Online Learning UX

Help learners find a course they can choose with confidence

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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Online Learning ecommerce UX research and design examples

Online Learning UX research

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.

Online Learning UX audits

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.

Research focused on choosing and purchasing courses

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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Key UX challenges for Online Learning

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.

Discovering courses

Review homepage navigation and search to help prospective learners explore the available courses and reach relevant areas of your catalog.

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Comparing course options

Examine course lists and filtering so people can narrow their options and move toward a manageable choice.

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Evaluating a course

Use course page research to assess the presentation and organization of the information people need before purchasing.

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Purchasing and returning

Review cart, checkout, and customer accounts as connected parts of the course purchase experience.

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The evidence behind Online Learning UX

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Online Learning

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:
Udemy, DataCamp, MasterClass, Skillshare, Codecademy, Domestika, and CreativeLive
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The wider research foundation behind the guidance

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Explore the evidence behind course shopping

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.

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Online Learning UX research and expert audit overview

Online Learning UX questions

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The study focuses on the ecommerce journey for online learning: navigation, search, course lists, course pages, checkout, and customer accounts.


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What Baymard clients have to say

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“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.”

Sudeep Agarwal

Growth Manager at Google Shopping

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“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!”

Ariana Biedebach

Manager, UX Research at Levi Strauss & Co.

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“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

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“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.”

Michael Tran

Sr. Business Analyst at Sony PlayStation

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“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.”

Kerry McAleer

Former Director of UX Research at Sears

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Explore the online learning research or discuss an audit to understand where your enrollment journey can improve.