BESV's E-commerce Transformation: Accelerating Towards Success
BESV designs and manufactures high-quality electric bicycles and accessories with advanced technology, cutting-edge design, and a superior user experience.
We crafted BESV's creative direction, UX approach, and user flows for their e-commerce website, with a particular focus on customer onboarding for first-time users. Through this transformative effort, they can unlock promising potential and harness innovative ideas for future success online. By implementing effective onboarding strategies, BESV aims to provide a seamless and user-friendly experience to new customers, ensuring they quickly understand how to navigate and make the most of their online shopping journey.
UX Design / Strategy
BESV
E-commerce
Problem
BESV's website currently lacks a feature that allows customers to purchase their products online. The only way to purchase a product is by using the "Where to Buy" page, which provides a store locator with third-party distributors marked on a Google Map. This long and arduous process is likely to reduce conversion rates as customers have to navigate away from the BESV website.
Solution
To establish a cohesive brand identity, BESV should create its own e-commerce website. This approach ensures that the brand's unique aesthetic and messaging remains intact, as opposed to relying on third-party websites that may have their own branding. By having an exclusive online store, BESV can provide customers with a visually consistent, immersive, and engaging experience that aligns with its brand image. This not only strengthens brand recognition but also instills a sense of trust and loyalty among customers.
Creative Direction
Motivate
Promote deep stimulation through visual content and visual incentives.
Innovate
Manifest the philosophy on having the perfect balance in design and technological advances of BESV products.
Belong
Create opportunities of community engagement. Biking as a social sport of attracting people to encourage this feeling.
UX Approach
To engage users, we should emphasize these key areas.
User Preference
Acquire knowledge of user behavior and preferences to ensure content is constantly relevant.
Some of the ways to gather data based on a user’s interest and preference
Implicit Data
Context
Understanding the context such as device, location, keyword search or promotional campaign can help to offer products in a logical context.
Behavior
Browsing and purchase history, added items into the shopping cart or wishlist help determine content to be presented based on the user’s interests.
Explicit Data
Onboarding
Approaching users with an onboarding questions such as “bike finder” that relates to products they might be looking for.
Personalization
Present users with personalized content based on their preferences.
Some example components that can be personalized based on user preference.
• Hero Banner
• Curated Products
• Navigation
• Search Suggestions/Results
• Store Location
User Control
Site configuration provides users a sense of control and keep engagement on committing to the purchase journey.
Some configurable site features for the user:
• Compare products
• Have installment payment options
• Customized product options
• Filter products
Engage and delight
Delight the user with site interactions. Encourage them to engage with community content.
Review submissions or by referral programs for the user will drive engagement on the site. Community driven content such as events keep the social engagement running and grow the customer base organically.
Gain retention and loyalty
Encourage customers to repurchase by sending timely, personalized reminders through emails or mobile notifications using their purchase history data.
Sitemap / App Map
Home
Overview of everything BESV has to offer. Personalized content maybe possible with onboarding information from the user.
Products
Product landing pages highlighting the main product offering (eBikes) as well as its parts and accessories.
Try our eBikes
Test ride locations, bike events and in-home test ride services. This is also a part of the community facet of the brand experience.
Search
Find products in a way that suits any visiting user through keyword search queries.
Community
Belongingness aspect of the site for the user. Sparks motivation for constant engagement on the site by fostering a community of BESV eBike users.
Core Flows
Deliverables
UX Wireframes
We created low-fidelity wireframes to visualize the layout and navigation based on the proposed sitemap and core user flows.