The test results are in:
During our testing “Install App” banners were the direct and sole cause of several abandonments of some of the world’s largest e-commerce websites.
Read on for details…
1,841 instances of dark patterns on ecommerce sites, in the categories of sneaking, urgency, misdirection, social proof, scarcity, obstruction, and forced action. You can browse this overview, read the paper, or look at the raw data.
We conducted a large-scale study, analyzing ~53K product pages from ~11K shopping websites to characterize and quantify the prevalence of dark patterns.
A nice overview of the Payment Request API, which is getting more and more browser support.
A good side-by-side comparison of loading techniques, with some clear advice. But pay attention to this note:
While the debate over “Load more” versus infinite scrolling versus pagination has been debated for years, the product loading method shouldn’t be the first thing that most e-commerce vendors spend their development resources on.
Time is money …especially when it comes to performance on the web.
A Flash interface that allows you to interact with lingerie models when shopping for knickers. I point this out purely for reasons of interaction research, of course.
A very cute bit of e-commerce chicanery.