The web equivalent of luxury fashion stores with only few, beautiful dresses exposed, are minimalist carts with reduced command options and spare graphic elements displayed.
A good example of this trend in web design is Via Snella, a Swedish male fashion online store unburdened from any superfluous graphical element.
Even if mega drop-down menu perform better than the regular ones (at least according to this Jackob Nielsen’s study), I still don’t love them.
Except for cases like this, when, huge panels makes me understand at a glance the whole website’s taxonomy, sparing me the time of browsing endlessly from a level to another and providing [...]
If you think that ecommerce web sites aim is to convert browsers into buyers, crafting simple, functional and friendly fact sheet pages is a key factor to your business success.
So, I really liked this layout from Orlebar Brown online shop, where a few options are neatly separated by big red bullets and a numbered list [...]
A more than essential ecommerce layout from Berg & Berg, a website selling basically accessories for men and women. We loved the use of a monospaced font for highlighting the navigation link in the product fact sheet and the fancy shopping bag in the top left corner.
Glossy buttons age it’s not over yet and so we quite enjoyed Madsen Cycles ecommerce buttons because they really stand out in opposition to the overall layout minimalism.
Kiehl’s online store is one of the most accurate and fully equipped ecommerce website I’ve ever seen.
You can find:
a neatly separated sign in area;
a global website navigation;
a products tabbed navigation;
a simple breadcrumb trail;
a facet navigation duplicated: on the top as drop down menu, on the left as checkbox choices;
detailed product listing with quick shop (it [...]
I’m a typomaniac, I confess, and my favorites ecommerce websites are most of all digital foundries’ websites.
Usually this kind of website displays clean, sophisticated layout grids with minimal graphics elements such as horizontal dividers and flat geometrical buttons.
Big headings and wide, spacious whitespaces (which basically means removing all the graphic overbearing elements from the page) [...]
Even if language is unfathomable for us and online translators are of any help, we do love this clean, minimal red and white product page from Muji Japan online store. Every block is squared, lines are perpendicular and every details is finely designed in an accurate, minimalist way: for example the beige and red callout [...]
Christmas time is coming and since Santa last year has been quite generous with us, we think this time we could help giving him some tips.
So we’ve collected ten great online shop, with inspiring layouts too, where you may find some ideas for your gifts and some snips of beautiful web design interfaces too.
1.The Cold [...]
Japonshop is an online ecommerce website dedicated to selling Japanese food.
We loved the unusual (for an ecommerce website) gray and pink palette, the clean products listing, the distinctly visible add to cart button and the funny manga-styled logo. Yummy!
Let’s have a toast for our newborn inspirational category: Ecommerce websites. From now on we’re going to collect everything related to ecommerce and online shopping: buttons, carts, listing, copywriting…
For a start, here you are Plus de bulles websites, where you can find a nice crate-like cart (on the top left), a slideshow that displays the [...]
