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Some shopping carts do not offer an easy way to remove items. The most easy way of doing it is placing a link or a button labeled “remove”. Sometimes there is no Remove link and the user has to update the quantity value to zero. That’s something many users might not notice.

As you can see in the example, AllPosters.com, the world’s largest poster and print store, placed an Update button and a Remove link below the Quantity input box. This a good usability approach that users will probably understand.

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A horrible example of tabs design can be found at Yahoo! Shopping. It’s weird to see these kind of things at Yahoo! but it’s true.

Here you can see two tabs highlighted at the same time. If you don’t want to confuse your users please don’t do this.

Clicking on “Holiday Gifts” the tab labels change, “More” disappear. Another usability problem I find is that they use so many words written in capitals everywhere on the site. Without doubt words written in capitals are harder to read. Plus, “SHOP FOR” is highlighted, it just looks horrible.

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