boost your mobile ecommerce sales with mobile design patterns

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Boost Your Mobile E-Commerce Sales with Mobile Design Patterns When people shop on their mobile phones they expect an experience similar to or better than the one at physical store. As more and more people are using smartphones for accessing the web for activities like, browsing their favorite sites, banking, playing games, shopping and purchasing. As a designer we need to create mobile optimized sites to attract as many users as we wanted to shop for our products or services. Also if your site is not mobile friendly, Google’s search engine ranking will suffer.

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Boost Your Mobile E-Commerce Sales with Mobile

Design Patterns

When people shop on their mobile phones they expect an experience

similar to or better than the one at physical store.

As more and more people are using smartphones for accessing the web

for activities like, browsing their favorite sites, banking, playing games,

shopping and purchasing. As a designer we need to create mobile

optimized sites to attract as many users as we wanted to shop for our

products or services. Also if your site is not mobile friendly, Google’s

search engine ranking will suffer.

If you want more traffic or boost sales for your ecommerce store you

must adopt these design patterns or techniques to meet the

expectations and improve your site’s functionality. Recent research

stated that people are 67% more likely to convert if a website they’ve

reached on their phone is mobile-friendly.

In this article, we’ll look at some design patterns and web development

approaches used for mobile e-commerce functionality, includes the

following:

Home pages,

Site-wide navigation,

Suggested search,

Search results,

Search filtering and sorting,

Product pages,

Photo galleries,

Shopping carts,

Checking out with an account or as a guest,

Forms.

Home pages

Design your home page with less textual content and help your

customers to find what they are looking for. Display the promotions or

discounts you offer. Single column pattern displaying products, list of

links to specific website areas, availability of search options are

common design patterns that work favorably.

Navigation

Thought there are several ways to design the menu but having

navigation menus in the header section to easily move from one part of

the site to other without having to return to the home page. Many

large ecommerce websites balance the visual design of the navigation

with the information displayed on the website

Suggested search

Suggested search or you can say autocomplete display the potential

results as soon as a shopper has typed their query for this you can use

the auto suggest pattern that depend on the search engine technology

Search results:

There are two most commonly used pattern on mobile ecommerce

websites table display and grid display. You can also allow shoppers to

switch between the two views.

Sorting results

Common interface patterns for sorting are buttons and <select> menus.

Filtering Results

This enable the users to filter their results based on one or more

attributes, like color, brand and size. Common interface patterns for

displaying filtering options are <select>menus, drop-down lists and

accordion displays

Product pages

Pages where you can showcase all of your products in detail. It

includes two approaches one long page showing all products with

information or a page with collection of patterns such as accordions,

tabs and photo galleries.

Shopping Cart

Use table pattern for shopping cart products. Also offer other

functionality, such as, to remove or add products, to save a product to a

favorites or wish list, apply coupons, change the shipping address and

so on.

Checkout

Limiting the initial checkout screen to two choices could improve

conversions

Conclusion

Due to the increase in internet sales, ecommerce store owners are

continuously working on improving their online store functionality or

creating a mobile optimized website design as consumers are more

willing to purchase from the site which is mobile-friendly.

You can choose these design patterns for your ecommerce website. Or

you can install google analytics to analyze your customer’s behavior to

boost your sales and in a way your brand image.