What’s one design element least likely to be found on e-commerce sites?  It’s the search element, and what a shame.  So many sites decide to forgo giving users the opportunity to search a site for relevant information and quick finds, not realizing the harm that is done. Why so important?  Well, the ability of customers [...]

Planning is an important life process. Applying this technique to an important business venture as a website design is no less significant. There are pertinent questions to be addressed, and they will be answered in this article being techniques for planning of an E-Commerce web site. The significance lies in its purpose. It is a [...]

A few posts ago, I presented three excellent e-commerce principles to help your site convert. I’m pleased to offer three more. This topic is of such importance to clients that it’s worth a good follow-up. Not only is e-commerce a thriving industry, it’s also a rather complicated universe, full of do’s and don’ts. Designers are [...]

A few posts back, we presented you with the top three common e-commerce mistakes and we’re back again with more.  It’s not hard to see that e-commerce is a viable way to earn a profit in this Internet based world we live in, so it makes sense that there’d be a ton of online stores [...]

Have you considered the user experience issues in your e-commerce design?  If you haven’t, then you should start sooner rather than later.  With cart abandonment rates at about 60% these days, designers are challenged to create a design that builds trust before checkout. When the stakes are as high as they are, it’s helpful to [...]

Sometimes, the best way to know what to do is to know what not to do.  This is a tried and true principle, especially when it comes to e-commerce design.  E-commerce places the global market at your fingertips.  Throw in infinitely lower overhead costs and the chance to make profits any time of the day [...]