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Christian Holst - 10 Requirements For Making Home Page Carousels Work For End Users (If Needed)

Are home page carousels actually helpful to users? Or are they simply popular because they are an easy tool for solving internal discussions in large organizations about who gets to put their banner

Design Patterns , Best Practices , ux , Usability , Web Design

Christian Holst - Infinite Scrolling, Pagination Or “Load More” Buttons? Usability Findings In eCommerce

What is the best UX pattern to display products on an e-commerce website: pagination, a “Load more” button or infinite scrolling? At Baymard Institute, we’ve conducted several year-long large-scale

ux , Usability , E-Commerce

Christian Holst - Responsive Upscaling: Large-Screen E-Commerce Design

The responsive design revolution is truly upon us (if it hasn’t already happened!), and even though e-commerce websites haven’t picked up responsive design quite as aggressively as in other industri

Responsive Design , ux , E-Commerce , Design

Christian Holst - The Current State Of E-Commerce Filtering

When done right, filters enable users to narrow down a website’s selection of thousands of products to only those few items that match their particular needs and interests. Yet, despite it being a c

Navigation , ux , Usability , E-Commerce

Christian Holst - The Current State Of E-Commerce Search

When e-commerce search works, it’s fast, convenient and efficient. It’s no wonder that so many users prefer searching over clicking categories. Unfortunately, our recent large-scale usability study

ux , E-Commerce

Christian Holst - An E-Commerce Study: Guidelines For Better Navigation And Categories

Product findability is key to any e-commerce business — after all, if customers can’t find a product, they can’t buy it. Therefore, at Baymard Institute, we invested eight months conducting a large-

Navigation , ux , Usability , E-Commerce , Design

Christian Holst - Exploring 10 Fundamental Aspects Of M-Commerce Usability

Everyone is talking about mobile. Some e-commerce websites are venturing into it. Mobile commerce (also known as “m-commerce”) has immense potential, exhibiting a 86% growth rate and hitting $25 bil

User Research , ux , Usability

Christian Holst - Account Creation, Standalone Mobile Websites, And Dealing With Non-UX Designers

Editor’s note: Welcome to Smashing Magazine UX Design QA. It works like this: you send in questions you have about UX Design, and each month we’ll pick a handful of questions asked by our readers ab

Interaction Design , mobile , ux , Process

Christian Holst - Adaptive Vs. Responsive Layouts And Optimal Form Field Labels

Editor’s note: Welcome to a new column in the UX Design section on Smashing Magazine! Each month we’ll pick a handful of popular questions asked by our readers around good practices in designing sma

ux , Usability , ui

Christian Holst - The State Of E-Commerce Checkout Design 2012

A year ago we published an article on 11 fundamental guidelines for e-commerce checkout design here at Smashing Magazine. The guidelines presented were based on the 63 findings of a larger E-Commerc

User Research , ux , Studies , E-Commerce

Christian Holst - Form-Field Validation: The Errors-Only Approach

Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. You’ve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated page thrown back in your face because a single field failed to validate. I cl

Interaction Design , Forms , ux , Usability

Christian Holst - Redesigning The Country Selector

However, when conducting a large session of user testing on check-out usability (which we wrote about here on Smashing Magazine back in April 2011), we consistently found usability issues with the m

Interaction Design , Design Patterns , Best Practices , ux , Usability , Design

Christian Holst - Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design

Here is the harsh reality of e-commerce websites: according to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of potential customers abandon their shopping cart (MarketingSherpa puts it at 59.8%, SeeWhy

Security , ux , Usability , E-Commerce