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"An eye opener. This UX audit helped validate assumptions we had and provided visibility on issues we overlooked."
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Will Close, Director of A/B testing at Nike.com
Make it easier for prospective learners to explore your catalog, compare courses, and understand an offer before they commit. Baymard’s online learning research gives your team evidence for the enrollment journey. Apply the guidelines in design work, or ask an expert to assess the UX of your own website.
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Explore online learning guidelines and examples spanning course discovery, filtering, course pages, cart and checkout, customer accounts, and site-wide navigation to inform your design decisions.
Get an expert assessment of your online learning website, with prioritized recommendations and implementation examples drawn from the industry to support your team’s next improvements.
Baymard’s online learning evidence includes Udemy, DataCamp, MasterClass, Skillshare, Codecademy, Domestika, and CreativeLive. Explore how the course shopping journey is evaluated, from finding a relevant option to completing a purchase.
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UX performance scores
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Baymard’s online learning evidence includes Udemy, DataCamp, MasterClass, Skillshare, Codecademy, Domestika, and CreativeLive. Explore how the course shopping journey is evaluated, from finding a relevant option to completing a purchase.
Review homepage navigation and search to help prospective learners explore the available courses and reach relevant areas of your catalog.
Examine course lists and filtering so people can narrow their options and move toward a manageable choice.
Use course page research to assess the presentation and organization of the information people need before purchasing.
Review cart, checkout, and customer accounts as connected parts of the course purchase experience.

The findings from Baymard’s large-scale testing of Online Learning sites provide you with 170+ UX guidelines, along with 2,600+ UX performance scores and 1,600+ implementation examples (incl. best practices) from Online Learning sites.
The research includes Online Learning websites such as:See the scope of Baymard’s online learning research and the sites included in the overview. Use this context to evaluate where your own course shopping experience needs attention.
An online learning audit assesses your website and compares its UX with industry peers, then provides prioritized recommendations with implementation examples.
Explore research for related industries and customer journeys.
The study focuses on the ecommerce journey for online learning: navigation, search, course lists, course pages, checkout, and customer accounts.

“I just wanted to take a minute to thank you for the amazing work on this audit. You should know that this has been very well received internally and there’s a lot of excitement around adopting the ideas you have shared.”

“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!”

“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.”

“An eye opener. This UX audit helped validate assumptions we had regarding our site but also provided visibility on issues we overlooked. Recommendations were in-depth and provided ways for improvements.”

“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.”
Explore the online learning research or discuss an audit to understand where your enrollment journey can improve.
"An eye opener. This UX audit helped validate assumptions we had and provided visibility on issues we overlooked."
Michael Tran, Sr. Business Analyst at Sony PlayStation
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