Vol. 02: Homepages and Category Pages

2nd Edition

Part of the E-Commerce User Experience Series

Category pages and your homepage organize and prioritize a site's offerings. Customers run into problems when they can’t tell what your site sells or can’t find the products they want to buy. This report helps you present the right amount of information and organize it well. 

This 193-page report presents 71 guidelines based on our usability research. Discussions and 187 screenshot illustrations supplement the findings.

Topics

  • Effective homepages that sell and build trust
  • The role of product listing pages in the purchase process
  • Showing product offerings
  • Layout of category pages
  • Techniques for facilitating direct navigation and serendipitous exploration through category pages
  • Comparing products
  • Sorting products
  • Introducing the site
  • Tips for creating a good first impression and keeping customers on your site
  • Navigation and classification
  • Displaying product listings

Research Method

The information in this report is based on two separate rounds of e-commerce studies, including:

  • One-on-one usability testing
  • Diary-based longitudinal study
  • Eyetracking

In total, 108 people tested 206 e-commerce websites. The studies took place in the United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, and China (Hong Kong).


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