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Ecommerce Store Design: 5 Tips to Help you Sell More

Ari Krzyzek — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:05:12 +0000

Clunky layouts, dreary aesthetics and a confusing user experience can ruin the online shopping experience. Understanding how to effectively design your ecommerce site can go a long way in building your clientele, increasing loyalty and driving sales. The tips below are top-level concepts that should be employed in all phases of store design – so whether you are starting from scratch, re-launching with a fresh UI or making small tweaks to a layout that is performing well, it is critical to keep these 5 ideas top of mind.

Make your site easy to navigate. Not every person that visits your site will be on the same level of web literacy, or able to view from the same type of equipment. Try and keep your pages simple; overloaded web pages can be intimidating or even distracting to consumers. It is fine to include supplements to your page’s primary mission, but be wary of how prominent you make these in your design. Along the same lines, make your site name and logo a bold, noticeable part of your design. No one needs to be left guessing what site they have stumbled upon.
Know your audience. If your ecommerce site is geared toward the elderly, know better than to implement frivolous and color-happy backgrounds and images. Design choices should revolve around who you want to view your site, catering to your core demographics and buying audience. This type of marketing should be apparent and consistent throughout your site.
User interactivity. Allow customer reviews and comments, which add a certain degree of trust between customers and your business. The social interactivity may even serve as a potential source of sales/advertising. You may also want to look into security badges that are often incorporated into a web page to verify a site’s security when dealing with sensitive credit card information that is incredibly valuable to a customer.
Pay attention to what’s working. Your first site design should not be your last. Getting a firm grasp on what design choices work best for your business is important in maintaining healthy branding and, of course, sales rates. Don’t be afraid to interact with your customers when able; their design input is ultimately what matters to your business model and, thusly, your bottom line.
Let your users search. This is an important feature to have included in your ecommerce site. Search boxes are standard on all sites, business-related or not. Your customer will at one point or another go looking for this particular tool, and if they do not see it, that hinders not only your credibility but your site’s grade as a user-friendly market.

This post was provided by the marketing team at Vendio. For more information on how to start an online store and the steps you need to take to begin selling online, visit Vendio.com today.

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Guest Author: 30 Creative Clothing Ecommerce Website Designs

Ari Krzyzek — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:36:39 +0000

There are many e-commerce sites being published online in every minute. Ranging from the small in-house company to the giant company, all of them are trying to compete and and sell their product through their website. Though, not every single one of them display the products as excellent as the few others offer.

In clothing and fashion industry, beautiful design is their goal. The appearance of the product and overall website is their target to achieve the customer interest. With wonderful website design and easy to use navigation, the customer will be pleased to explore the clothing collections. Therefore, it will increase the chance of the customer to buy the product.

Although most of clothing or fashion website designs are unattractive, there are still some creative web designs left for this industry. In this post, you will find 30 creative clothing e-commerce website designs for your inspiration with explanation of what or how each of them demonstrate the excellent of the e-commerce design. Check out the full article here.

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Vesic Photography

Ari Krzyzek — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:17:43 +0000

Client: Vesic Photography
Project Type: Contest – Freelance Project
Media: Web Interface
Category: Website Redesign

Details…

This is the mock up for Vesic Photography redesign website for a website design contest. Below are the variations on the text column for this web designs mock up.

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Guest Author Post: Get And Give Design Feedback – Sites + Tips

Ari Krzyzek — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:25:03 +0000

Whenever we as designer working on a design project, we often find ourselves staring at the designs to look for the flaws. Most of the time we need others opinion or critiques to help us improving our design from the layout, spacing/kerning on the typography or text, the illustrations, icons, or event the concept. Alas we are limited to discuss about these with our client who expect us to solve these problems. However, there are numerous design community websites and web tools that can help us to get other perspective about our designs.

Working on a design project with multiple team members has many advantages in terms of getting as many output or ideas as we could. Yet when it comes to have no other team member but yourself, you can check these design community websites and web tool that will give you the feedback you need to make your design ready to go.

Plus there are tips on the do’s and don’t’s whenever you are receiving feedback or giving one. Read the full post Here.

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Frespiration! Web Layout

Ari Krzyzek — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:38:02 +0000

Client: Frespiration! [Frespiration.com]
Project Type: Team Project
Media: Web Interface
Category: Website Layout

Details…
The original theme which is used as the wordpress theme on this website is “Modicus Remix” by Zidalgo. I have changed the layout to match Frespiration! needs for the web. Click here to find out more about Frespiration! Mag. Below is the original look from the theme.

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Wine Author Mock Up

Ari Krzyzek — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:17:48 +0000

Client: Edwin Soon
Project Type: Freelance Project
Media: Web Interface
Category: Website – Mock Up

Details…
Edwin Soon has picked grapes, worked as a cellar rat and made wine in Australia , the US and in France . An enologist by training, he juggles many hats. He organizes wine competitions and sits on several international wine judging panels. He wanted the website to look professional unlike somebody else’s blog.

Note: He prefer the second mock up I created (see the other mock up)

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Yes Bali Creation Website

Ari Krzyzek — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 12:07:37 +0000

Client: Yes Bali Creations
Project Type: Freelance Project
Media: Web Interface
Category: Website Design

Details…
The client wants a complete online shop for his own clothes creations. He is from Paris and worked a long time for Hugo Boss and Zegna, along with other brands. He decided recently to move to Bali and start his own brand: YesBali. There won’t be any seasonal collections. He will just add products as they are designed.

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Featured On ToekangWeb Post: Indonesian Women Web Designers

Ari Krzyzek — Fri, 21 May 2010 20:52:02 +0000

Thanks to Moch Zamroni for featuring me in his post “Indonesian Women Web Designers”, really appreciate it.

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AAW – Project

Ari Krzyzek — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:37:19 +0000

Client: AAW – All Around the World
Project Type: Freelance Project
Media: 1. Identity ; 2. Web Interface
Category: 1. Logo ; 2. Website Design

Details…
AAW is a trading agents. The main purpose of the website is to sell full containers of furniture to their existing customers. The customers will be able to virtually fill their container on the website to make a pre-order. This pre-order will be send via email to AAW and to the customer. They sell virtually anything. They want the website to smell “cargo” with modern design, Mac OS / iphone style, round shapes, icons, shadows.

Note: They changed their mind and would like to keep the old logo instead of the new one at this moment.

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Hanabi Restaurant Web MockUp

Ari Krzyzek — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:06:28 +0000

Client: Hanabi Restaurant
Project Type: Contest
Media: Web Interface
Category: Website – Homepage

Details…
Mock up homepage design for the Japanese Restaurant.

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