Far from the days of busy, gif infested homepages and gimmick based websites, modern online design seeks to make the user experience both subtle and supportive, and is built from the ground up to best optimize user centred design. While design fetishes come and go, like neon synth wave or cottage-core, the fundamentals of an experience-assistive user design remain the same. Following these key tips and tricks will help drive your consumers effortlessly through your store, and more frequently through the checkout.
- Start thinking about your UX design once you've established your brand, such as when a flagship product brings you stability, or once you start seeing a plateauing of your profits; your product has drawn in its natural market, now it's time to invest in a UX designer who will make sure your e-commerce store or brand website is best designed to optimize both user experience and sales.
- Take your time, work with your UX designer, and experiment. Perfecting a user centred design that's tailored to your tastes, your customer base's behaviour, and increases profitability by natural flow comes about through tedious but necessary trial and error, and a lot of cooperation and communication with your design team. Your patience will often pay off.
- UX design is a hybrid discipline, partly intuitive and partly analytical, a marriage of tightly structured design and wild creativity. Find the balance between both rather than favouring one at the expense of the other.
- There is no all-purpose UX design or user centred design template, and even brands under the same parent company will have vastly different needs based on the specific product or services they sell, in whatever quantity they sell them in, and to whomever their market base is. Design for yourself and your customers, not anyone else.
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