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E-commerce User Experience, vol. 9:
Design Guidelines for Trust and Credibility

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Summary

Trust is the user's willingness to risk time, money, and personal data on a website. This report discusses many factors that can enhance (or damage) trust in e-commerce sites.

The report contains a total of 59 design guidelines, based on usability testing of 226 e-commerce sites.

95 pages. Richly illustrated with 89 color screenshots from many different websites, showing usability problems we found in our testing as well as examples of trust-enhancing designs.

This document is a part of Nielsen Norman Group's series of design guidelines for e-commerce user experience. Save 58% by buying all 13 reports on a single CD-ROM.


Table of Contents

  1. Building Trust
    • Looking Good
    • Proof of Existence
    • What You Get for Your Money
    • Protecting Personal Information
  2. Guidelines List
  3. Design and Site Experience
    • Site Experience
    • Site Search
  4. Information About the Company
  5. Product Information
    • Product Details
    • Inventory and Availability
  6. Pricing and Costs
  7. Requesting Personal Information
    • Respecting Users' Information
    • Opt In
  8. Performance and Errors
  9. Fraud, Security and Policies
  10. Supporting the Customer

Who Should Read This Report?

This report has timely and important information for anybody responsible for an e-commerce site and interested in seeing it as successful as possible.

Running a similar usability study yourself to collect comparative design lessons from a large number of websites around the world would cost thousands more than the cost of these reports, not to mention months of effort by your team of experienced usability professionals.

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