Psychology of E-Commerce: How to Sell Online

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How This Course Will Help Your Career

What You’ll Learn

  • How decisions are made, and which part of the brain is really the web designer’s customer
  • How to create an online environment in which people feel part of a larger group, where they are grateful for your service, and show that through purchasing your products and services
  • How to know where someone's attention will be focused on your site, and how to make use of even the shortest attention span to generate sales
  • What the psychology of choice is, and how you can harness it
  • How to use storytelling for content that focuses on the clients and builds their commitment
  • How to tap into the subconscious drivers that underlie many purchasing decisions
  • How a coherent narrative can make it easier for your customers to engage with you and stay engaged
  • How to keep your customers coming back in an ethical manner, thus generating repeat sales
  • How to design for sharing, the next big thing in online selling
“Customer engagement is the direct route to every important business objective. It’s the pathway to everything good that a business could want.”

— Customer Experience expert Micah Solomon in Forbes

Online competition is fiercer than ever—and if you want to create a website that outperforms industry benchmarks in a big way, it’s vital that you know how to utilize your design skills to keep users engaged. The more engaged users are, the more likely they are to turn into paying customers—people who will buy your products and services time and time again, remain loyal, and ultimately become ambassadors for your brand both on- and offline.

Executing e-commerce successfully isn't easy: 69% of users abandon their shopping carts before checking out, according to Baymard Institute, a UK-based web usability research organization. That’s quite scary; what about the good news? Well, Baymard also found that many of the problems with e-commerce are solvable with changes to design.

There are many factors in designing great e-commerce experiences. You must know how to capture someone’s attention and present your goods and services in the optimal way. If you want customers who are committed, you’ll have to tell engaging stories and know how to build a long-term relationship.

In order to do all that, you will need to acquire and apply knowledge in human psychology. If you understand how your customers think, you can design for their needs. This course is based on tried and tested psychological techniques that bring together content and design so as to deliver hands-on advice for how to improve your web design and increase your customer engagement.

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Is This Course Right for You?

This is a beginner-level course, suitable for anyone wanting to take an online business to the next level:

  • UX designers looking to design persuasive experiences to improve the conversion rate of e-commerce sites
  • Project managers interested in building online businesses that engage shoppers
  • Software engineers seeking to gain an understanding of psychology, sociability, and design
  • Entrepreneurs who want their online shops to take off and perform better than the competition
  • Marketers looking to improve the entire sales funnel by adopting a user-centric approach
  • Newcomers to design who are considering making a switch to UX or web design

Courses in the Interaction Design Foundation are designed to contain comprehensive, evidence-based content, while ensuring that the learning curve is never too steep. All participants will have the opportunity to share ideas, seek help with tests, and enjoy the social aspects afforded by our open and friendly forum.

Learn and Work with a Global Team of Designers

You’ll join a global community and work together to improve your skills and career opportunities. Connect with helpful peers and make friends with like-minded individuals as you push deeper into the exciting and booming industry of design.

Lessons in This Course

  • Each week, one lesson becomes available.
  • There's no time limit to finish a course. Lessons have no deadlines.
  • Estimated learning time: 35 hours 37 mins spread over 10 weeks .

Lesson 0: Welcome and Introduction

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 1 hour 43 mins.

Lesson 1: The Subconscious Mind – The Customer of Design

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 5 hours 29 mins.

Lesson 2: Introducing Social Validation

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 16 mins.

Lesson 3: Design to Grab Attention

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 41 mins.

Lesson 4: Choice is Not All That it Appears

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 4 hours 43 mins.

Lesson 5: It's all About Them, Gaining Commitment

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 35 mins.

Lesson 6: Build Similarity and Then Make them Afraid to Lose

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 26 mins.

Lesson 7: Learn to Tell a Story

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 9 mins.

Lesson 8: Integrity Matters, Long-term Relationship Building

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 13 mins.

Lesson 9: Sociability and Going Viral

To be scheduled. Estimated time to complete: 3 hours 21 mins.

Lesson 10: Course Certificate, Final Networking, and Course Wrap-up

To be scheduled.

Learning Paths

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How Others Have Benefited

Hsin-Jou Lin

Hsin-Jou Lin, United States

“My major is Psychology and I'm now working in e-commerce. I've learned about from college, but don't have a chance to apply on real world. This course provides a step-by-step lesson for me to apply Psychology to my work.”


Fernando Martinez Carreon

Fernando Martinez Carreon, Mexico

“Well, I've started with one of the courses and felt it was fair to write once again just to say you that you are a great team of human, cognitive and pedagogy centered professionals. I'm really glad that I've become a member and have all of these tons of information for self-paced learning, the content I read it's great so far!”


Natalie Verdon

Natalie Verdon, Australia

“How wonderful.......I am looking forward to all I can learn and share with the community. You have a brilliant site and wonderful offerings.”

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