Jul 29
2009
35 Inspirational Shopping Cart Page Designs
- By Noupe Editorial Team
- Posted in DESIGN
- 36 comments
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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sir jorge, 29 July 2009
there’s only so much you can do with check out pages, but i guess there’s still something to be made
Danny Foo, 29 July 2009
What I was thinking, nearly. So far I’ve not seen a checkout page which really inspires new layout/design or promotes better usability.
Nathaniel, 29 July 2009
Are these all using custom shopping cart systems?
I’d like to see how good they get using open source software…
Graham, 29 July 2009
Very nice collection – It is inspiring to see people do things a little differently.
Ahmed, 29 July 2009
Nike and Mouse to Minx both looks cool
Dieter, 29 July 2009
These are really nice. I really like the first one. Thanks for the inspiration.
Gary, 29 July 2009
Seriously, where’s Threadless?
Juggling Mike, 29 July 2009
I second that.
Dan Milward, 30 July 2009
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…
Stiv, 22 April 2010
Hi! Who made site for panic-shop?Sorry for my english:)
Greg R, 29 July 2009
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 !
Mark, 29 July 2009
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.
Michael Goitein, 30 July 2009
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..
Noupe, 30 July 2009
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 :)
Reverend Azaziel, 30 July 2009
When will you to post the best Rock’n Roll and heavy Metal Designs?
Steven Snell, 30 July 2009
Thanks for publishing the post Noura!
Rainer Bendig, 30 July 2009
Some standing out shopping cards, thanks steven.
Dan Milward, 30 July 2009
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 :)
Dan Milward, 30 July 2009
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.
Jamie Allsop, 30 July 2009
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.
Sam, 31 July 2009
Some great examples of shopping cart pages, my favourites are Nicholas Deakins and Bridge55.
austina, 01 August 2009
All of the layouts are fine..but especially the First one chop shop and Kansas city are really nice.
Thanks for info
Austina
Kaplang, 02 August 2009
some really nice designs, thanks :)
Herbal Remedy, 06 August 2009
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.
cathy, 20 August 2009
Very Nice list of themes. Although most of them are nice looking. First one is really impressive. thanks for such a useful list :-)
Cathy
Alex, 20 October 2009
Very nice collection
Ganry22, 23 October 2009
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Merlin Lindenberger, 14 March 2010
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Preethi, 21 March 2010
Thanks for publishing this lovely list! The Ooga website is my fav!
Hank Satsky, 16 April 2010
Good topics, it open my eye , thanks
haib, 02 October 2010
thanks , it give me a big surprise ???
calvin frank, 18 January 2011
You made a number of good points there. I did a search on the topic and found nearly all persons will go along with with your blog.
Joseph Elliott, 11 May 2011
Hey great list to get creative juices flowing :) Was sitting staring at walls for inspiration before this post lol, Thanks Again :)
Gyanendra, 12 July 2012
Nice collection as alwyas.
Thanks
GL Walker, 15 August 2012
Very good list. I used this as a tool to create a new checkout system for osCommerce. t feels very much like a funnel. I introduced it this week to http://hollywoodbaskets.com. I would love to know anyone’s opinion.
Glen, 15 January 2013
I’ve been in out in the Nike website and I’d have to agree that their shopping cart system is superb! I have seen a lot of ecommerce shopping cart builders and not all of them really offer good solutions considering the price. Good list! Thanks!