Health & Beauty UX

Make Health & Beauty Shopping Easier to Navigate

Help shoppers find relevant products, compare their options and move through checkout with confidence. Baymard’s health and beauty research gives your team a detailed view of the product-finding experience and the interactions around it. Apply the guidance in daily design work or use an expert audit to focus your next improvements.

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Health & Beauty ecommerce UX research and design examples

Health & Beauty UX research

Explore UX guidance for health and beauty browsing, product lists, product pages and checkout. Use research and industry examples to assess options and explain design recommendations.

Health & Beauty UX audits

Get an expert assessment of your health or beauty website across desktop and mobile, with prioritized recommendations, implementation examples and a confidential comparison of UX performance.

Understand the Health & Beauty Product-Finding Experience

The research examines broad shopping behaviors and detailed interface issues across health and beauty sites. It connects navigation, search and product evaluation with checkout, account features and returning-customer tasks.

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Health & Beauty UX Guidelines

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Industry UX Performance Scores

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Industry Best Practice Examples

Key UX challenges for Health & Beauty

The research examines broad shopping behaviors and detailed interface issues across health and beauty sites. It connects navigation, search and product evaluation with checkout, account features and returning-customer tasks.

Finding Products

Give shoppers useful routes through categories and search so they can explore your range and locate relevant products.

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Lists & Filtering

Evaluate how product attributes, thumbnails and filters help customers narrow the health and beauty options presented to them.

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Product Evaluation

Review the information, imagery and interactions shoppers use to understand an item before deciding to add it to their cart.

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Checkout & Returning Customers

Support the transition to purchase and the account, self-service and loyalty interactions customers use on later visits.

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The evidence behind Health & Beauty UX

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Health & Beauty

The findings from Baymard’s large-scale testing of Health & Beauty sites provide you with 490+ UX guidelines, along with 5,000+ UX performance scores and 4,000+ best practice examples from Health & Beauty sites.

The UX research covers the entire health and beauty product-finding experience, ranging from broad user behaviors to the granular usability issues observed in our sessions.

The research includes large-scale usability testing and UX benchmarking of websites such as:
Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Avène USA, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, e.l.f. Cosmetics, Estée Lauder,
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The wider research foundation behind the guidance

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Put Your Beauty Shopping Experience in Context

The research includes experiences from health and beauty retailers and brands such as Sephora, Ulta Beauty, Kiehl’s and Walgreens. Explore the coverage and examples to understand how different shopping tasks are assessed.

An expert audit applies the research to your site and documents opportunities across desktop and mobile, with prioritized recommendations and relevant examples for your team.

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Health & Beauty UX research and expert audit overview

Health & Beauty UX questions

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The research includes specialist beauty brands, beauty retailers and health retailers. Its published coverage spans the shopping journey, from product discovery to accounts and self-service.


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What Baymard clients have to say

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“The UX audit was very thorough and valuable insights were provided. It's particularly helpful to know which recommendations are the most impactful and lower in cost. It's also helpful to see which issues are the biggest offenders and how we stack up to the selected competitors.”

Ariella Galvin

Sr. Digital Merchandising Manager at CVS Health

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“Very insightful and interesting. Marilyn was great and explained the audit really clearly.”

Livia Biondino

Lead Product Designer at Charlotte Tilbury

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“The recommendations in our audit were awesome - well-prioritized, actionable and helped us focus on what to optimize. This audit, along with the ecommerce database access, are my go-to resources for thorough, insightful information. Thank you!”

Erin Straub

UX Design Manager at Nutrisystem

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“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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“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

Focus Your Next Health & Beauty UX Improvements

Explore the research for your team or discuss a confidential audit of your health and beauty ecommerce experience.