10 ultimate design tipsfor building a greatonline store

1. Keep it as clean as possible.

Don’t place too many images, popups other things that might cause distraction. Don't let your customer get lost!

2. Simple navigation

Create categories, and vary them as much as possible. Have a search bar, it allows customers to find what they are looking way faster than browsing through categories.

3. Product details.

Provide as much information as you can about the products.Include info about the materials, colours, sizes, weight, multiple high quality images, videos, etc.

4. Visible shopping cart.

Display the shopping cart in every page, so customers can quickly add new items and see what they picked so far. Make the “Add to cart” button stand out, just to encourage people to make a purchase decision.

5. Simple checkout process.

Don’t confuse your customers with too many boxes to fill, make the process of filing credit card details and closing the deal easy and fast.

6. Variety of payment possibilities.

Allow customers to pay in a various ways, with different credit or debit cards, using PayPal or directly from their bank account.

7. Go easy on pop ups.

To many pop ups can really get cause negative user experience. Nobody likes when popups appear in the middle of browsing and choosing.

8. Great customer service.

Make it clear how customers can reach you and don’t hide the “contact” bar. Place a FAQ with the most common questions along with details about customer service working hours.

9. Power of reviews.

Make the “Review” section visible, and simple to fill, without the necessity to register. This will help you to get nice feedback to improve your store and it will create an image of a business focused on customers needs.

10. Include the social sharing buttons.

It doesn’t matter if you are not planning to gather an army of followers on

social media. Providing social sharing possibility will come in handy for your

website’s SEO and you never know when someone wants to share, and

promote you this way.

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