Fancy Checkout

What is Fancy Checkout?

Fancy Checkout is an open-source front-end experiment created to turn the waiting moment after a purchase into a more expressive animated confirmation experience.

My job here was...

I designed and built the concept end to end, covering the visual direction, motion idea, interaction flow, and front-end implementation with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

The problem

Checkout experiences usually treated loading as dead time. The most common solution was a spinner, even when the product had a clear opportunity to reassure the user, celebrate the purchase, and make the interaction feel more intentional.

There was also a career problem behind the idea. I was still building visibility on LinkedIn, and I knew that a creative, browser-native interaction could help me stand out while also exploring a real UX opportunity. Fancy Checkout became a way to solve both goals at once: improve a familiar loading moment and create something people would want to share.

The solution

I created a checkout flow where the purchase confirmation becomes an animated transition instead of a generic loading state. The goal was not to build a complete payment product, but to show that browser interactions could already feel playful, polished, and memorable with careful CSS and JavaScript.

I also built the project with visibility in mind. Early in my career, I wanted something that could travel well through LinkedIn, Behance, and GitHub, bring attention to my profile, and prove that I could combine product thinking, motion design, CSS, and JavaScript in a browser-native experience.

Conclusion

The idea worked. The LinkedIn post generated strong engagement, and the open-source repository became a visible portfolio piece with 400 GitHub stars. More than a UI exercise, Fancy Checkout helped me show that I could create interactions people wanted to share.