‘Food Delivery & Takeout’ Mobile Web and App UX Audit
What are the top 40 UX improvements for your Food Delivery & Takeout mobile site and app? How does your UX performance compare to DoorDash, KFC, Burger King, McDonalds, Domino’s, Uber Eats?
Based on the findings from Baymard Institute’s 150,000+ hours of User Experience (UX) research, Baymard will conduct an Food Delivery & Takeout UX audit of your mobile site and app.
The in-depth Food Delivery & Takeout UX audit will be based on 400+ weighted UX parameters uncovered during our large-scale UX testing – and are those we observe to be most relevant for Food Delivery & Takeout mobile websites and native mobile apps. This will provide you with:
- a detailed 120+ page audit report outlining 40 prioritized and research-backed user experience improvements for your Food Delivery & Takeout mobile website and app,
- provide best practice implementation examples and inspiration from other Food Delivery & Takeout companies, for each of the 40 identified UX improvements to your mobile website and app,
- a detailed unbiased UX performance analysis across the 400+ UX parameters to document your current state and identify the best areas to improve,
- compare your mobile site’s and app's UX performance directy to the performance of other Food Delivery & Takeout sites: DoorDash, KFC, Burger King, McDonalds, Domino’s, Uber Eats, Just Eat, & Deliveroo.
Learn more about our Food Delivery & Takeout UX audit analysis, deliverables, and costs in the 5 sections below:
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What’s Included in a Food Delivery & Takeout UX Audit?
A full UX analysis and assessment of your mobile website and native mobile app UX, (including the homepage, search, restaurant lists, menu lists, menu item pages, food customization flows, cart, checkout flow, order pickup and delivery) conducted every year by lead researchers at Baymard Institute, utilizing our 150,000+ hours of large-scale UX research.
6 detailed UX scorecards with a total of 400+ UX performance scoring parameters, used for direct UX performance comparison against other Food Delivery & Takeout websites (DoorDash, KFC, Burger King, McDonalds, Domino’s, Uber Eats, Just Eat, & Deliveroo). In addition, you will also get a UX comparison to 251 leading US and European e-commerce sites, to benchmark how your site stacks up to general online user expectations.
The auditors will write a detailed 120+ page report with 40 suggestions for UX improvement. Each suggestion includes a description of the identified user experience issue along with a proposed solution and 2–4 best practice examples from other Food Delivery & Takeout mobile sites and apps, and occationally examples outside the Food Delivery & Takeout industry for cross-industry inspiration.
A 2-hour video conference where we go over the audit results with you and your team, to discuss the findings and suggestions for improvements.
12 follow-up calls with your UX auditor after delivering the UX audit findings. For feedback on any redesigns you create, a light review of prototypes, questions, etc.
A detailed Year-Over-Year UX performance comparison to past audits – documenting your UX progress, and showing how you stack up to the competition and to user’s increasing expectations, every year.
Your whole organization gets annual complimentary access to Baymard Premium with full access to Baymard’s 150,000+ hours of UX research findings, UX certification, etc. (normally $2600/year).
“The recommendations in our audit were awesome - well prioritized, actionable and helped us focus on what to optimize. This audit, along with the e-Commerce Reports & Benchmark Databases, are my go-to resources for thorough, insightful information. Thank you!”
UX Audit Focus
The audit will cover the following areas of your online user experience:
Homepage — The homepage structure, design, re-ordering of recent orders, carousels, personalization, and promotions.
Category Taxonomy — The overall e-commerce category structure and taxonomy, includes the common issue of “over-categorization”, information architecture, catalog breadth, category redundancy, overly deep or shallow categories, industry-specific naming, etc.
Main Navigation — The main e-commerce navigation design, mega drop-down menus, visual hierarchy, courtesy non-product navigation, etc.
Query Types — The level of compliance with 5 different overarching types of search queries that users perform, all vital for your search engine to support (Exact, Product Type, Feature, Thematic, Abbreviation). How data is actually searched.
Search Form & Logic — The design and behavior of the search field itself, query persistence, manual and automatic search scope selection, special characters, etc.
Autocomplete — How the autocomplete feature (“predictive search” "search typeahead") should be designed, the types of suggestions it should make, keyboard behavior support, etc.
Search Results — How to guide users toward better paths on the results page, including suggesting alternate queries, scopes, “No results” pages, misspellings, etc.
List Layout & Loading— The design and features of the overall layout of the restaurant & menu list, layouts, data consistency, loading schema for new items loaded into the restaurant or menu list, number of items displayed by default, etc.
List Items: Information and Thumbnails — The type and amount of restaurant and menu attributes to include in each list item, user ratings in list items, the type of thumbnails in each list item, what they depict, their size, hover-enabled thumbnails, etc.
Filtering & Sorting — The type, amount, and specificity of filters users need, incl. thematic filters, food-specific filters, user-defined filters, price filters, etc. The filtering logic, scope, filtering tooltips, filter names, filtering value’s styling, placement and layout. The default sort type, sort types available, diversity in sorting logic, etc.
Menu Item Page Layouts — “Collapsed Sections”, recently viewed items, cross-sell placement, etc.
Menu Item Page Content — Default food images, image zoom, descriptions, scaling images on mobile, etc.
Food Customization and the “Buy” Section — Add to order button, pricing placement and styling, layout of special offers and discounts, food size and type variations, food customization flow, customization price changes, indicating selected customizations, custom selector UIs, etc.
Cross-Sells & Cross-Navigation — Cross-sells design, placement, and logic, cross-navigation elements, etc.
Shopping Cart & “Added to Cart/Order” Behavior — Shopping cart design and features, as well as the page-response when users add food items to the order, etc.
Account Selection & Creation — Account selection designs and communication, guest checkout, “Delayed Account Creation”, password rules, etc.
Customer & Address Information — Privacy concerns, phone fields, address auto-detection techniques, etc.
Delivery & Pickup — display of local delivery options, display of local pickup options, date and time selector UI, order cutoff, delivery thresholds, delivery fees, naming of delivery and pickup options, display of costs, etc.
Payment Flow & Methods (includes Third-Party) — The payment methods interface, how to integrate and display third-party payment options, coupon codes, etc.
Credit Card Form — The credit card field design and its validation logic and formatting, along with the expiration date, security code, and cardholder name inputs, field sequence, card icons, and card type selection.
Order Review — Review step design, “Place Order” button placement, and necessary review data, along with its editing flow.
Order Confirmation & E-Mail (to the extent it’s possible to access this) — The information and actions needed on the order confirmation page, along with the order confirmation e-mail.
Checkout Page Design — Checkout process steps, “Enclosed Checkout” designs, order summary sidebars, active vs. passive cross-selling, etc.
Form Design & Features — How to design and position the primary button, minimizing number of form fields, multi-column layouts, tabbing flows, , back-button and enter-keystroke behavior. Field label position, tooltips, optimizing microcopy and descriptions. Intelligent form features, including inferred selections, pre-fills, auto-fills, and personalization of the checkout flow.
Validation Errors & Data Persistence — How to design and position error messages, how to word them, and persisting data in non-secure and secure form fields, along with inline validation.
Mobile Touch Keyboards & Interfaces —Spacing between hit areas, hit area sizing, mobile touch keyboards, keyboard autocorrect, etc.
Custom Food Delivery & Takeout Competitors
In addition to auditing your mobile site and mobile app UX and comparing it to DoorDash, KFC, Burger King, McDonalds, Domino’s, Uber Eats, Just Eat, & Deliveroo, we can also expand the project scope to include a custom competitive audit against any local or direct Food Delivery & Takeout competitor(s) you’d like. This is available in most countries and languages.
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What Are Audits For?
Most commonly, our UX audit services are used by:
- Sites that would like to benchmark their UX performance to see how they stack up against major competitors and “State of the Art” sites, to know where resources are best spent on further UX improvements.
- Sites that would like inspiration and verification of their new redesign. For example, before spending resources on the final production code — auditing prototype designs are cheaper than re-coding.
- Optimized sites that need a pair of external and unbiased eyes to identify the last tweaks and improvements.
- Sites that would like to track their UX performance year-over-year, to measure and document UX progress towards stakeholders and over time.
Return on Investment
Even the smallest improvement in conversion rate for any site with significant sales will lead to a notable return on investment. For example, an improvement from 3.1% to 3.6% in conversion rate for a site with $50,000,000 annual sales will yield $8,060,000 extra sales every year.
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How Will the Audit Be Delivered?
What Will It Cost?
An annual Food Delivery & Takeout UX audit (mobile web and mobile app) across all 6 audit focus areas costs $13,100 (USD) per year.
An annual ‘Food Delivery & Takeout UX audit’ includes:
A full UX review and analysis by Baymard’s team of UX researchers of both your mobile website and mobile app.
6 detailed UX performance scorecards with a total of 400+ review parameters, and with performance comparison against DoorDash, KFC, Burger King, McDonalds, Domino’s, Uber Eats, Just Eat, & Deliveroo, along with a general UX comparison to 251 leading e-commerce sites.
A 120+ page audit report with 40 prioritized suggestions for UX improvements. Each explain the identified UX issue, the suggested change, and show 2–4 best practice implementation examples from other Food Delivery & Takeout sites and leading e-commerce sites.
A 2-hour video conference with you and your team to discuss the audit results.
12 follow-up calls with your UX auditor. Useful for follow-up questions or feedback on your redesigns or prototypes.
- 12 months of complimentary access to a Baymard Premium ‘Specialty’ plan with full access to Baymard’s 150,000+ hours of UX research findings (normally $2600/year).
Reach out below to discuss your needs or request a UX audit of your Food Delivery & Takeout site or app. (PS client audits are strictly confidential and will not be included in Baymard’s public UX benchmark database).
Talk to UX auditor Laura about your goals and discuss Baymard’s UX research methodology.
Food Delivery & Takeout Audit Price
$13,100
per audit
Refund Policy: In the event that we’re unable to provide 40 suggestions for improvements we’ll still complete the audit and leave it up to you if you want a refund.
Lead time: A typical UX audit takes around 17-25 work days - depending on time of year, project scope and auditor availability.
Confidential: All client-specific audits and UX scorecards are strictly confidential; they are not included in Baymard’s public benchmark databases or shared with anyone else (NDA is possible).
Unbiased: As Baymard does not offer any kind of design or development services or sell e-commerce technology, the UX audit will always be a completely unbiased analysis of your site and app, and not an indirect “sales pitch” for other services. At Baymard our specialization is the UX audit.
What Our Clients Say About the UX Audit
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