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Rakuten UX Case Study

This is an old and partial case study of Rakuten’s ecommerce user experience (UX) performance. We encourage you to explore the 325 up-to-date and exhaustive case studies of major ecommerce sites for a complete and current picture of the ecommerce UX landscape.

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Rakuten’s Desktop Web Ecommerce Design

28 pages of Rakuten’s ecommerce site, marked up with 286 best practice examples:

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Rakuten’s Mobile Web Ecommerce Design

17 pages of Rakuten’s ecommerce site, marked up with 150 best practice examples:

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Every week, we publish a new article on how to build “state of the art” ecommerce experiences — here’s 5 popular ones:

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