[Sigia-l] Shopping Basket

[Louise Hewitt]

For all those waiting with baited breath... (come on, you know you are)... here's an update on the shopping cart situation. (see below)

After pulling the cart (we're all here on non-disclosure promises right :D) we've got an flow:

add to cart  >  [tooltip link]  >  go to checkout
v
header cart icon state change [no.of items]
v
[header icon tooltip link]
v
go to checkout.

By careful specification of the messaging in these, and insistence on cookie behaviour, the experience is meh but not OMG!

We've been promised that the cart will return next release!

This whole thing has brought up several issues that are rattling round the IA/UX world right now. I've mused on them in a new blog post (too many words for here) but I'd love to hear your responses if you have any
http://louisehewittsandbox.blogspot.com/2011/02/mitigate-and-move-on.html


Lou.
On 25 Jan 2011, at 17:04, Jacqui Olkin wrote:

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> Louise,
> 
> No basket at all? Oh, my.
> 
> Please keep us updated! : )
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> J.
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>> From: louise.hewitt at gmail.com
>> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:33:18 +0000
>> To: sigia-l at asis.org
>> Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Shopping Basket
>> 
>> Guess what! They just pulled the overlay cart :D
>> 
>> Now I have NO BASKET - hmmmm.
>> 
>> Thanks for all the feedback.
>> 
>> Lou.
>> On 18 Jan 2011, at 21:06, Jonathan Baker-Bates wrote:
>> 
>>> On 18 January 2011 13:16, Louise Hewitt <louise.hewitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> 6. What about the upsells? (sorry, I work ecomm). Many sites will use
>>>> the
>>>>> shopping cart to sell that final upsell. Need a warranty to go with that
>>>>> watch? Or the belt to go with those shoes? A lot of ecomm platforms offer
>>>>> upsell products in the shopping cart for additional sales before starting
>>>>> checkout.
>>>>> 
>>>> RE Jonathon - this is the kind of messaging I worry will be lost
>>>> (particularly the 'comfort' stuff like charges and policies) in a slimline
>>>> overlay approach. In losing the dedicated space, those who would like to
>>>> have that sort of stuff won't get to see it.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Changing the goalposts, eh? :-) If up/crossell is an issue, then we're on a
>>> different playing field (although still not one where I'd rule out removing
>>> the cart step to solve those issues).
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I'd be curious to see/hear what your checkout flow is going to look like.
>>>>> Multi-step? Single page? UI presentation? Etc. There's alllll sorts of
>>>>> debates and back and forth on "the best checkout" that continues to rage
>>>> on
>>>>> (in a good way, of course :) ) but I understand client confidentiality.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't think I'd be revealing too much when I report that we have been
>>> running a three-way test between very different checkout paths (a two-step,
>>> a three-step and a single step) solidly for the best part of two YEARS
>>> across about 10 points of sale, and in that time have run various tests
>>> within those tests on each main variant. There has been no clear winner yet,
>>> and most of the sub-tests barely move the needle. On the evidence I have
>>> from that, it would seem you could make customers place their orders with
>>> SQL queries and it would barely affect conversion. Could it be that once you
>>> are that far down, design becomes irrelevant? It's certainly the case that
>>> UI tests at the top of the funnel show variations in conversion and other
>>> metrics that are usually an order of magnitude more violent than anything we
>>> do down by the booking form. Mind you, we also invite people to place orders
>>> with a toll-free call (which tend to convert extremely highly) so that's
>>> worth considering :-)
>>> 
>>> Jonathan
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