B2B UX

Help business buyers move from research to an order

Business buyers need to understand a product and the steps required to buy it. Large catalogs and detailed information can make that work harder. Baymard’s B2B UX research helps your team examine discovery, product evaluation and ordering across the buying journey, with evidence drawn from business ecommerce sites.

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B2B ecommerce UX research and design examples

B2B UX research

Find guidance and examples for B2B product discovery, product pages, ordering and accounts, with coverage spanning several industries and specialist research for technical sectors.

B2B UX audits

Ask Baymard’s audit team to review your buying experience, with a scope tailored to your site, selected journeys and the questions your team needs answered.

Give B2B teams a shared basis for decisions

Evaluate the steps buyers take to find, assess and order products. B2B research gives teams concrete examples and evaluation criteria they can use throughout discussions about navigation, product detail and checkout.

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B2B ecommerce UX guidelines

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B2B UX performance scores

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B2B best practice examples

Key UX challenges for B2B

Evaluate the steps buyers take to find, assess and order products. B2B research gives teams concrete examples and evaluation criteria they can use throughout discussions about navigation, product detail and checkout.

Finding a product

Support buyers who browse categories as well as those arriving with a specific search in mind.

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Evaluating alternatives

Make product lists useful for narrowing a large range and understanding relevant differences.

Explore product list research

Understanding the details

Give buyers a clear route through the product information they need before ordering.

Explore product page research

Ordering and returning

Review checkout and account journeys together so buyers can complete an order and manage what follows.

Explore ordering research

The evidence behind B2B UX

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Business-to-Business

Baymard’s UX research provides you with 270+ UX guidelines for B2B ecommerce sites, along with 9,000+ UX performance scores and 4,600+ best practice examples from B2B ecommerce sites.

The research includes large-scale usability testing and UX benchmarking of B2B sites such as: B2B Electronic Components & Machinery: Analog Devices, Arrow Electronics, Avnet, Bossard, CoreStaff, Digi-Key Electronics, B2B Medical & Pharma: McKesson, Medline, Henry Schein, Sigma Aldrich, Waters, Abcam, Construction: Northern Tool and Grainger. Office: Staples and Office Depot.
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The wider research foundation behind the guidance

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Start with the B2B research relevant to your buyers

Explore the B2B overview and its specialist studies to understand which research applies to your catalog and buying journey.

Discuss your site and the journeys you want reviewed with the audit team. The service can be scoped around your needs.

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B2B UX research and expert audit overview

B2B UX questions

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The overview includes electronic components, machinery, medical and pharma, construction and office ecommerce. Specialist studies provide more detail for electronic components and medical purchasing.


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What Baymard clients have to say

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GE Healthcare Logo
“I’m reviewing the report this morning and I am delighted. The recommendations are detailed and our resulting actions are clear. I’m excited to share this with the rest of the team!”

Donal Phipps

Digital Marketing Leader at GE Healthcare

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Kingfisher PLC Logo
“The Baymard E-commerce Usability reports have proven to be a valuable resource for UX teams within our organisation both at group and operating company level. The reports contain precise, actionable insights and recommendations which are backed up by extensive research and data. The severity and frequency ratings have helped our development teams to prioritise which areas to improve first. The most recent improvements we’ve recommended from the Ecommerce Search report have been extremely well received by senior stakeholders and have already been fed into the backlog.”

Claire White

UX Specialist for Kingfisher PLC

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Bosch Thermotechnology Logo
“Thank you very much for your time and the presentation. It was super useful, comprehensive and most importantly very concrete, so that we know exactly what to do next. We will definitely recommend you to other divisions within Bosch.”

Dominik Weber

Digital Marketing Manager at Bosch Thermotechnology

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SiteOne Landscape Supply Logo
“Baymard recently did a UX audit of our new e-commerce Website. We were very pleased with the results. The report and live review of the findings validated our approach to user experience, and also, we learned a lot about best practices for e-commerce UX. We believe Baymard’s work will help us increase revenue and user satisfaction.”

Colleen Romero

Digital Marketing Director at SiteOne Landscape Supply

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Deloitte Digital Logo
“Baymard’s training provides the proper language and sound evidence to understand what it means to create a truly usable interface in the ecommerce business.”

Semion Lapin

UX Designer at Deloitte Digital

Make business purchasing easier to navigate

Give your team practical evidence for improving discovery, evaluation and ordering on your B2B site.