We’ve just launched the online store for Skincare company Grown. This was a great site to work on as we love the products and the Philosophy behind the products. We built the site using Magento and even though the design is very minimal it was a challenge to get the site looking exactly as per the supplied designs from the Grown team. The site features some pretty tricky customisations including a map  of the world which shows you the postage rates of each country. A geo-location based pricing structure which works out which country you are visiting the site from and some very customised PDF Invoices. We implemented some coupon codes with different rates for different shopper groups and even varying discounts dependent on the products selected.

One of the problems with Magento is it is very resource hungry and can be quite slow at times so we have applied various caching and other tools to speed it up. We are taking what we learnt on this project and using it on some of our existing clients to supercharge their Magento sites also. Even though we love Magento we are always on the lookout for emerging technologies and are currently trying out OpenCart to see how it performs. It’s not quite as feature rich as Magento but is truly Open Source and would be suitable for many eCommerce applications that don’t require the sophistication of Magento.

We performed User Testing on the site which included giving the testers a scenario and a list of tasks to perform. We then monitored the way they used the site and monitored the problems they encountered and implemented the solutions to these problems.

Check out Grown’s New Website