Tuesday, 31 July 2018

How to Use Smart Defaults to Reduce Cognitive Load

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How to Use Smart Defaults to Reduce Cognitive Load

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As a designer, one of your goals is to create a design that makes your users' lives easier. That means that you need to reduce cognitive load, the amount of mental energy users need to expend to navigate your design. And one of the best ways to reduce cognitive load is to use smart defaults.

In this article, you will learn:

  • What cognitive load is and why smart defaults help reduce it
  • How to use defaults wisely to best help users
  • Examples of situations in which defaults are especially useful

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Thursday, 26 July 2018

Why Fonts Matter: How Fonts Help You Build a Better Shopping Experience

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Why Fonts Matter: How Fonts Help You Build a Better Shopping Experience

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When building stores for your clients, it's important to remember that users want to accomplish their tasks as efficiently as possible. Luckily, something as simple as fonts can have a huge impact on a site's usability.

In this article, you'll learn:

  • How your font choices impact usability
  • Examples of how font characteristics can change the look of a page
  • Five key aspects to consider to keep your client's site highly usable

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    Wednesday, 25 July 2018

    Announcing Pursuit: An International Conference Series to Help You Grow, Learn, and Connect

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    Announcing Pursuit: An International Conference Series to Help You Grow, Learn, and Connect

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    Introducing Shopify Pursuit—a new two-day international conference series for Shopify Partners!

    This fall, we're heading to five cities across four continents to meet with Shopify Partners and to talk about growing your business and collaborating with your community.

    With presentations, office hours, evening meetups, and masterclasses, Shopify Pursuit promises to be a high-impact learning experience for partners around the world. Click through to see where we're headed, and to buy your tickets today.

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    Tuesday, 24 July 2018

    Add Products Faster With Product CSVs

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    Add Products Faster With Product CSVs

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    Shopify is a powerful platform that makes it easy to quickly build beautiful online stores for your clients. One way to make that process even faster is to import products via CSV. To help you do just that, we've compiled a set of product CSVs that contain high quality images and product data, such as variants, that you can import into a Shopify store. These product CSVs provide product data for design and testing purposes, and can be used to build themes and stores on Shopify.

    In this article you will learn:

    • How to upload products via CSV file
    • How to preview products before uploading from a CSV file
    • How to automate product data importing with Developer Tools

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    Friday, 20 July 2018

    How to Use Shopify’s New font_picker Settings

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    How to Use Shopify's New font_picker Settings

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    Shopify recently announced a new partnership with Monotype, which has made hundreds of beautiful new fonts available for free to Shopify merchants in the online store editor. A key component of this new feature is the font_picker setting, which can be implemented into your clients' custom themes.

    In this article, you will learn:

    • How to implement the font picker into the settings.schema file
    • How to update your stylesheet with new Liquid font filters
    • Why you should test themes to ensure fonts load correctly

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    Thursday, 19 July 2018

    Prove Yourself: 4 Ways to Demonstrate Your Expertise

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    Prove Yourself: 4 Ways to Demonstrate Your Expertise

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    As an industry professional, you have expertise in your field. That expertise is important to clients—in fact, it can be the deciding factor in clients choosing your services. But how do you demonstrate that expertise to potential clients?

    In this article, you'll learn:

    • Four proven, actionable ways to demonstrate your expertise
    • How to continue building on your strengths
    • Why being able to prove yourself is key to growing your business

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    Wednesday, 18 July 2018

    Truth In Advertising: How to Differentiate Your Marketing Agency Through Radical Transparency

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    Truth In Advertising: How to Differentiate Your Marketing Agency Through Radical Transparency

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    It's more important than ever to build transparency into your business. Your clients want to know that their businesses are protected, and to build that trust, it means you have a responsibility to tell the truth.

    In this article, you'll learn:

    • Actionable strategies to keep your work radically transparent
    • How being transparent will help you build strong, sustainable client relationships
    • Why transparency is a great way to differentiate your business

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    Tuesday, 17 July 2018

    It’s been a while. Are you still interested?

    I have some great tips and tools, but first would like to hear from you.
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    Hello Anand,

    Namra here, Shopify Partner Manager - Asia. I've noticed that you haven't gained new referrals yet. Because your success is important to Shopify, I have pulled together some great tools and key tips to help you find clients and drive sales.

    But before I share these tools with you, I wanted to know if you're still interested in the Shopify Partner program.

    Namra Deka
    Partner Manager Asia
    Shopify Partners

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    10 Technical SEO Tips to Get the Most from an Ecommerce Website

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    10 Technical SEO Tips to Get the Most from an Ecommerce Website

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    When building sites for clients, you already know that you need to consider ways to optimize for SEO. But SEO for ecommerce is different from SEO for non-retail sites. What can you do to make sure your clients' stores are totally optimized?

    In this article, you'll learn:

    • Ten actionable SEO tips for ecommerce
    • Optimizing for SEO both in your own country and abroad
    • Technical rules to follow for best results

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