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Product pages ultimately exist for one reason: to showcase a product a shopper is interested in and close the sale. It's where we put our washing machines, dresses, and shoes on display to convince our shoppers that this is what they’ve been looking for, and that we're the ones to buy from.

Here, it's super important that the next steps visually stand out to make it as easy as possible for shoppers to place an item into their carts. There's nothing worse than a frustrating user experience at this stage.

How then can we direct users' attention to where it matters most? This article will show you 3 ways to make your product pages more effective:

Booking.com has a reputation for being one of the most heavily A/B-tested websites on the internet. Every feature, every font size and every color choice has been put to the test at some point. It's one of the reasons that Booking has been so successful in an incredibly competitive travel booking space.

 The most basic job of web design is to ensure that users can find what they're looking for as quickly and easily as possible. This is where visual hierarchy comes in, a concept originating from 20th century Gestalt Psychology, which explains how websites can lead or direct users' eyes via certain visual cues.

 The 4th of July is nearly upon us, and US retailers are scrambling to promote their holiday sales. One of these retailers is Lowe’s, and today we’re going to critique the popular hardware chain’s current (June 28, 2017) homepage design as part of our new series of Data Driven Design Critiques.

By now, most companies of a certain size have made at least one attempt to institutionalize UX. But few have managed to truly make it a fluid part of their everyday design processes.

In our last post we wrote about the challenges posed by the modern Distraction Economy: how information overload has created a growing gap between the amount of information we’re faced with every day, and our capacity to consume that information. We’re all suffering from information overload, so it's no surprise that the clearest messages are the ones that rise above the noise.

[Note: this post is also available as a SlideShare presentation.}

Information overload: two words that succinctly describe the reality of modern life. Since the advent of the internet, the amount of information available to us has grown exponentially - to the point where the scale of information in existence is nearly incomprehensible.

Heat maps: it’s probably the broadest, most popular category of insight tools available to any company that wants to understand and improve the user experience on their website.

Carousels. Sliders. Rotating banners. Whatever you call them, we all know them. They inhabit the home pages of most eCommerce and corporate websites, much to the chagrin of experts and the annoyance of users everywhere.

 It's one of the oldest debates in web design and digital marketing: which color should you use for call to action buttons?