25+ Inspirational E-Commerce Website Designs – Part Two
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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.
If you’re looking to build your own e-commerce website, we recommend Shopify.
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- 35 Excellent E-Commerce User Interface Designs
- 25 Creative E-Commerce Website Designs
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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.
Nice Post. Thanks for sharing and keep posting more new info.
Thanks again.
deckpeck is really nice
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!
They are good designs but some of them are not search friendly and may not perform well in search engines.
Nice list, some inspiration for my shop I will be opening soon! keep it up!
Awesome list! Very inspirational
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.
Nice websites, some of them are really good sources of inspiration.
And I agree with the first comment
Nice collection. Would be nice to know which stores are using a canned (programming) shopping cart or a custom cart.
very nice e-commerce sites thanks for list..
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.
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Thanks for including Ugmonk!
It’s an honor to be up there with so many other great designs.
just when I’m about to start on an e-commerce project, perfect!
Much better list than the last one. Ecomm is much harder to do than regular sites and its always nice to see different directions.
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.
Beautiful stuff, really love every single one of these! Thanks
Check http://www.zik.ca/. French only (for now), sorry
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!
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.
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
Great sites, I liked no.6 so much.
well done.
Great designs. Good inspiration
Crate&Barrel website is definitely my favorite one because of it’s clean, subtle design.
The 3rd one is my favorite because its mine.
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.
Great Websites, I have to agree, I really like the Crate and Barrel layout, very…Crate and Barrel
Gorgeous showcase I especially like the TOOBYDO design because of the big powerful image on the home page.
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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.
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!
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..
I think the design of ecommerce site should be little bit lighter designed.
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
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
Hi..
Nice list, and some of these would certainly be very inspirational and also would serve as a good source of reference.
Thanks..
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…
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.
Ecommerce site should have simpe or lighter design. More emphasis should be on the good looking.
thanks for inspiration.
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These ecommerce websites are a good inpirations as well as a good exapmles of how ecommerce websites should look like
So nice this collection! Great post! thanks for inspiration.
Thanks man your all design are very fine and helpful i realy appriciate you
All of these are beautiful – but some are perhaps a bit crowded. If I was a shopper I’d have so many options I’d not know what to do.
Ian
Love the clothes line
very nice, I liked “Life & Home” so much.
Some of these E-Commerce site designs are very nice indeed … I particularly like the design of Soup Studios. I’d agree with the comment above about knowing which shopping cart was being used for each site. This would be a good insight. However, perhaps even more important for myself would be to know what CMS or inventory system was being used. Then you’d have more criteria by which to judge the design of the transactional website.
Thanks for post. Nort Berlin is excellent design!
Great designs. Toobydo is a nice and clean style.
Thanks
Great list. Crate and Barrel has always been fantastic…highly usable, bold readable text, large crisp images, clean white background so you aren’t distracted from either the text or the products. So many eCommerce designs are so design-happy you forget what they are selling. Also, Talbots has always been great. The retail emails are fantastic as well. Makes me want to move back up to the South Shore area of Boston to work for them sometimes!
very nice I like so much
Nice list there particulary like Crate & Barrel, and La Senza : )
No way. Chop Shop is the best one. I am totally unbiased.
I’m Currently building a site now. Always love these collection.. Great inspiration! Thank You
I loved the collection.. I am developing an e-commerce site and this comes handy for my designing process.
Thanks for sharing.
Nice collection
Thanks for inspiration 
Ecommerce site should have simpe or lighter design. More emphasis should be on the good looking.
I love the simplicity of Deckpeck, great big buttons and awesome colors! I would have to say that these are defiantly inspirational ecommerce websites. Thanks for creating this list!
I like the bronson design on your site, they have changed it since and its not so appealing.. I geting ready to overhaul my shop so thanks for the pointers..