Research & tools for ecommerce teams

Better UX decisions. Stronger ecommerce performance.

Find usability issues, design with evidence, and get stakeholders behind the right improvements. Give your team the research and tools to move from everyday UX questions to clearer priorities and better customer experiences.

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From UX research to your next improvement

See how a shared foundation of UX research helps teams find friction, prioritize improvements, and build with confidence.

Built for the work and the outcomes

Practical answers. Organization-wide impact.

Support the people improving your experience and the leaders deciding where to invest.

Focus effort where it matters

Identify usability weaknesses and compare your experience with industry peers. Give design and product teams a stronger case for what to improve next.

Reduce avoidable rework

Bring established UX guidance into decisions before development. Catch familiar usability problems while there is still time to change the design.

Build a shared UX standard

Give designers, researchers, product managers, and leaders a common reference. Make reviews more consistent and priorities easier to explain.

01 / Find the opportunity

Know where your experience needs work

Use the Review Tool to assess your site against UX best practices, then compare the results with industry leaders and competitors. UX-Ray offers a quick starting point by surfacing potential friction to investigate.

Give your roadmap a clear UX baseline and specific opportunities to explore.

Explore UX Benchmarking · Discover UX-Ray

Baymard UX benchmark comparing performance across ecommerce sites and interface areas
02 / Understand what works

Find the evidence behind your next decision

Explore 700+ UX best practice guidelines and use UX-Query to find research relevant to your question. Understand the customer behavior behind each recommendation and what it means for navigation, search, product pages, checkout, and more.

Spend less time searching for answers and more time applying the evidence.

Explore UX Guidelines · Meet UX-Query

A Baymard UX guideline showing research findings and practical implementation guidance
03 / Put it into practice

Turn research into designs you can defend

Browse 18,000+ annotated design examples to see how UX principles work in real interfaces. Explore alternatives, understand why an implementation works, and bring guideline cards into Figma alongside your designs.

Make design reviews more concrete and give development a clearer rationale.

Explore Design Examples · Explore Figma Tools

Annotated ecommerce page designs showing where interfaces meet or fall short of UX best practices
04 / Align and improve

Make progress visible across your team

Use the Review Tool’s findings and scores to give your team a shared view of UX strengths and weaknesses. Reassess your experience as changes go live, and use structured UX training to build a more consistent approach across your team.

Show what has improved in your UX. Track the commercial results in your own analytics and experiments.

Explore the Review Tool · Build UX Expertise

Baymard Review Tool showing an assessment of a site against UX guidelines

Choose the tools for the work ahead

Tool

UX-Ray

Get a snapshot of potential UX friction on your site and identify areas for further investigation.

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Manual Review Tool

Assess your site against UX guidelines, record findings, and keep track of your team’s reviews.

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Content

UX Performance Benchmarks

Compare UX performance across industry peers and see strengths and weaknesses at site, page, and component level.

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Content

UX Best Practice Guidelines

Understand common usability problems and the research-backed guidance for solving them.

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Customer perspectives

How teams put the research to work

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“Having Baymard is like having access to a magical UX super power. I can't believe how helpful and easy to use it is, given the vast array of tools and information they provide!”

Ariana Biedebach

Manager, UX Research at Levi Strauss & Co.

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“We’ve used Baymard as a structured evaluation framework when auditing parts of our digital experience… This approach gave us a strong foundational overview of where the experience deviated from established UX best practices and helped prioritize improvements.”

Josefine Raneke

UX Researcher at Adidas

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“Intelligent, consumer-focused insights that are clear and actionable. The team in the room really loved the way the Baymard Institute highlighted the optimizations in the various user experience elements (copy, layout, design, calls-to-action…), from the perspective of consumer struggles. Baymard’s Usability research really complements our other existing research tools.”

Will Close

Director of A/B Testing at Nike.com

Expert-led UX audits

Need an expert team to set the priorities?

Bring Baymard’s researchers into your project for an independent evaluation of your site. Get site-specific recommendations and a benchmark against industry peers to help your team decide where to focus.

A dedicated service for teams that want expert analysis alongside ongoing access to research and tools.

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An expert-led Baymard UX audit with site-specific findings and recommendations

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