Slides from the Luxus Worldwide Happy hour in Helsinki 10th of March 2016.
Recapping the history of Ecommerce from the last decades, and a having future outlook of possible trends we will see in the coming years.
3. Markus Jönsson - Who am I?
• Working for Luxus Helsingborg
• Digital Planner / UX Designer
• Hyper Island alumni
• Working with ecommerce design for a large Swedish retailer
4. So, where did it all start?
Let’s get our mindset right.
Get your mindset right:
Used to be on a dial-up modem
Today we all have super-computers in our pockets
Grown roughly 20% YOY for the last decade
Technology to connect a bank payment system via phone connection in order to make transactions
Jane Snowball, a 72-year-old British woman. In 1984 she used the Video Tex to buy margarine, eggs and Corn Flakes from her local grocer.
Tech startup called Net Market. On August 11, 1994, the startup saw the first secure online transaction when founder Dan Kohn saw his friend buy a Sting CD using a credit card.
Pizza hut 1997
Amazon. Late 1998.
Amazon. Late 1998.
2005 by Alex Tew - $1 dollar per pixel to fund uni education. Sold on ebay in 2006 for $38,100. Brining in a total of $1,037,100 to its owner.
Ling´s cars
Turned down Dragons den investment in 2007.
Now leases £3.5M cars and vans a month. Undercutting other leasers with up to 35%.
Utilised dragons den as a marketing approach, and a wacky website to get word-of-moth marketing going.
arngren.net
Norwegian buy&sell market.
Micro payments
Subscription services
Auto-ordering of everyday household things (Amazon Dash)
One-click-checkout is huge! Amazon lost patent. (Benefit your returning users, let them feel that you know them)
New authentication methods. Easier for people to complete purchases, still feeling secure and in-control
Drone deliveries. Spaceship (designed in Finland)
Crowd-sourced delivery methods will start to pop up more frequently - already in place for food delivery.
Users wish for more different options, not only snail mail.
Video content will account for 2/3 of global internet traffic by the end of 2016.
Machine generated content will be a hot topic in near-future.
SEO implications are hugely positive when this is done right. Together with right tagging and microdata digital brandning becomes real (better data already in search engine results)
Garner predicts that by 2020, customer will manage 85% of the communication with an enterprise without interacting with a human.
Wish lists: Consumers looking for wish list integration that takes their online list to the brick-and-mortar store
More seamless integrations that lower the boundary for interaction. Beacons, rfid-based technology for identification etc (Apple already tapped into this slightly with recommending relevant apps based on geo position
Better use of data
Segmentation & targeting to communicate interesting products
Smart after-sales & review reminders
Personalised recommendations means life-or-death for many retailers - will be even more important in the future.
Only seen the start
Affiliate programs will pop up - enabling better integration with recipe sites, IoT devices and smart subscription services
Amazon button (Amazon Dash)