The basic idea is this: UX design is all about getting inside the head of your visitor. It’s about creating a simple, seamless, and enjoyable experience for your users. The idea is to deliver information quickly and even make them smile. Good UX design sparks dopamine and happiness in your visitors. And that makes them more likely to trust you. Crucially, it makes them more likely to buy from you.
After going over the 25 basics in our last UX design article, let’s take a look at how it works in action. Specifically, we’re looking at the UX design of e commerce websites. How do these websites use clever UX design tricks to encourage their visitors to buy?
https://www.bitcatcha.com/blog/x-examples-perfect-ecommerce-ux-design-x-bad-ones/
It's an occupational hazard within the retail sector: Lessons learned in the market are usually learned the hard way. Adding insult to injury, there is a very low margin for error, particularly when changing course in the business does not correlate with shopper demands.
The good news for grocery retailers is that decades of lessons learned via brick-and-mortar initiatives for category management and shopper marketing can be applied to e-commerce with relative ease.
So why isn't this happening at a faster pace? There are two main reasons.
First, CPG brands have been slow to react to e-commerce and have failed to make the necessary investments. Second, in an effort to react quickly to e-commerce competition such as Amazon some retailers are rushing to "band-aid" solutions, rather than building capabilities that enable a customized user experience and the ability to harvest invaluable customer data.
With that in mind, here are three basic lessons from traditional commerce that can fuel e-commerce success.
https://www.retailcustomerexperience.com/blogs/3-brick-and-mortar-lessons-for-e-commerce/
As Amazon continues to dominate the e-commerce space, smaller online retail businesses must do more to compete. Web design is one effective way e-commerce businesses can stand out to consumers while making a worthwhile investment in their marketing strategy. A recent consumer survey from Clutch shows that people value three main user experience (UX) features when they browse online:
- Effective navigation
- Updated website design
- Authoritative content
Updating a website to include or enhance these three features will benefit businesses beyond simply improving the user experience. Investing in navigation, design, and content also has important branding and SEO benefits.
https://www.business2community.com/web-design/3-website-features-your-e-commerce-site-needs-to-stand-out-02169445/
Providing a superior user experience is not only important to customer satisfaction, it’s also a component in Google’s rankings. Ecommerce sites present unique challenges for SEO – they have a lot of moving parts, with often hundreds if not thousands of pages and dynamic components.
In the fast-paced world of online retail, the role SEO plays in user experience can sometimes get lost in the shuffle. However, ignorance or disregard of SEO best practices can impact a website’s visibility in search engines, organic traffic, and ultimately conversions.
Here are four SEO strategies to keep top of mind to improve UX in the dynamic world of ecommerce:
http://multichannelmerchant.com/blog/4-seo-strategies-to-improve-ux-on-an-ecommerce-site/
While most shopping sites today use responsive design, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and others are advancing modern web technologies that are part of the Progressive Web App movement. PWAs unite the universal customer reach of the web with the engaging experience of a mobile app.
https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2018/07/17/5-signs-your-e-commerce-site-redesign-project-should-be-a-progressive-web-app/
You are an online marketer or eCommerce manager of a successful webshop and you’ve got all the necessary tools up and running. You’ve got your ads and retargeting efforts that provide you with leads. Then there’s A/B testing which provides insight into what is and isn’t converting your visitors. Meanwhile your web analytics and heatmaps are showing you what’s happening on your site. This is often the basic toolkit for webshops, which is logical, because it is important to know what your visitors are doing on your website. Unfortunately these tools don’t provide a complete understanding of the customer…
https://mopinion.com/5-ways-online-customer-feedback-can-optimise-your-webshop-2/
Usually, user experience (UX) of the design aspect gets overlooked until something goes awry. Understanding the value of UX and proffering it the consideration it deserves when developing or planning a site can help prevent problems in the future – and save businesses and brands trouble, money and time.
Fifty-two percent of users who shop online said that page speed affects their commitment to the online store. In the current competitive environment of ecommerce where revenue is expected to reach $4 trillion USD by 2020, delivering exceptional UX needs to be a priority.
Therefore, a business or brand has a goal of optimizing the user experience to boost sales. As Steve Krug, a UX expert said, “If someone thinks or doubts, the website usability is inefficient.”
https://www.business2community.com/ecommerce/6-ecommerce-ux-best-practices-02231859/
E-commerce and local search might seem to be exclusive functions. Local search is typically associated with store locations and driving offline purchases, while e-commerce usually involves online transactions.
But recently the crowded e-commerce space has led online-only stores to encroach on the turf of local stores and services.
https://searchengineland.com/6-smart-e-commerce-lessons-to-boost-local-business-292853/
Who said the listicle was dead?
To celebrate the recent release of our Ecommerce Best Practice Guide, I decided to round up a barrage of fancy, neat and impressive UX features. Some are simple established best practice, others are particularly innovative.
Most of the features help to usher the user along towards finding the right product and then purchasing it.
https://econsultancy.com/blog/69552-93-ecommerce-ux-features-that-create-user-flow/
The holidays have a special way of bringing people together, especially in the world of online customer feedback. Check out this infographic to see just how much feedback volumes skyrocket around the holidays. Here we’ve zoomed in on some specific industries and as expected, Ecommerce really caught our eye. Check it out!
https://mopinion.com/a-closer-look-at-holiday-feedback-volumes/
