Here’s a nice study from Get Elastic of how different companies design their Add to Cart buttons, all linked to their actual shopping carts. There’s even statistics. Of the 111 “shopping cart” buttons, 58% use the phrase “Add to Cart” while the rest is a mishmash.
This is a great example of how the language of new technologies waffle over a time until settling on a winning phrase. It’s almost a folksonomy of shopping cart buttons.
Although amazon.com use “Cart” and Amazon.co.uk use “Basket”, they didn’t change the icon of a wire container with wheels, despite that fact that baskets (in the UK, at least) don’t have wheels (that would make them Shopping Trolleys).
Abe books (USA) use a similar picture with wheels and call it a Basket - what’s going on there?
that is so weird