Apparel & Accessories UX

Empowering your apparel shoppers to buy with confidence

Baymard’s apparel UX research guides your team with data to show where shoppers struggle with fit, size, images, and returns. Drive stronger ROI on your roadmap with a library of battle-tested apparel UX insights.

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Apparel ecommerce UX research, with product pages and annotated design guidelines

Apparel UX research

Get access to Baymard's proprietary UX Standards covering checkout, product imagery, returns and more.

Apparel UX audits

Get an expert review of your apparel store with 40 prioritized recommendations in order of impact. Find out what you need to fix first.

Is your apparel site underperforming?

Discover data-backed, battle-tested UX conversion blockers, based on Baymard’s large-scale usability research across the Apparel & Accessories industry.

90%

of apparel sites get at least one key UX best practice wrong.

82%

of apparel sites don’t provide sufficient sizing information.

70%

of apparel sites don’t use size-selection buttons correctly, or at all.

48%

of apparel shoppers look for size accuracy and fit details in reviews.

Apparel UX research

Take the guesswork out of UX with expert insights

Understand how shoppers find products, judge them, and make a purchasing decision. We offer a treasure trove of apparel-specific UX Standards, annotated design examples, and benchmarks designed to turn shopping behavior into practical recommendations.

Use Baymard when reviewing size guides, product imagery, filters, customer reviews and returns information.

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Examples of apparel product lists and product pages covered by Baymard research
Apparel UX audit

Understand where you need to improve and how

Baymard reviews your desktop and mobile shopping experience against our Standards and industry best practices. Your team gets prioritized findings, practical recommendations and examples so you know exactly what to change first.

Focus on the journeys that matter and work with our experts to implement suggestions. 4x faster than internal UX reviews.

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Apparel UX performance comparison across shopping areas

What really moves the needle on apparel store UX?

Uncover the common pain points shoppers experience when choosing clothing, footwear and accessories online

Fit & sizing

Better support your shoppers with fit and size before they make a purchase.

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Product imagery

Show clothing on human models so shoppers can judge how a product looks when worn.

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Outfit discovery

Support browsing with curated paths that help shoppers find the right products.

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Returns

Make return and shipping information easy to find before your shoppers commit to a purchase.

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Apparel UX questions

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Our apparel research covers the full ecommerce journey from navigation, search, product lists and filtering right through to product pages, checkout and accounts. Apparel-specific UX insights also cover fit and sizing, imagery, discovery and returns.


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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

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“We’ve used Baymard as a structured evaluation framework when auditing parts of our digital experience. In one fairly recent project, I mapped Baymard’s guidelines directly against the CONFIRMED app experience to systematically identify both smaller friction points and more fundamental usability gaps. 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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“Baymard produces some of the most relevant and actionable user experience research available. They really understand the needs of UX and Product Management professionals, and their deep experience in the eCommerce field allows them to offer sophisticated, nuanced insights.”

Kerry McAleer

Former Director of UX Research at Sears

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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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“I appreciated the detailed audit and found the readout to be insightful and inspiring. The Baymard team did a fabulous job of explaining methodology, answering questions, and providing best practice recommendations! ”

Jenn Keller

Sr. UX Designer at KFC

Grow your revenue with best-in-class apparel UX research

Spot your biggest UX issues and stay ahead of your competition. Explore data-backed UX standards, performance benchmarks, and competitor insights for your industry.