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		drusenko on Feb 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Divvyshot (YC W09) launches (with HTML5 drag-and-d... in our experience, a drag drop action is incredibly hard for a user to perform, and should really be reserved only for when it add significant UI context to the action. i'd stay far away from having users drag and drop goods into a shopping cart.

est on Feb 12, 2010 [–]

But once you get it you will be very addictive to it :D

A drag drop shopping cart is far more interesting than a cart webpage, more intuitive, quickly manageable.

drusenko on Feb 12, 2010 | [–]

revenue is not made by "interesting" products. and for a shopping cart, i'm not sure it's necessarily that much more intuitive.

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