Merchandise & Print-to-Order UX

Help customers move from product ideas to completed orders

Give your team a research foundation for improving merchandise and print-to-order shopping. Explore how customers find products, compare options, evaluate product pages, and complete checkout. Apply industry research to everyday design decisions, or use an expert UX audit to identify and prioritize improvements for your own website.

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Example Merchandise & Print-to-Order site rated against Baymard's Merchandise & Print-to-Order UX guidelines

Merchandise & Print-to-Order UX research

Explore guidelines and implementation examples from merchandise and print-to-order sites to support decisions across navigation, product discovery, product pages, accounts, and checkout.

Merchandise & Print-to-Order UX audits

Get an expert review of your merchandise or print-to-order website, with prioritized recommendations, implementation examples, and a comparison against other sites in the industry.

Research for merchandise and print-to-order journeys

Baymard’s research includes sites such as VistaPrint, Printify, Zazzle, and Custom Ink. Use the findings and documented implementation examples to give your team a shared basis for evaluating the shopping experience.

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Merchandise and print-to-order UX guidelines

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Industry implementation examples

Merchandise & Print-to-Order UX research

Connect product choice with a clear path to personalization

Merchandise and print orders require people to choose a suitable product and understand how they can make it their own. Use industry research to improve the connections between browsing, product information, personalization and purchase, helping customers understand their options as they move through an order.

Explore research-backed guidelines, annotated examples and industry benchmarks to inform design reviews, briefs and the improvements your team wants to test.

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Examples of merchandise and print-to-order websites studied by Baymard
Merchandise & Print-to-Order UX audit

Find the priorities for your merchandise and print-to-order experience

A merchandise and print-to-order UX audit applies the research to your website through an expert review and prioritized recommendations.

Get prioritized findings, practical recommendations and implementation examples to help your team decide what to improve first. Discuss the journeys and any competitor comparisons you want included, and agree the scope with the audit team.

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Key UX challenges for Merchandise & Print-to-Order

Baymard’s research includes sites such as VistaPrint, Printify, Zazzle, and Custom Ink. Use the findings and documented implementation examples to give your team a shared basis for evaluating the shopping experience.

Finding the right product

Review category navigation, search, and filtering so customers can work through your merchandise catalog and reach relevant products.

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Evaluating product pages

Support product decisions with a clear page structure, useful product information, and an understandable path toward ordering.

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Completing the order

Assess the cart and checkout experience, from reviewing selected products to entering the information needed to place an order.

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Returning to an account

Review customer account features and site-wide navigation alongside the first purchase journey.

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Merchandise & Print-to-Order UX questions

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The research spans navigation, search, product lists and filtering, product pages, cart and checkout, customer accounts, site-wide features, and loyalty.


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What Baymard clients have to say

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StickerMule.com Logo
“Wow, this is great! Just reviewed it with the team. It’s a huge help and we’re excited to fix these issues.”

Anthony Thomas

UX responsible at StickerMule.com

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Staples Logo
“Baymard's audit services give us a detailed view of usability improvements across our entire site. This is so much more comprehensive than running individual usability studies.”

Gideon Ansell

UX Director, Global eCommerce at Staples

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Office Depot Logo
“Baymard has been a great resource in helping us improve the customer experience. We are continually applying these best practices to our sites.”

Bryan Trogdon

Director of User Experience at Office Depot

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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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Hallmark Cards, Inc. Logo
“The walkthrough today was great. The report was very, very well done and loaded with great opportunities for us to improve our business. I wanted to again express my appreciation for working with us on such a condensed time frame last month. You and your team have been amazing partners to us and we very much appreciate the work, expertise and partnership.”

Wendy Bonnstetter

UX Director at Hallmark Cards, Inc.

Give every product decision a stronger foundation

Explore merchandise research for your team, or discuss an audit of the shopping journey you want to improve.