecommerce page where you can only change quantity. Dell (complexity), Tesco (loyalty) and others are clearly the inspirational ones !
Maybe it’s just me but I’m not really impressed by any of these except the British Hair Supply and Kansas City site. All the others are uninspiring and don’t really catch the users attention in my opinion.
Being both a designer and a coder, I think the trick is to do something attractive and pleasing while still making it usable.
As Steve Krug says, reinventing the wheel (challenging accepted conventions of shopping carts, in this case), makes sense only if you really understand the value of what you’re replacing.
Two additional things I’d like to see:
1. Technology these were built on (sometimes this plays a bigger role in design than it should)
2. Cart abandonment stats for each cart listed; that would really let us know which one not only looks good, but functions efficiently, as well..
Red is White is cool. It’s very organized.
Thanks Steven for the excellent roudup, so fresh and inspiring.
I am glad many of our readers found this post interesting, we hope Steven could dedicate more posts for Noupe :)
When will you to post the best Rock’n Roll and heavy Metal Designs?
Thanks for publishing the post Noura!
Some standing out shopping cards, thanks steven.
My vote:
1) OOGA wins on awseome usability, its been a while since I’ve been impressed by an e-Commerce innovation in design and these guys did it for me.
2) Nike comes second but only really because I clicked on Nike second. Its not hugely innovative but it is very nice :)
Ohhh I forgot to mention this > http://icondock.com/
IconDock is one of my all time favourites – powered by the WP e-Commerce Plugin and WordPress.
Thanks for sharing this great list, I have just started designing an e-commerce shop and this has given me some inspiration for when I get to the shopping cart page.
Some great examples of shopping cart pages, my favourites are Nicholas Deakins and Bridge55.
Loving the mouse to minx layout. Not many shopping carts have been built to this excellence. Brilliant!
All of the layouts are fine..but especially the First one chop shop and Kansas city are really nice.
Thanks for info
Austina
some really nice designs, thanks :)
We are looking for new techniques for our online store and your list has many sites that are fresh and uses different concepts.. I thank you for your time to harvest this list.
Thanks for the kind words. We get a fair amount of traffic from this post and wanted to offer your readers a discount code for any purchases. use “givemeabreak” at check-out to get %15 off.
Very Nice list of themes. Although most of them are nice looking. First one is really impressive. thanks for such a useful list :-)
Cathy
Very nice collection
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