With the ability to “mimic” human intelligence, artificial intelligence (AI) is easily one of humanity’s greatest achievements to date, and will probably hold a spot as one of the greatest in our history in years to come. Despite the fact that we’re still technically in the early stages of AI, that is, computers still can’t ...
Everything is mobile today, absolutely everything. You can shop, browse, stream, chat, and even search with your voice on mobile. In fact, we’ve been hearing that every year is ‘the year of mobile’ so often that the reality is more like “the decade of mobile.” A decade in which your customers have come to expect ...
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There are seemingly millions of different considerations when it comes to choosing the right eCommerce platform for your brand’s online store. How can I successfully drive conversion? Which platform is the most customisable? What about SEO? How much is it going to cost? And there’s a world of options – between Magento, Shopify, WooCommerce, Opencart, ...
Founded in 2010 by Patrick and John Collison, Stripe went head to head with web payment giant Paypal. Their niche was to offer an achingly simple e-commerce payment system that could be integrated into a website with little more than a few lines of code. Today, e-commerce is a $2 trillion global industry, and over ...
Magento has become something of a platform pacemaker. And the latest in a series of game-changing launches came a couple of weeks ago, in the form of Magento Commerce Starter Edition. The younger sibling to Magento Commerce Professional Edition, the Starter Edition rounds out the platform’s Cloud offering.
Content and commerce: the power couple of the moment. It’s difficult to go more than minutes without someone reminding you of the importance of strong, engaging online content in winning the respect of your customers. And, sure, they’re right: an inspired visitor is more likely to become a loyal shopper. But really there’s no guarantee ...
Why do we pay so much for a cup of coffee? The actual cost of grinding coffee beans is pennies, and the labour time isn’t consuming. Yet Costa, Starbucks and Caffe Nero are crammed with customers happy to pay nearly three pounds for a brew. Why? Howard Shultz, CEO, described Starbucks as ‘the third place’ ...
Though much of shopping is still taking place in bricks and mortar stores, consumers are spending a substantial amount of time exploring and researching online. Luxury brand eCommerce websites continue to be important point of interaction for luxury shoppers.
Today grid-based design is, as ever, ubiquitous in our society. With a bunch of CSS-based grid frameworks available (see here), it has become much more efficient for designers to build and design beautiful responsive site layout with greatly reduced development time.
The ‘suit revolution’ has quietly been disrupting the traditional bricks and mortar stores, particularly those who have inherently relied on a high-end image. As the young male shoppers are turning to eCommerce for a quick and efficient solution to shop, online stores for custom tailored suits seem to fit right into their needs.
