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25+ Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs – Part Two

Published February 23rd, 2009 in Galleries

Well-designed e-commerce sites can provide a more enjoyable user experience, and they can also be excellent sources of design inspiration. Of course, usability is far more important than appearance when it comes to creating a user-friendly e-commerce website, but having an attractive and usable site is a great combination. This collection is intended to showcase some e-commerce sites that have an attractive design.

For the first part of this series, please see 50 Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs.

If you like getting inspiration from well-designed e-commerce sites, you’ll love our new gallery site CartFrenzy.

Ginger Pup Lane

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Design by Humans

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Chop Shop

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Crate & Barrel

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TOOBYDO

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Bees andGees

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Ugmonk

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Walkie Talkie

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Super Lamb Banana

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The Little Zebra

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Soup Studios

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Life & Home

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i.Lumine

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Ralph Lauren Rugby

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The Ampersand Shoppe

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La Senza

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Sucre

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Little Kids Bedrooms

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Deckpeck

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Bronson Vitamins

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Wearable Print

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Uppercase

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Nort Berlin

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Armani Exchange

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Talbots

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Operation Phoenix

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57 Responses to “25+ Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs – Part Two”

Brandon Cox February 23rd, 2009

I love these links! Makes me very glad the e-commerce spectrum is catching up in terms of user experience and design. Much better than 18 white boxes of assorted sizes and zero padding.

fitness exercise equipment February 23rd, 2009

Nice Post. Thanks for sharing and keep posting more new info.

Thanks again.

Ken the tech February 23rd, 2009

deckpeck is really nice :)

Talita February 23rd, 2009

Thanks for this collection, great stuff.I was actually trying to put together a post exactly like this one a few weeks ago but I couldn’t find enough stand out ecommerce websites. Good digging!

Web Templates February 23rd, 2009

They are good designs but some of them are not search friendly and may not perform well in search engines.

Jacques van Heerden February 23rd, 2009

Nice list, some inspiration for my shop I will be opening soon! keep it up!

Timothy February 23rd, 2009

Awesome list! Very inspirational

Jonathan Kong February 23rd, 2009

This is by no means a exhaustive list of inspirational ecommerce sites but a good one still. It is said that aesthetics played a important role in credibility of the site. Looking forward to more gems on Vandelay. :)

Fabrizio February 23rd, 2009

Nice websites, some of them are really good sources of inspiration.
And I agree with the first comment :)

Amy Stoddard February 23rd, 2009

Nice collection. Would be nice to know which stores are using a canned (programming) shopping cart or a custom cart.

joyoge designers' bookmark February 23rd, 2009

very nice e-commerce sites thanks for list..

thomas romer February 23rd, 2009

Thanks for the mention. We get on a few of these kinds of lists and its good to get the designer love. We are also The Chopping Block, Inc. a design firm which is where the work was done.

I would like to extend %15 off to your readers as well if anyone is interested. Use “blogarious” during checkout to apply to the contents of your cart. It even works with the dirt cheap tees for under $10!

Jeff February 23rd, 2009

Thanks for including Ugmonk!

It’s an honor to be up there with so many other great designs.

nszumowski February 23rd, 2009

just when I’m about to start on an e-commerce project, perfect!

David February 23rd, 2009

Much better list than the last one. Ecomm is much harder to do than regular sites and its always nice to see different directions.

thomas romer February 23rd, 2009

we customized X-Cart, which we later regretted due to the inability to update with new versions. we are re-tooling the back-end now to enhance customer requests.

as a design company we have worked with majento as well. seems simple, but can get fairly involved if you have specific needs. so i am told.

liam February 23rd, 2009

Beautiful stuff, really love every single one of these! Thanks

Miro February 23rd, 2009

Check http://www.zik.ca/. French only (for now), sorry

brock @ mma gear February 24th, 2009

These are great designs, its good to see that there are e commerce sites that focus on implementing a more creative design than the usual ones, very refreshing!

viewville jeremy February 24th, 2009

Always nice to see these types of collections for inspiration. And apparently the internet was built to sell t-shirts! (so many cool shirt stores). Need a photo art print? Let us know.

jzlosman February 25th, 2009

There are some great ones here, I especially like the tshirts on the clothes line. Another website that has taken the ugliness out of e-commerce – http://esperanzacuisine.com

Real University Degree February 26th, 2009

Great sites, I liked no.6 so much.

well done.

Mike February 27th, 2009

Great designs. Good inspiration

Dainis Graveris February 27th, 2009

Crate&Barrel website is definitely my favorite one because of it’s clean, subtle design.

thomas romer February 27th, 2009

The 3rd one is my favorite because its mine.

KooWii February 28th, 2009

This helps me to get some inspiration for my new e-commerce project. Finding a suitable web design is hard and a good one can help to attract visitors which means traffics a.k.a profits.

GregR February 28th, 2009

Great Websites, I have to agree, I really like the Crate and Barrel layout, very…Crate and Barrel

Make Stable Money Online March 1st, 2009

Gorgeous showcase I especially like the TOOBYDO design because of the big powerful image on the home page.

Craig March 3rd, 2009

It’s interesting to see some big name companies above mixed in with the smaller fish – all great designs which is refreshing for shopping cart solutions.

Scott March 5th, 2009

This post gave a lot of great sites for ideas and inspiration when designing my site. I will continue to reference this post to look at when working to improve my site’s design. Thanks!

bill parker March 5th, 2009

These are great but I wonder long term if it’s really a good idea to have a theme where 50% of the screen real estate is reserved for large images. Seems if this was a good idea we would see it on ebay, amazon, newegg, etc..

ice hockey equipment March 6th, 2009

I think the design of ecommerce site should be little bit lighter designed.

Joel Dondis March 25th, 2009

Vandelay Team,

Thank you for choosing Sucre! We are truly flattered. Our site changes with the seasons. We have just launched a few product videos and plan on adding one or two more a week until all product catagories are covered. The new Sucre site would never have been possible without Peter Rigney and his fabulous team at Annunciation Intereactive, http://www.annunciate.org

Ksenia March 26th, 2009

Thanks a lot. Your post gives a kind of inspiration and reminds that it’s hi time to go back to work and create something at last

johnmilton March 31st, 2009

Hi..
Nice list, and some of these would certainly be very inspirational and also would serve as a good source of reference.
Thanks..

Stuart Staples May 19th, 2009

Great collection. The general appearance of an e-com site is always (also) a function of the goods on display. A personal favourite of late is http://www.deconet.com which apart from being good looking has some adorable stuff for sale too…

visiblenet July 22nd, 2009

I loved the original list you came up with, but this one is even better! Really appreciate you sharing your taste in quality eCommerce design. So many of them are stuck in the late 90’s early 00’s and are in desperate need of a face lift. Look forward to more posts like this in the future.

joab ng August 21st, 2009

Ecommerce site should have simpe or lighter design. More emphasis should be on the good looking.

erkasoft web tasarim September 7th, 2009

thanks for inspiration.

chopshopstore September 7th, 2009

also use “givemeabreak” to get 15% off at http://www.chopshopstore.com site pictured at #3.

Cheap ecommerce website design September 9th, 2009

These ecommerce websites are a good inpirations as well as a good exapmles of how ecommerce websites should look like

aledesign.it October 28th, 2009

So nice this collection! Great post! thanks for inspiration.

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