eCommerce

Observations from the homework submissions

“nominated” good sites

1800petmeds.com

Netflix.com

Orbitz.com

Dell.com

Apple.com

Costco.com

… more good sites

Staples.com

Amazon.com

Ebags.com

Starbucks.com

Dunkindonuts.com

Google.com

Towerrecords.com

… good

Createandbarrel.com

Citibank.com

Bn.com (barnes & noble)

“nominated” bad sites

Columbiahouse.com

Your-wedding.com

Inkjett.com

Compu-lock.com

Newegg.com

… lots of restaurant sites !

… baaaaad sites

Verizon.com

Greatshades.com

Myblueribbon.com

Target.com

Design guidelines

Fast to load

Easy to navigate & search

Relevant (?) (!)

Quick transactions

Rapid fulfillment

Good customer support (pres’n, FAQ, 800)

… better than the alternatives ( … bear! )

Transformed by IT

Legal research & documents

Photography

Electronic voting

Travel and ticketing

Banking

Donut manufacturing & training (!) Krispy …

… more IT

Bookstores …. And publishing

Biology (!) – bioinformatics

Safety testing – modeling and simulation

Education (!!)

Stock trading & investing

Media – print, music, video, film

… more IT

Advertising (!)

Gaming – games of chance + massive m-p

Shipping – order fulfillment

War (!!!) – intelligence, guidance, strategy, armaments, supply line management!