Panic, the Mac software company that makes Coda and Transmit, has an apparel store with fun shopping cart behaviors that mimic the Mac's dock. The apparel store shows t-shirt listings, and a little cart dock at the bottom of the page that invites visitors to drag t-shirts down into it to add to cart. Clicking and dragging shows the ghosted t-shirt moving with the cursor until it snaps into the dock. Adding a bunch of t-shirts enables the carousel. When you drag t-shirts out of the dock, they disappear with a puff of smoke, just as items in the Mac dock do. Those who don't like to drag can use the plus sign icon.
The cart page shows a clean and simple form with all of your items to purchase, your information (shipping/billing info), and payment info. Short and without any fuss. I wish open source carts were easy enough to configure to be this simple.
I've seen this cart in action somewhere before and really enjoyed the experience!
Buggy. At least on FF 3.5
And why open a new browser window to show shirt detail images instead of a slick JS modal window?
No problems for me on FF 3.5. I agree with you that pop up windows aren't ideal either. They've had this for quite a while though.
Yeah, Panic have been running this cart system for a number of years. It was ahead of it's time! I noticed icondock.com doing one recently, although it's nowhere near as slick as the Panic drop shop. Speaking of tees, I've always liked the way TypeTees do a full preview on mouseover.
This is near-identical to Flickr's "Organizr". First I've seen it used for a shopping cart, though. Nice play value, considering the target market.
Seem buggy in FF 3.0.14. The items don't disappear when you drag them out.
nice idea but its really buggy, in FF 3.0.14 cant get the items to drag back out of the basket. Adding the same item twice doesn't stack
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