Ulta Beauty UX Case Study
This is a case study of Ulta Beauty’s e-commerce user experience (UX) performance. It’s based on an exhaustive performance review of 516 design elements. 250 other sites have also been benchmarked for a complete picture of the e-commerce UX landscape.
Ulta Beauty’s overall e-commerce UX performance is mediocre. This is mainly due to perfect Site-Wide Features while simultaneously having poor Homepage & Category and Customer Accounts.
First benchmarked in September 2021, and reviewed 3 times since then, most recently in February 2023.
Overall UX Performance
832 Guidelines · Performance:
Desktop Web
458 Guidelines · Performance:
Homepage & Category
31 Guidelines · Performance:
On-Site Search
46 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Lists & Filtering
85 Guidelines · Performance:
Product Page
101 Guidelines · Performance:
Cart & Checkout
118 Guidelines · Performance:
Customer Accounts
38 Guidelines · Performance:
Site-Wide Features
12 Guidelines · Performance:
Order Tracking & Returns
27 Guidelines · Performance:
Mobile Web
374 Guidelines · Performance:
To learn how we calculate our performance scores and read up on our evaluation criteria and scoring algorithm head over to our Methodology page.
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Ulta Beauty’s Desktop Web E-Commerce Design
21 pages of Ulta Beauty’s e-commerce site, marked up with 271 best practice examples:
Ulta Beauty’s Mobile Web E-Commerce Design
13 pages of Ulta Beauty’s e-commerce site, marked up with 139 best practice examples:
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