Chris Nagele
Thursday, January 12th, 2006

Drag and Drop Shopping Cart

A nice tool for adding items to a shopping cart has been created by a company in Portland called Panic. The idea is interesting and makes a lot of sense. You can click on an item you want to buy and drag it into the cart window. It inserts the item and calculates the total.

I think it is a great step and something to learn from. I would be interested to know how useful it actually is to users.

Have a look:
http://www.panic.com/goods/

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Vladimir on January 14th, 2006 at 7:56 am

We can use this idea in e-commerce applications. Its simple builds in JavaScript.

mj on February 6th, 2006 at 4:20 am

Hey,

it would have been useful if somehow i got to know the individual prices of the items added to the shopping cart. If possible, on mouse over on each item i could view its price. This is so that if the total is exceeding my budget i could remove an appropriately priced item.

Khaqan on August 7th, 2006 at 10:07 am

We did something similar on http://www.soundcrafts.co.uk

ARLAN DEAN on November 17th, 2006 at 3:11 pm

The Panic cart is one of the cleanest and most engaging executions of drag/drop ecommerce that I’ve seen. For those who want to follow Panic’s progress, they’re considering marketing the app. You can contact them to be included on their email updates list.

Drag and Drop Shopping Cart

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