VISEO supports one of Singapore's biggest retailers in the creation of its new e-commerce website

The Shopify Dilemma

Our initial question: will Shopify do the job? The initial phase of our project involved a review of an existing Shopify store featuring a limited catalog. This store raised many pain-points for our client and made our team question the ability of Shopify to meet the complex needs of a major retailer. We engaged Shopify experts and challenged the platform with a list of necessary requirements. For example: Will Shopify allow us to synchronize store and online stock to maintain fulfilment status? For these types of concerns, our team worked with the client and experts to find easy-to-implement solutions that proved successful and assured us of Shopify’s capabilities to get the job done.

The Freedom in Design and Agility

Stylish Stas, Fitness Felicia and Sporty Sammy guided us as we imagined an ideal e-commerce platform for our end-users. These personae (archetypes to represent our target end-users) and other human-centered design methods, along with the flexibility provided by an agile approach, allowed us to define, ideate and test our solution live. We entered the project with the goal of an MVP (most viable product). This meant defining the most necessary features for our users and focusing our time and energy on these features only. Upon releasing our MVP to market, we immediately saw how users interacted with the platform and found ways to improve. We then made necessary adjustments and continued building a backlog for later releases with even more features.

SKU SKU SKU!!!

Designing an e-commerce platform for one of Singapore’s biggest retailers means providing the ability to feature a large diversity of products (also known as SKUs or stock keeping units). The brand team needed a series of guidelines and an appropriate back-end platform to allow them to quickly upload assets as seamlessly as possible. As deadlines approached, the rush to get quality assets online remained priority number one. With a mountain of products looming over the brand team, we engaged backup from our team in Cebu who willingly assisted in making assets ready for production. Although certain SKUs missed the cut for the first release, a well-defined and robust logic allowed the brand team to confidently continue the job and continue brining store products into cyberspace.

The feeling of being live

50% OFF! NEW IN! FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY! Welcome to the online shopping experience! EXPLORE! CLICK! BUY! Today our retailer understands one very important thing about e-shoppers: they all ride in a Lamborghini flying down the cyber-way at 402km/h. Grabbing their attention requires placing the brand in the right place, at the right time and with the right message. Seduce them with an image, a catch phrase, a discount; make them want to stop! And when they stop, make it simple, quick and easy to understand. Bringing the Orchard Road experience online is a difficult task, but thanks to a team of talented developers, designers and project managers, accompanied by the passion that drove our retailer to embark upon this journey with us, we now proudly boast one very seamless e-commerce experience. As our Agile mindset demands us, we continue to reiterate and redefine as new requirements surface, but the foundation on which we build remains extremely solid.