Sports Gear & Equipment UX

Help shoppers find and evaluate the gear they need

Give sports shoppers a clearer route through your range, from browsing categories to evaluating equipment and completing a purchase. Baymard’s sports gear research provides a shared foundation for product and design teams. Use its guidelines and examples to guide changes, or get an expert audit of your website’s most important improvement opportunities.

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Sports Gear & Equipment ecommerce UX research and design examples

Sports Gear & Equipment UX research

Explore sports ecommerce research covering navigation, search, product filtering, detailed product pages, checkout, and accounts, with examples from specialist retailers and sports brands.

Sports Gear & Equipment UX audits

Get a confidential review of your sports ecommerce website, with prioritized recommendations, supporting implementation examples, and an assessment of your performance alongside industry peers.

Evidence for sports retail design decisions

Baymard’s research spans sports equipment retailers and sports brands, including REI, SportChek, Nike, and Adidas. Use the guidelines and examples to evaluate how your site supports discovery, product decisions, and purchase.

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sports ecommerce UX guidelines

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UX performance scores

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best practice examples

Key UX challenges for Sports Gear & Equipment

Baymard’s research spans sports equipment retailers and sports brands, including REI, SportChek, Nike, and Adidas. Use the guidelines and examples to evaluate how your site supports discovery, product decisions, and purchase.

Exploring the equipment range

Review navigation and search across your sports catalog so shoppers can reach relevant product categories and results.

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Filtering and comparing gear

Assess product lists and filters as tools for helping shoppers narrow a wide range of equipment options.

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Evaluating product details

Review the structure and content of product pages to support informed choices before shoppers add gear to their cart.

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Completing purchases

Examine the checkout journey and account tools so the experience supports both purchasing and returning customers.

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The evidence behind Sports Gear & Equipment UX

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Sports Gear & Equipment

The findings from Baymard’s large-scale testing of Sports Gear & Equipment ecommerce websites provide you with 500+ UX guidelines, along with 5,200+ UX performance scores and 4,000+ best practice examples from Sports Gear & Equipment sites.

The research includes large-scale usability testing and UX benchmarking of websites such as:
adidas, Nike, Cabela's, All About Dance, Dick's Sporting Goods, SportChek,
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The wider research foundation behind the guidance

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Explore research across sports retail

See the scope of research covering sports brands and retailers such as REI, Cabela’s, SportChek, Evo, Backcountry, Nike, and Adidas.

A sports gear audit assesses your site against the research framework and turns industry comparisons into prioritized recommendations.

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Sports Gear & Equipment UX research and expert audit overview

Sports Gear & Equipment UX questions

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Yes. The overview includes specialist equipment retailers and sports brands, with research across sites such as REI, Cabela’s, SportChek, Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour.


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What Baymard clients have to say

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“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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“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

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“This was indeed very helpful guidance and a very well-documented roadmap for us to fix, validate, organize, collectively understand and continually improve our ecommerce foundation.”

Cat Brunson

UX Manager at Columbia Sportswear

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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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“Every day of the training was accompanied by a list of discoveries that I could directly design solutions for into my site. I was able to bring these designed solutions home with me and kickoff multiple optimization projects that I am confident will affect the site in a positive way, both in usability and conversion. Being able to have Christian and Lauryn from Baymard Institute look over my shoulder and give me feedback and direction based on the 28,000 hours of independent research that their organization has done was incredibly helpful.”

Nick Frame

Lead UX Designer for TaylorMade Golf

Bring evidence to your next sports ecommerce decision

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