Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) UX

Give shoppers a reason to choose your brand

Baymard’s D2C UX research gives your team data on how shoppers discover products and judge an unfamiliar brand. Make stronger design decisions with UX Standards built for brands selling directly to consumers.

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A D2C website assessed against Baymard UX Standards

D2C UX research

Get access to D2C UX Standards and 10,000+ examples for your design work.

D2C UX audits

Get an expert review of your D2C store. Find out which UX issues to fix first.

Put research behind your next D2C decision

Our D2C library combines UX Standards, benchmark scores and examples from real stores. Use it to explain your design choices and agree what to work on next.

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D2C UX Standards

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D2C UX performance scores

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D2C best-practice examples

D2C UX research

Take the guesswork out of D2C design

Understand how shoppers find products, judge them and decide what to buy. We offer D2C UX Standards, annotated examples and benchmarks to help you make those design decisions.

Use Baymard when reviewing your brand story, product pages and the way shoppers browse your catalog.

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D2C store examples from Baymard’s UX research
D2C UX audit

Get a clear plan for your D2C site

Baymard reviews your D2C store against our UX Standards. Your team gets prioritized findings and examples so you know what to change first.

Focus the review on the shopping journeys that matter to your business. Book a call to agree the scope, including any competitor comparisons.

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D2C UX benchmark comparing store performance

What makes shoppers trust a D2C store?

Understand where shoppers need more information before they buy directly from you.

Brand and product story

Show shoppers what makes your products different with details they can judge for themselves.

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Product details and images

Show how products look and work so shoppers can judge your brand’s claims.

Explore product page UX

Product discovery

Make your catalog easy to browse, with fewer steps to the right products.

Explore D2C navigation

Reviews and trust

Understand why shoppers question reviews on your site and look for other product information.

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Your D2C UX questions, answered

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Our D2C research covers navigation, product discovery and product pages through to checkout and accounts. We also examine brand storytelling, images and what shoppers need to trust an unfamiliar brand.


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Nike Inc. Logo
“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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Ōura Ring Logo
“First off, thank you. This was the most engrossed I’ve ever been in a 2-hour meeting. This [audit presentation] was incredibly insightful and very helpful. Many, many thanks.”

Yvonne Kim

Head of E-Commerce at Ōura Ring

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Lenovo Logo
“Excellent tool – looking forward to using it with our other sites and prototypes as they’re developed.”

Leah Kaufman

Senior UX Research Manager at Lenovo

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“We found the audits extremely helpful and validated a number of changes we have been wanting to make or are in the process of making, so thank again for all the great insights.”

Colleen Kersting

eCommerce Marketing at Harley-Davidson

Make your next D2C decision with confidence

Bring research into your next design review. We’ll show you the D2C UX Standards and examples that can help your team decide what to work on.