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Toys, Crafts & Hobbies UX
Help customers turn an interest into the right product choice
Give shoppers a clear route through toys, craft materials, and hobby products, whether they arrive with a specific item in mind or want to explore. Baymard’s research supports your team’s decisions across product discovery, evaluation, and purchase. Use its guidelines or commission an expert assessment of your own ecommerce experience.
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Toys, Crafts & Hobbies UX research
Explore research and examples for toys, crafts, and hobby stores, covering category navigation, search, filters, product pages, checkout, and account experiences across the shopping journey.
Toys, Crafts & Hobbies UX audits
Have Baymard review your toys, crafts, or hobby website and identify prioritized improvements, supported by industry examples and a confidential analysis of UX performance.
Evidence across varied hobby shopping experiences
The research includes toy retailers, craft stores, and specialist hobby sites such as LEGO, Hobbycraft, Etsy, and Musician’s Friend. Explore the findings to support clearer product discovery and purchasing decisions.
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Key UX challenges for Toys, Crafts & Hobbies
The research includes toy retailers, craft stores, and specialist hobby sites such as LEGO, Hobbycraft, Etsy, and Musician’s Friend. Explore the findings to support clearer product discovery and purchasing decisions.
Exploring categories
Assess navigation and category structure so shoppers can browse the different interests and product types represented in your store.
Finding and filtering products
Review search and product lists to help people move from a broad interest or specific query to relevant options.
Evaluating product information
Examine product page content and structure so customers have useful information when deciding what to order.
Buying and managing an account
Review checkout and customer account features as part of a complete shopping experience, including customers returning to your store.
The evidence behind Toys, Crafts & Hobbies UX
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Toys, Crafts & Hobbies
The findings from Baymard's large-scale testing of Toys, Crafts & Hobbies ecommerce websites provide you with 490+ UX guidelines, along with 5,500+ UX performance scores and 4,500+ best practice examples from toys, crafts, and hobby sites.
The research includes large-scale usability testing and UX benchmarking of websites such as:Disney Store, Smyths, LEGO, Hobbycraft, MyToys.de, Gamestop, Hamleys,
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The wider research foundation behind the guidance
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Explore the range of industry evidence
See how the research covers toy, craft, and hobby experiences, with examples from Disney Store, LEGO, Hobbycraft, Etsy, and specialist retailers.
An audit assesses your own shopping experience and provides prioritized recommendations supported by examples and industry comparisons.
Related industries
Explore research for related industries and customer journeys.
Toys, Crafts & Hobbies UX questions
Does this research cover more than toy stores?
Yes. The study covers toys, crafts, and hobbies. Its examples include craft stores and specialist retailers alongside toy brands and stores.
Which shopping areas are included?
Can we use it for a specialist hobby catalog?
What does an industry audit deliver?
How can research help align our team?
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.”
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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.”
Testimonials
“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.”
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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.”
Give product discovery a stronger foundation
Explore the toys, crafts, and hobbies research or discuss an audit of your store’s shopping experience.