8 Examples of the Best B2B Website Design

For many B2B organizations, web design is the best sales tool at their disposal because B2B marketing presents unique challenges when it comes to building customer relationships, bringing a steady flow of prospects into your marketing funnel, and generating qualified sales leads. That’s why the best B2B websites are designed to inform, captivate, and persuade audiences to engage with brands.

While B2C brands typically expect sales transactions to be completed within one website visit, B2B companies rarely expect prospects to convert when they’re visiting the website for the first time. That’s because unlike most B2C transactions, sales cycles in B2B tend to be relatively long. In fact, the B2B customer journey often consists of numerous interactions and touchpoints across multiple media channels and mobile devices.

Designing B2B websites according to best practices is key to helping the site perform and deliver what your audience needs and expects. It’s also important for B2B companies because thoughtful web design improves audience engagement and SEO metrics, which leads to more organic search traffic that can potentially convert into qualified sales leads.

Design is key to offering the ideal user experience for website visitors. The better your website’s user experience is for all visitors, the more often your brand will leave positive, lasting impressions and earn new customers.

If you are seeking inspiration or guidance for great B2B web design, consider these eight examples of B2B websites that effectively deliver great web-based experiences for visitors:

• Blake Envelopes – Emphasize the Quality of Your Product

  

  The Blake Envelopes website uses vibrant colors and images to convey product quality

  On a list of the Most Exciting Products, “envelopes” probably doesn’t even rank. However, you couldn’t tell by visiting Blake Envelopes. Their website has a vibrant, cheery feel, and captures the audience’s attention by featuring a variety of their high quality products. The site’s imagery uses visually appealing colors and movement to make passive products feel more active and alive, which helps to keep users engaged and interested in the brand.

• Asana – Perfectly Placed CTAs

  

  Asana’s homepage Call to Action is followed by engaging animations and interactive elements as users scroll

  Asana does a great job directing their audience exactly where they want them to go. On their homepage, a giant call-to-action (CTA) waits in the “first fold” to convert their visitors into consumers. As users scroll, they see more CTAs positioned near animations of the product in action, including interactive design elements that prompt users to learn more and navigate to related pages.

• Acme – Functional Minimalism

  

  The Acme website’s homepage does a great job of using minimalist design that is also functional

  Less is more. There is no need for clutter and chaos. Acme is a great example of this theory, improving their user experience with a minimalistic approach (a rare choice in B2B web design) to reduce load time and increase readability. When there is less content on a page, each element has a way of drawing more attention. Acme’s homepage design is polished and simple, making small statements–like the centered and visibly prominent “Industrial Solutions Since 1975” tagline–more impactful and resonant with users.

  What’s equally impressive about Acme’s minimalist web design is how it becomes more robust and intuitive as the user interacts with the page and navigates the site. The homepage is divided by subtle vertical lines so that each section links to interior landing pages; moving a cursor across sections of the page animates and reconstructs the background, rendering new imagery to show users where they will land when they click that area of the screen.

• Zendesk – Customer Service

  

  Zendesk’s website design focuses on customers, much like their products and services do

  Zendesk has done an amazing job with their website by focusing the design on great customer support right from the jump. From the top fold of the homepage, site visitors can sign up for a free trial, watch a demonstration of the software, and click to chat with a live sales representative while getting the full experience at the tip of their fingers.

• Grammarly – Define Your Value Proposition

  

  Grammarly states its value proposition upfront and includes animations that demonstrate its usefulness

  What are you offering? The audience should be able to instantly identify the company’s purpose and how it will deliver. Rather than excessive attempts to drive buyer motivation, focus energy on addressing how your company will provide solutions, the way Grammarly does on their homepage and throughout their website.

  At the top of their website’s homepage, the headline gives enough detail that the company’s value proposition is clear, and the call-to-action button clearly tells the user what they can expect when they click.

  The homepage also includes helpful animations that demonstrate exactly how Grammarly’s product helps the end customer. This web design technique is effective because even if a site visitor does not read a single line of copy, watching the animations will still help them understand how the product provides value.

• Kao Collins InkTank – Quality Content

  

  Kao Collins’s InkTank blog uses vibrant colors and motion graphics to promote its quality B2B content

  Offering vibrant, positive content to users will only lift your brand in a positive direction. Pick a brand voice that aligns with your company’s mission statement and run with it. Keep readers informed while portraying your company as relatable and reliable.

  Kao Collins, a global ink engineering and manufacturing leader, recognizes the impact great content has when combined with great B2B web designs. The homepage of Kao Collins’s InkTank blog leads with captivating visuals and structures the links to blog content within an appealing user interface.

  Learn more about how we designed websites for Kao Collins and InkTank View Our B2B Portfolio

  Tips for Writing Great B2B Website Content

  A beautifully designed B2B website with poor content will fail to capitalize on many valuable business opportunities for your company. We recommend following these best practices when producing content for B2B sites:

  • Briefly explain products/services upfront.

    Visitors need you to get straight to the point. At the first sign of ambiguity, they will bounce from the page and move on to one of your competitors.

  • Promote the benefits of partnership.

    If they decide to partner with you, what will customers be gaining? Use case studies and previous successful partnerships to show, rather than tell. Results speaks louder than words.

  • Strategically place every pixel of content within your pages.

    It matters. Thoughtful placement of content is crucial to directing the focus of visitors to your call-to-action so that more of them convert. Positioning of content also establishes a hierarchy within your website, helping visitors prioritize the more important information.

   

• Adobe CXM – Design That Tells a Story

  

  Adobe’s CXM site effectively uses web design to lead visitors through a story about its product offerings

  Instead of directing users through complex navigations and category pages, B2B sites should choose a web design that takes them on a journey. This approach, as seen on Adobe’s CXM website, moves towards conversation marketing rather than content marketing. As users scroll down the homepage, they see text and animated graphics that explain how the company and its products help customers, including testimonials from industry experts.

  This website demonstrates that conversational marketing is about more than chatbots and live support; it’s also about using web design and content to reflect and understand what the user is seeking, then help the user navigate to the right page and provide the tailored information the user needs.

• Fullscreen – Captivating Videography

  

  Fullscreen used video effectively on its website to show off its videography skills

  Fullscreen’s website leveraged captivating videography to illuminate their content with a story of “who they are” as a company that produced video entertainment and content for brands and talent so they could share it on social media. This web design trend is becoming extremely popular on home pages because videos are often more effective at conveying “what the brand is” than excessive written content on “About” pages.

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