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Presenting products like this is an excellent way to appeal to people's browsing behaviour, and works especially well for things like clothing and shoes. For instance, Zappos <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/3253-zappos-introduces-visual-browsing-feature">recently introduced a visual tool</a> to display its shoe range, and allow users to zoom in and out and filter products by colour, while <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/2544-visual-book-browsing-with-zoomii">Zoomii does the same for books and DVDs</a>. According to <a href="http://techfortesco.blogspot.com/2009/05/try-our-prototype-beauty-room.html">Tesco's Nick Lansey</a>, it can do more to sell some types of products online: <blockquote> "Some aspects of our product range should be exciting but just aren't exciting thanks to our list-based system. Think about the emotional contexts of beauty products - brands such as L'Oreal, Pantene, Radox, Olay and others. These brands create products that involve the emotions: inspiring, relaxing, washing, bathing, rejuvenating, making us feel cleaner and look younger. Shoving them into a list like we do baked beans hardly does them justice!" </blockquote> Nick tells me it is a work in progress at the moment; logging in using your Tesco ID takes nearly a minute for one thing, while there is a limited range of products available. It has been created using Microsoft's Silverlight technology, so you will need to install this if you don't already have it. Also, while you can buy goods through the application at the moment, but you will be asked to login in again once you select the basket / checkout options. It has some good features though; the filtering options are good at narrowing your search, and the fact that you can instantly see the number of products after applying the filters also helps: <img alt="Beauty Room filtering options" height="138" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3547928177_23d54e3525_o.jpg" width="448" /> Product details are good too, and come up instantly once you click on an item, providing user ratings and cross-selling options as well as basic information on the creams and shower gels. <img alt="Tesco Beauty Room" height="214" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3547928503_36dbc8e26c_o.jpg" style="vertical-align: middle;" width="448" /> I like the idea of browsing through sites like this, not every user comes to a website with a clear idea of what they are looking for, and this allows them to easily and quickly search and see details for a number of different products before deciding. I suspect it would work well for other product ranges too, shoes and clothing for one. Browsing tools like this are also an excellent way of selling products in a more visually appealing way, and can help give retailer the edge over rivals by providing a more exciting user experience.

Presenting products like this is an excellent way to appeal to people's browsing behaviour, and works especially well for things like clothing and shoes. For instance, Zappos <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/3253-zappos-introduces-visual-browsing-feature">recently introduced a visual tool</a> to display its shoe range, and allow users to zoom in and out and filter products by colour, while <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/2544-visual-book-browsing-with-zoomii">Zoomii does the same for books and DVDs</a>.  According to <a href="http://techfortesco.blogspot.com/2009/05/try-our-prototype-beauty-room.html">Tesco's Nick Lansey</a>, it can do more to sell some types of products online: <blockquote> "Some aspects of our product range should be exciting but just aren't exciting thanks to our list-based system. Think about the emotional contexts of beauty products - brands such as L'Oreal, Pantene, Radox, Olay and others. These brands create products that involve the emotions: inspiring, relaxing, washing, bathing, rejuvenating, making us feel cleaner and look younger. Shoving them into a list like we do baked beans hardly does them justice!" </blockquote> Nick tells me it is a work in progress at the moment; logging in using your Tesco ID takes nearly a minute for one thing, while there is a limited range of products available. It has been created using Microsoft's Silverlight technology, so you will need to install this if you don't already have it. Also, while you can buy goods through the application at the moment, but you will be asked to login in again once you select the basket / checkout options. It has some good features though; the filtering options are good at narrowing your search, and the fact that you can instantly see the number of products after applying the filters also helps: <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3598/3547928177_23d54e3525_o.jpg" alt="Beauty Room filtering options" width="448" height="138" /> Product details are good too, and come up instantly once you click on an item, providing user ratings and cross-selling options as well as basic information on the creams and shower gels. <img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3548/3547928503_36dbc8e26c_o.jpg" alt="Tesco Beauty Room" width="448" height="214" /> I like the idea of browsing through sites like this, not every user comes to a website with a clear idea of what they are looking for, and this allows them to easily and quickly search and see details for a number of different products before deciding. I suspect it would work well for other product ranges too, shoes and clothing for one. Browsing tools like this are also an excellent way of selling products in a more visually appealing way, and can help give retailer the edge over rivals by providing a more exciting user experience.

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Retail giant Tesco is set to make a few changes to its website this year; it has already launched an improved wine site and the grocery service is due to be relaunched this summer. While the Tesco.com site is very functional, there <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/2270-10-things-tesco-can-do-better-online">are areas for improvement</a>, and one of the things the retailer is trialling is a visual browsing feature for its beauty products; <a href="http://www.techfortesco.com/beautyroom">Beauty Room</a>. <img alt="Tesco Beauty Room" height="230" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2462/3548738526_61c9313ca9_o.jpg" style="vertical-align: middle;" width="448" />

Retail giant Tesco is set to make a few changes to its website this year; it has already launched an improved wine site and the grocery service is due to be relaunched this summer.  While the Tesco.com site is very functional, there <a href="http://econsultancy.com/blog/2270-10-things-tesco-can-do-better-online">are areas for improvement</a>, and one of the things the retailer is trialling is a visual browsing feature for its beauty products; <a href="http://www.techfortesco.com/beautyroom">Beauty Room</a>. <img style="vertical-align: middle;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2462/3548738526_61c9313ca9_o.jpg" alt="Tesco Beauty Room" width="448" height="230" />

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Refer also to Econsultancy's <a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/user-experience-buyers-guide">User Experience Buyer's Guide</a> and <a href="http://econsultancy.com/reports/effective-web-design-best-practice-guide">Effective Web Design Guide</a> for more information about best practice in these areas.

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