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2024
November
October
- Announcing the New Shopify .dev Community Forums
- 4 Strategies For Pitching and Solutioning Shopify POS
- 4 Ways to Use Shopify POS to Grow Your Partner Business
- How Helium Achieved 764% Revenue Growth Through Ads
- The Shopify Plus Certified App Program: Connecting Plus Merchants with Best-in-Class Apps
- All-in on GraphQL: the future of app development at Shopify
July
- How to set up pricing plans for your Shopify app (2024)
- Commerce Moves Fast—Shopify Verified Skills Help Your Team Keep Up
- How MAXBURST doubled their revenue in 3 years as a Shopify partner
- How Lazer Technologies grew to $5 million in revenue as a Shopify partner
- Riess Group increased deal sizes by 3-4x with Shopify POS
June
- Celebrating innovation with the Shopify Build Awards
- Improving the Online Store: New Style Settings & features for Theme Blocks — Now In Developer Preview
- Build the world’s best checkout into your app with Shopify’s Checkout Sheet Protocol
- Drive up to 2x more retargeting conversions with Shopify Audiences
- New perks and criteria for Built for Shopify
- Enhancing discovery and trust: Shopify theme updates
April
- Empowering Innovation: Shopify and Google Cloud Partner to Transform Customer Experience
- Powering Shopify’s High-Performance, PCI DSS v4 Compliant Checkout with Sandboxing
- What’s New for Developers at Shopify
- New ways to grow and earn as a partner—with Shopify Point of Sale
- A guide to Shopify POS launch and operations success
- Shopify Partner Earnings: Exploring Multiple Ways To Earn
- Partnering With Shopify to Unlock Growth and Profitability
- How to Build and Transfer a Shopify Development Store
March
- How P3 Media Unlocked Top Line Growth by Moving their Practice from Adobe Commerce to Shopify
- How Avex Grew 500% Over 3 Years by Building a Shopify Practice
- How Convert Digital Increased Revenue and Client Retention with Shopify
- Why Domaine Built a Shopify Exclusive Practice
- How Stikky leveraged Shopify’s Checkout Sheet Kit and improved conversion by 15%
- From Legacy Systems to Cutting-Edge Tech: The Role of Shopify, Braze, and WPP in Empowering the Retail Engagement Evolution
- The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Retail as an Agency Partner with Shopify
- How to Become a Successful Retail Agency with Shopify: Unveiling the Secrets of Finding Retail Clients
- New Headless Courses and Certifications by Shopify Academy
2023
September
- Build seamless app experiences with admin action extensions, now generally available
- How Form Factory Accelerated Solo Brands Headless Development Using Metaobjects
- Shopify named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Commerce
- Optimize your marketing efforts with full-funnel Google Analytics attribution
- Accelerate growth with new homepage ads on the Shopify App Store
- A Web Designer’s Guide to Project Schedules
- The Shopify Collaborator Account: What You Need to Know
February
- Search Improvements on the Shopify App Store
- Putting Partners First: Transforming the Shopify Partner Program in 2023
- 10 Ways to Customize Checkout with Checkout Extensibility
- Developer Highlights From our Winter '23 Edition
- Build Custom Commerce Experiences with Shopify Functions
- Built for Shopify: A New Way to Shine
- Customize Shopify Checkout in New Ways With Checkout UI Extensions
- Intro to Building Shopify Apps for B2B Merchants
- Speeding up Shopify Storefronts in 2023
2022
June
- Shopify Functions Unlocks Backend Logic to Help Meet Any Business Need
- Checkout Extensibility Opens New Ways to Customize Checkouts on Shopify
- New Requirements for Shopify Apps that Use Customer Personal Data
- From Bookmarks to a Marketplace: Aveste Built a Custom Marketplace Serving Both Customers and Small Brands
- How to build a Shopify POS Pro demo store
- 5 Practical Ways to Help Your Clients Deal With Supply Chain Issues
- 4 Key Ways to Differentiate Your Clients’ Ecommerce Stores From the Competition
May
- 9 Best CRM Software For Designers in 2022
- 7 Ways to Create an Amazing Customer Experience for Your Clients’ Ecommerce Stores
- Reimagining Shopify Unite
- 5 Ways Shopify Flow Can Help Your Clients Grow
- Top 10 Color Palette Generators for Website Colors
- How to Get Web Design Clients Fast
- How to Drive Sales and Customer Engagement with Social Commerce
- Tapping the Huge Market for Mobile-Optimized Apps
April
- Learn How Shopify POS Apps Help Brick and Mortar Merchants Succeed
- Client Collaboration: 8 Tips to Deliver Successful Projects
- Introducing new app billing capabilities: discounts, trial extensions, pro-rating and more
- For Marsello Finding Success Came Through Gathering Feedback
- How Verbal+Visual helped an international home decor brand get a 163% revenue boost
- The Shopify 2021 App Challenge Was The Perfect Opportunity For Success for eVouch
- Your guide to the Fulfillment Orders API migration
- Shopify API Release: April 2022
- Shopify Development Stores: How to Generate Recurring Revenue from Merchant Referrals
March
- Developing Customer Centric Solutions: How Yoast scoped, built and launched their Shopify App
- How to find your next brick and mortar client
- How Shopify Partner Endear Empowers Omnichannel Sales with Shopify and Shopify POS
- Ensuring trust and quality in the Shopify App Store
- How to grow your business by becoming an omnichannel expert
- SEO and Web Design: How to Build a Website That Ranks (2022)
- 8 Development Trends You Need to Know to Successfully Build for Shopify in 2022
- Scoping is broken. Here’s how one agency fixed it
- 3 Essential Content Marketing Trends To Watch In 2022
- How to work with Metafields when building Shopify themes
February
- Building Superpowered Merchants One Migration at a Time: How ICEE Social Found Success with Shopify
- Building Secure Shopify Apps
- How we’re helping developers help merchants in 2022
- Raise Prices at Your Agency with this Step-by-Step Approach
- API Deprecation at Shopify: 2022-04 Edition
- Building a Shopify App That Makes a Positive Difference in the World (And Makes a Profit)
- 13 Best Time Tracking Apps for Designers, Agencies, and Developers
- How to Level Up Your App with Theme App Extensions
January
- 10 Ecommerce Trends That Will Define Online Shopping in 2022
- Top Tips for Building Themes That Are Fully Featured, Like Customizing Shopify’s Best Free Themes
- How We’re Improving Discoverability On The Shopify App Store
- Shopify API Release: January 2022
- How to Test your Theme Before Submitting to the Shopify Theme Store
2021
November
- API Deprecation at Shopify: 2022-01 Edition
- How to Customize Content by Country with Shopify
- How to Use an Empathy Map in the Design Process
- Introducing New Payout Methods for Shopify Partners
- How to Learn More About Your Users with a Contextual Inquiry
- 10 Ways to Create Delightful and User-Friendly Web Animation
- Build with Hydrogen: Developer Preview Now Available
- Shopify Storefront API: Updates to Power Custom Storefronts
October
- 10 Tips to Help Your Clients Handle Surging Customer Service Demand
- 10 Ways to Establish Trust on Ecommerce Sites and Apps
- How to Build an Effective and Friendly App Support Process
- 12 Essential Tips to Get Your Site and App Ready for Black Friday Cyber Monday
- How to Work With Shopify Theme Blocks
- Commerce+ 2021: A Recap of What’s Next in Commerce
- Build for the 20 Percent: How Cleverific Evolved to Meet Merchant Needs
September
- Shopify API Release October 2021
- What is a Canonical URL? Best Practice Guide 2022
- Customer Empathy in Overdrive: Rewind’s 3 Principles for a Successful App Business
- App Performance: From Data Outage to Four Nines Uptime
- Shopify App Challenge Past Participants: Where Are They Now?
- How to Write a Product Roadmap That Works
- Feature Creep: What Causes It and How to Avoid It
- API Deprecation at Shopify: 2021-10 Edition
August
- How to Market an App: 11 Expert Tips
- Shopify Fulfillment Orders API: A Better Fulfillment Experience
- 5 Ways to Overcome Choice Paralysis and Improve Conversion
- An Introduction to Information Architecture
- How to Brand Your Shopify App to Earn More in the App Store
- 5 Psychological Concepts Web Designers Should Use to Maximize Conversions
- 10 Myths About Prototyping, Busted
- How to Get Reviews for Your Shopify Apps
- User Research Methods: 13 Expert Tips to Master the Process
- Tips for an Efficient Shopify Theme Review Process
- How to Meet the New Accessibility Requirements of the Shopify Theme Store
- How to Create Your First Shopify Theme Section
- 5 Steps to Design Apps with Keyboard Accessibility in Mind
July
- Lean UX: A Guide for Remote Teams
- 8 Usability Metrics Tech Teams Can Use To Analyze User Behaviour
- How to Make App Blocks Responsive in Online Store 2.0
- Task Modeling User Needs for Ecommerce Design
- Social Proof: 6 Ways You Can Leverage Customer Feedback
- UX Writing: 10 Tips for Crafting Effective Content
- Announcing the Shopify App Challenge 2021
- What it Takes to Build for Success on the Shopify Theme Store
- How to Increase Active Users For App Retention
- Storefront API Learning Kit
- How Safe As Milk Grew a Successful Theme Partner Business
- Shopify API Release: July 2021
June
- All of the Announcements From Shopify Unite 2021
- Introducing Online Store 2.0: What it Means For Developers
- Post-Purchase Checkout Extensions: Now Available for Beta Access
- Skeuomorphism in Digital Product Design
- Pseudo-Localization: What It Is and Why It Matters
- How to Build Powerful In-App Surveys: Put the User First
- How To Add Your App to the Shopify App Store
- Introducing New Tools for App Billing Management in Your Partner Dashboard
- 6 Shopify App Reviewer Insights for a Faster App Review
- Announcing Shopify Unite 2021: Coding Commerce, Together
- 5 Product Lessons I Learned Failing To Build My App
- Effective App Onboarding: How to Convert Free Trial Users to Paying Customers
- How to Upload Files with the Shopify GraphQL API and React
- Your Shopify App Isn’t Getting Any Installs. Now What?
May
- Microcopy: Why Tiny Words Matter
- SidePanda: From Indie Makers to SaaS Business Owners
- API Deprecation at Shopify: 2021-07 Edition
- Creating Accessible React Native Apps
- Beyond the Build: What We Learned From Top SaaS Founders
- Using Shopify App Bridge to Build Faster, More Functional Apps
- App Performance: How the Wiser Team is Keeping Stores Fast
- Beyond the Build: Bold Commerce’s Fast Failures to Success
- Top App Customer Service: 4 Techniques To Use as Soon as Your App Is Installed
- How to Optimize API Rate Limits
- Beyond the Build: How ShipperHQ Builds Differently
- How to Reply to Reviews in the Shopify App Store
April
- Implementing API Rate Limits in Your App
- Beyond the Build: Yotpo’s “Think Small to Scale Big” Strategy
- Microinteractions: Tiny Design Decisions, Big User Impact
- How to Design a Great App Icon: What You Need to Know
- Beyond the Build: Privy’s Repeatable Path to $4 Billion in Sales
- Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Shopify Commerce Awards
- Beyond the Build: How Shippo Embraced the Power of SMBs
- Shopify App Store Staff Picks: Everything You Need to Know
- Shopify API Release: April 2021
- Mobile Accessibility: How to Build Apps that Work for All Users
- Beyond the Build: How Klaviyo Built Their Business
- 9 Pro Tips to Create a Stellar App Customer Experience
March
- Learn About Shopify App Development at React Summit 2021
- How to Conduct a User Interview That Actually Uncovers Valuable Insights
- Leveraging the Partner API: Useful Business Tools You Can Build
- Ads on the Shopify App Store: Determining your Return on Ad Spend
- 6 Phases of the App Development Process: From Idea to Post-Launch
- User Testing Your Shopify App: Public App Use Cases You Should Test
- How to Build a Shopify App as a Front End Developer
- 8 Growth Metrics Every App Developer Should Track
- Building Shopify Apps: 9 App Developers Share Their Experiences
- Everything You Need to Know About Development Stores
- Persistence Matters: 6 Lessons From My First 6 Months on the Shopify App Store
- 5 Community-Built API Tools Developers Should Check Out
- 6 Principles of Effective Interaction Design
February
- How to Build a Shopify App: The Complete Guide
- How to Launch a Self-Serve Shopify App: 5 Things You Should Know Before Starting
- API Deprecation at Shopify: 2021-04 Edition
- App UX Design In 2021: What You Need to Consider
- Tips for Creating Effective Technical Documentation for Your Shopify App
- Why Brick and Mortar Merchants Choose Shopify POS
- How and Why to Integrate No-Code Automation into Your Shopify App
- The Top Trends in the Shopify App Store in 2020 (And What You Can Learn From Them)
- API Rate Limits and Working with GraphQL
- An Introduction to Rate Limits
- How to Use Future Scenario Planning in App Development
- Research 101: How to Conduct Market Research for Your App
January
- Shopify Commerce Awards Past Winners: Where Are They Now?
- 9 App Development Business Trends for 2021 Predicted by Shopify Staff
- How to Work with Shopify’s query Argument in GraphQL
- 10 App Development Trends to Track in 2021
- How to Work with GraphQL Pagination
- Shopify API Release: January 2021
- How to Use GraphQL Fragments
- 10 Usability Heuristics and How to Apply Them to App Design
- 7 Insights From the Shopify App Review Team to Set Your App Up for Success
- 11 Ecommerce Trends You Need to Turn Your Attention to in 2022
- 7 Web Design and Development Awards You Should Apply For
- Introducing Beyond the Build: A New Founder Interview Series from Shopify
2020
December
- The 15 Best App Development Books of 2020
- How to Use GraphQL Aliases
- Announcing the 2020 Shopify Commerce Awards: Celebrating the Best in the Business
- Profitable Pivots: How Octane AI Shipped Innovative Products in Uncertain Times
- How to Use GraphQL Operation Names and Variables
- Important Product Updates for Shopify Partners and Developers
- Tips for Using Snippets in Your Shopify Theme Work
- Using Animation to Improve the Mobile App User Experience
- API Deprecation at Shopify: 2021-01 Edition
November
- What is Impostor Syndrome? 6 Ways for Designers and Developers to Overcome it
- Getting the Most Out of Chrome Developer Tools: 4 Modern Features You Need to Know
- Typography in UI Design
- Getting Started with GraphQL
- How to Do an In-Depth Liquid Render Analysis with Shopify Theme Inspector
- How the Developer of Shopify App Mechanic is Scaling with EventBridge
- The 10 Most Useful Browser Dev Tools for Front End Developers
- Driving Revenue for Your Clients Through Paid Social Funnels
- How to Personalize Shopify Themes with the customer Object
- Tips for Offering Product Unboxing Consultation Services to Your Clients
- Deprecating Sass for Shopify Themes
October
- How to Improve Your Client's Loyalty Program with Gamification
- What's New in HTML: 6 Native Elements You Can Use Today
- Agile Design: An Introduction
- Using Placeholder Images for Products with the placeholder_svg_tag Filter
- Working with Product Variants When Building a Shopify Theme
- From a Leap of Faith to Building New Futures: The Chatdesk Vision of Creating New Jobs
- Shopify’s Subscription APIs: Build Apps That Integrate with Shopify Checkout (2023)
- How to Use Google Ads to Drive Traffic to Your Clients' Sites
- How to Improve Custom Search in Your Clients' Storefronts
- Shopify API Release: October 2020
September
- How to Make Your Embedded Apps Load Quickly and Reliably
- How App Challenge Winner Tilo Mitra is Building for Success on the Shopify App Store
- Shopify Webhooks: How to Prep Your App This Black Friday/Cyber Monday
- How We Improved Theme Development Tooling Using Checksums
- The 10 Best Markdown Editors of 2020
- 5 Key Strategies to Improve Your App Support
- API Deprecation at Shopify: 2020-10 Edition
- Human-Centered Design: An Introduction, Practices, and Principles
- How to Create a Customizable Logo Bar Section
- 12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Remote User Research During and Beyond COVID-19
August
- Why You Should Build Apps That Address Merchant Pain Points
- How to Customize Shopify Email Notifications for Clients
- The Shopify App CLI Tool: Build Apps Faster
- The 20 Best Brackets Extensions for Front End Developers
- How to Build for Modern Browsers (With Legacy Browser Support)
- The Complete Guide to Web Design Project Management for Developers, Designers, and Marketers
- How to Work with Influencer-Generated Content to Offer Product Photography as a Service to Your Clients
- How to Use a Mind Map in Product Design
July
- How to Use a Kanban Board with Product Design Teams
- Developing Your First Shopify App: 4 Mistakes to Avoid
- What is a Design Sprint and Should You be Running One?
- How the Routes and Page_Image Liquid Objects Can Help You Build More Robust Themes
- Redesigning the Design Process: How to Work More Efficiently in 2020
- 5 Free Online Learning Resources for Designers and Developers
- What is a Design Brief and How to Write One
- Card Sorting: Learn More About Your Users and Create Better Products
- Email Deliverability: 5 Ways to Build a Strong Sender Reputation
- How to Choose the Right Pricing Model for Your App
- Shopify API Release: July 2020
- Faster Retrieval of Shopify Metafields with GraphQL
June
- Magento to Shopify: How Bluegg Increased a Client's Conversion by 40%
- The 20 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Front End Developers
- How to Use Product Media on Your Custom Shopify Themes
- 9 Steps to Establish Strong Design Principles for Your Team
- The Age of Nanodesign: How Mobile Commerce is Transforming UX and CX Forever
- How to Build AI Chatbots for Your Clients
- Announcing the Shopify App Challenge Honorable Mentions
May
- Build Forms on Shopify: How to Use Liquid to Build Robust Forms for Shopify Themes
- How to Optimize Your Clients’ Themes to Sell Digital Products
- Internationalization: Practical Tips to Build for a Global Audience
- Everything We Announced at Shopify Reunite 2020
- Announcing the Winners of the Shopify App Challenge: Commerce and COVID-19
- Landing Page Optimization: 10 Tips for Increasing Conversions
- How to Optimize Your Client's Ecommerce Store in Response to COVID-19
- The Essential List of Resources for Shopify App Development
- Announcing the All-New Shopify POS: A Better Retail Solution for Omnichannel Merchants
April
- How to Build and Launch an Impactful Online Workshop
- The Business Cash Flow Guide for Agencies and Freelancers
- The 10 Best Product Design Books
- Scoop Our Strategies: Shopify’s Remote Work Systems
- Crisis Communication: How to Talk to Clients During COVID-19
- 30 Developer Resources to Diversify Your Skill Set
- Introducing the Shopify App Challenge: Commerce and COVID-19
- Tips on How to Transition Your Brick and Mortar Clients Online
- Handshakes to Headsets: A Guide to Running Virtual Events
- 3 Keys to Effective Remote Management for UX Designers
- Shopify API Release: April 2020
March
- How Shopify Partners are Responding to COVID-19
- [Updated] API Deprecations and Versions at Shopify: What You Need to Know
- How to Work Remotely: 4 Tips to Help Your Team Succeed
- How to Build Strong Relationships with Clients in Another Time Zone
- 5 Simple Google Analytics Reports for Your Clients [Templates]
- A CSS Grid Framework for Shopify Collection Pages
- How to Combat Image Cropping on Shopify Slideshow Sections
February
- To Our Partners: An Important Update on Shopify Unite 2020
- How to Use PWA and AMP for User Centered Design
- How to Use Your Competitive Landscape to Grow Your Agency
- 8 Actionable Tips for Running an Agency and Getting More Business
- A Beginner's Guide to Sass with Shopify — Part 2: Making Stylesheets Smarter with Sass Mixins and Functions
- 4 Easy Ways to Deploy Your Website or App
- How to Create an Efficient Product Strategy
- 3 Strategies for Collecting User Feedback Onsite
- Ads on the Shopify App Store: A New Channel for App Growth
- How to Add a Social Media Marketing Icon to Your Theme
- A Beginner's Guide to Sass with Shopify — Part 1: Getting Started With Sass
- Intro to CSS: A Beginner’s Guide to Cascading Style Sheets
- How to Debug Liquid Render Performance with Shopify Theme Inspector for Chrome
January
- An Overview of Liquid: Shopify's Templating Language
- How to Build Point of Sale Apps Using Shopify App Bridge
- How to Get More App Downloads in the Shopify App Store
- How to Refactor a Shopify Site for Javascript Performance
- Announcing the Shopify Unite Fund and Our Call for Speakers
- Color Psychology: How Color Influences Decisions
- Web Performance: 11 Must-Read Tips to Give Your Site a Speed Boost
- Email Marketing Best Practices for 2020
- Shopify API Release: January 2020
- Announcing Shopify Pursuit 2020: Turning Ideas Into Action
- 13 Web Design Trends to Watch in 2020
2019
November
- 4 Project Management Tips Shopify Partners Learned During BFCM
- Data Visualization: Interpreting Uncertainty in Product Design
- How to Use Eye Tracking in Usability Tests
- Content Strategy: The Principles we Followed to Build the New Shopify App CLI
- 5 Ways to Use Email Segmentation to Target Clients and Grow Your Business
- How to Build and Maintain a Visual Language
- Using JQuery Zoom and JavaScript Zoom for Product Images on Shopify
- How to Create a Customizable Announcement Bar Section in Shopify
October
- Shopify’s Global Economic Impact Report: How Shopify Partners are Changing Commerce
- Mobile-First Design: Putting the User First
- 10 Halloween Graphics to Make Your Client’s Website Spooktacular
- Shopify Marketing: How and Why You Should Integrate Your App
- Shopify API Release: October 2019
- Website Security: 13 Ways to Improve Front End Security and Not Get Hacked
- Grow Baby, Grow: Digital Marketing Tips to Launch Your Client's New Brand
- 5 Ways to Use Email Marketing to Help Your Subscription-Based Clients
- How to Use Shopify Theme Settings to Create Mobile-Specific Logos
- Order Editing: What This Means for Shopify App Developers
- 15 Tools to Customize Your Terminal and Command Line
September
- 3 Ways Shopify Partners Can Leverage Video and 3D to Help Merchants Boost Conversion
- 5 Common Digital Content Problems and How to Avoid Them
- Creating Memorable User Experiences With Website Layouts
- How to Know if Your Client is Ready to Sell Internationally
- Content Generation: 2 Secret Weapons to Generate Content for Omnichannel Marketing
- Freelancing 101: How to Market a Small Business
- Back to School Gifts for Programmers and Developers
- Off Page SEO: 3 Quick Fixes and 3 Long Term Strategies
- The 8 Best Free Shopify Resources and Tools for Front-End Developers
- What to Consider When Planning a Website Redesign
- Creating User Centered Flows in Ecommerce Design
August
- Website Personalization: Improving Conversion with Personalized Shopping Experiences
- How to Direct, Control, and Hold Focus Through Design
- How to Improve Conversions with Dynamic Checkout Buttons
- 10 Tips to Take a Vacation as a Business Owner
- 10 Beautiful Ecommerce Website Color Schemes
- 22 Basic UX Laws That Every Designer Should Know
- Global Expansion Strategy: Why Partnerships are Key to Winning New Business
- How to Use Relative Pagination In Your Application
- 20 Ways to Set and Manage Client Expectations During Onboarding
- Email Personalization: Using Analytics to Send Relevant, High Converting Emails
- What is Affiliate Marketing? The Myth vs. Reality
- Progressive Disclosure: Simplifying the Complexity
- 7 Essential Digital Project Management Best Practices
July
- How to Build a Customizable Related Products Section
- 5 Best Essential Freelancer Tools
- Shopify’s Billing API in GraphQL: What App Developers Need to Know
- How to Build Multilingual Shopify Apps
- Understanding Progressive JPEG and WebP Formats
- Mobile Design Trends in 2019
- A Modern Approach to CSS Pt. 2: Building Resources
- Use the Kit Skills App Extension to Engage Your Users Conversationally
- How to Write Excellent Commerce Content for Your Clients
- 10 Things we Learned Building Our First Shopify App
- A Modern Approach to CSS Pt. 1: Tools and Organization
- The 9 Best Codepens for Summer
- An Insider's Look at the Technology That Powers Shopify
- Selling in Multiple Currencies with Shopify Payments: What this Means for App Developers
June
- How Christoph Filgertshofer Became Germany's 18-Year-Old Affiliate Marketing Wunderkind
- [Video] The Keynotes from Shopify Unite 2019
- The Value of UX Storyboarding for Product Design
- Every API We Announced at Shopify Unite 2019
- Here’s Everything We Announced at Shopify Unite 2019
- Delivering Accessible, Usable, and High-Performance Transactional Emails for Clients
- Designing for Voice Search
- GraphQL vs REST: How One Shopify Partner Increased Performance and Reliability
- How to Boost Your Business’s Revenue with Ongoing Service Retainers
- Embrace Localization and Multilingual Content with HTML and CSS
- Determination and Devotion: How Two Entrepreneurs Changed the Ecommerce Industry in Mexico
May
- How to Use Liquid to Create Custom Landing Page Templates
- 12 Ecommerce UI Patterns And Where To Find Them
- Live Reloading Shopify Themes: Sass Compilation with Theme Kit and Prepros
- 5 Reasons Why You Cannot Use a Contract You Found Online for Your Business
- Universal Design: 11 Practical Tips to Make Your Sites and Apps More Accessible
- How to Fire a Client [With Script]
- 3 Project Management Strategies to Prevent Scope Creep
- 6 Tools to Create Beautifully Designed Mood Boards
- How to Hire Employees: The Essential List of Resources for Agency Owners
- 20 Memorable Web Design Portfolio Examples to Inspire Your Own Website
- Understanding Date Formats in Liquid and Shopify
April
- Developer Digest: April 25, 2019
- How to Authenticate Your Embedded App in the Shopify Admin
- 15 Funny Lorem Ipsum Generators to Shake Up Your Design Mockups
- Minimalist Web Design: How To Achieve More With Less
- Project Budget Management: How to Keep Your Clients Happy
- [Free Webinar] Migrating Your Clients From WooCommerce to Shopify: Why and How to Make the Move
- Introducing API Versioning at Shopify
- Announcing Shopify Unite 2019
- How to do a Competitive Analysis That Drives Results for Your Clients
- International Market Research: What You Need to Know Before Working with Clients Across Borders
March
- Tips for Creating Multilingual Digital Products
- How to Display Price Ranges on Shopify Collection Pages
- 11 Design Interview Questions and How to Master Them
- Designing For Augmented Reality
- Add Products Faster With Product CSVs
- Dark Patterns: 12 Tricks You Should Never Use in Your Products
- Announcing Shopify Liquid Code Examples for Partners
- Developer Digest: March 13, 2019
- Getting the Most Out of Your Team with One-on-One Meetings
- Deconstructing the Monolith: Designing Software that Maximizes Developer Productivity
- How Lazy Loading can Optimize Your Shopify Theme Images
- Building Partnerships: Shopify Partners Share How They're Creating Long-term Value
- How to use Liquid to Customize Shopify Theme Blog Templates
February
- [Video Series] Project Management Challenges: Announcing the Latest Partner Academy Course
- Give Yourself Design Superpowers with Digital Illustrations
- What’s New at Shopify: February 22, 2019
- How to Customize the img Element in Shopify Themes
- Gamification in Business: How to Apply Gaming Principles to Digital Product Design
- How To Create a Successful Educational YouTube Channel for Your Business
- How to Bring Disruptive Thinking to Your Agency’s Clients
- Data-Rich: Use Holiday Data to Enhance Your Client's Conversion Strategy
- Follow This 3-Step Process to Hire the Web Developer of Your Dreams
- 3 Simple Steps for Setting Up a Local Shopify Theme Development Environment
- Getting Paid: An Overview of Shopify App Billing Cycles
- [Free Course] 10x Your Shopify Theme Development Skills with These Free Courses
- Developer Digest: February 1, 2019
January
- Enhancing the On-Screen Reading Experience With Variable Fonts
- 7 Inspiring Stores Built by Shopify Partners to Get You Through the Winter
- 3 Trends From 2018's Best Shopify Apps That Will Help You Build Better Products
- Creating an Accessible Pagination with Liquid
- Introducing Shopify Community: An Enhanced Forums Experience
- 5 Ways to Stay Informed as a Shopify App Developer
- How To Use Translation Keys To Create Internationalized Themes
- The Future of Commerce is Global: Why and How to Take Your Business International with Shopify
- How to Make SEO and Paid Social Work Together to Drive Traffic and Revenue
- A Step-by-Step Guide on How we Optimized our App Listing in the Shopify App Store
- Introducing the Shopify Shipping Toolkit: A Sales Resource for Shopify Partners
- 12 New Year’s Resolutions for UX Designers in 2019
- 7 Freelance Writing Podcasts For Those That Love to Create and Convert
2018
December
- Shopify's Web Design and Development Blog in Review: The Top 10 Articles of 2018
- How to Create Fast, Impressive Proposals That Sell
- What’s New at Shopify: Year in Review 2018
- The 15 Web Design Books of 2018 You Can’t Afford to Miss
- Understanding DesignOps and Their Role in Design Teams
- 10 Sustainable Holiday Gifts For Designers and Developers in 2018
- Using Humor in Design: Why, When, and How
- 3 Ways to Use a Phone Number to Boost Your Client’s Business
- Your Network is Your Net Worth: The Basics of Networking as a Shopify Partner
- Announcing the App Development Certification Exam in Shopify Partner Academy
November
- Developer Digest: November 30, 2018
- How to Optimize Popups on Your Clients’ Stores
- How to Use White Space in Your Mobile Designs
- What Are the Most Important Website Metrics You Should Track?
- Leading Successful Discovery Sessions: Set the Stage for Client Projects
- Symmetry vs. Asymmetry Difference in Layout Design
- Affiliates 101: What is the Shopify Affiliate Program and How Can You Successfully Apply
- What’s New: November 16th, 2018
- Understanding hreflang Tags for Multilingual Stores
- Sustainable UX: How Designers Can Help Make a Positive Impact on the Environment
- 5 Content Angles That Only Affiliates Can (and Should) Create
- How Driving Quality Traffic Will Boost Conversion
- Giving Feedback: What We’ve Learned About Building Strong Design and Development Teams
- The Shopify GraphQL Learning Kit
- The Essential List of Resources for Shopify Theme Development
- Developer Digest: Nov. 1, 2018
October
- 7 Ways to Spice Up Your Website for Halloween
- A Step-by-Step Guide on Building Processes to Scale your Development Agency
- 10 Essential Front-End Developer Skills to Help You Move Faster in Your Career
- Guidelines and Resources for Getting Listed in the Shopify App Store
- 6 Ways to Help Merchants Make More Sales This Black Friday/Cyber Monday
- What’s New at Shopify: Oct. 12, 2018
- How to Find Support as a Shopify Partner
- Is Your Mental Model a Confusing Mess to Users?
- How to Interview Candidates and Get Real Results
- Should Your Agency Adopt an Agile Process?
- Level Up Your Shopify POS Knowledge to Support Your Clients
September
- Designing for Conversion: A New Course Series to Level up Your Skills
- How Singapore’s Jumpstart Commerce is Taking Over the World
- We’re Rolling out Locations to Merchants: Here's What You Need to Know
- How To Harness The Power of Process Mapping
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Rapid Prototyping
- The AI-Empowered Marketer: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help You and Your Clients Increase Sales
- How to Get the Most out of Shopify Pursuit: A Conference for Growth, Connection, and Community
- On Scaling, Search, and Design Sprints: The Story of the New Shopify App Store
- How We Built Out Our Reporting Dashboard with Shopify Polaris
- What's New at Shopify: September 7, 2018
- How to be Successful on the New Shopify App Store
- Introducing the New Shopify App Store
August
- Cold Outreach: How to Build Warm Relationships with Potential Clients
- 4 Essential Tips for Building Your First Shopify Theme
- 4 Things to Consider When Designing Wholesale Stores for Clients
- Announcing the Speakers for Shopify Pursuit 2018 (and 3 Reasons Why You Should Give a Lightning Talk)
- Customer Service Strategy: How to Build, Augment, and Scale Your Support Offering
- Design Psychology: 12 Ways to Convert Users into Buyers
- 7 Google Calendar Extensions for Chrome to Help You Get Organized
- Upgrade to Shopify Polaris : The Nuts and Bolts of our Implementation
- 10 Podcasts to Help You Get Creative
- What’s New at Shopify: August 2, 2018
- Client Onboarding: How a One-Man Agency Qualifies Leads and Turns Them Into Clients
July
- How to Use Smart Defaults to Reduce Cognitive Load
- Why Fonts Matter: How Fonts Help You Build a Better Shopping Experience
- Announcing Pursuit: An International Conference Series to Help You Grow, Learn, and Connect
- How to Use Shopify’s New font_picker Settings
- Prove Yourself: 4 Ways to Demonstrate Your Expertise
- Truth In Advertising: How to Differentiate Your Marketing Agency Through Radical Transparency
- 10 Technical SEO Tips to Get the Most from an Ecommerce Website
- Always Listen to Mo: How Mohamed Ali Aguel Became an Ecommerce Education Superstar
- How to Improve Your Theme Development Workflow
- The UX Writer Role Has Arrived, But Is It Here To Stay?
- Shopify Locations: What This Update Means for App Developers
- A Freelancer’s Guide to Taking a Vacation
- Frictionless Experience: How to Create Smooth User Flows
June
- What Led us to Consider Polaris, Shopify’s Design System
- Announcing Shopify Partner Academy Technical Exams: Test Your Knowledge and Elevate Your Craft
- 10 Accounts to Follow on Instagram for UX & Web Design Inspiration
- What’s New at Shopify: June 22, 2018
- How the New GraphQL Admin API Can Help You Manage Inventory and Locations
- Using Liquid on the Order Status Page
- Facebook Marketing: Six Steps to Auditing Low Performing Facebook Ads
- Indexable PWAs: Making Progressive Web Apps Perform for Users and Search Engines
- 5 Facebook Messenger Marketing Tactics You Should Use on Your Clients' Stores
- Five Steps to Successful Client Management
- 10 Useful Newsletters for Keeping Web Developers Current
- What’s New at Shopify: June 8, 2018
- The Shopify Partner Business Philosophy: Community Over Competition
- Increase Merchant Trust: Introducing Updates to the Shopify Order API
- 15 Myths That Can Ruin Your Mobile UX
- Selling Shopify: How to Educate Your Clients About Shopify
- How to Avoid Messing Up That Crucial Pitch Meeting
May
- Understanding Shopify Theme Styles and Presets With settings_data.json
- Top 10 Cyber Security Facts: Information You Need to Know
- How to Create Your Own Slate Starter Theme
- What App Developers Need to Know About GDPR
- Top 10 Trends in Mobile Design in 2018
- Five Useful Usability Testing Tools Proven to Convince Clients
- Unite 2018 Keynote Roundup: Bringing Commerce to Everyone, Everywhere
- The Key Aspects to Consider When Building Multilingual Websites
- Introducing Shopify Developer Tools for macOS
- What is the Gig Economy and How do You Succeed in it
- What's New at Shopify: Wrapping up Unite 2018
- Level-Up Your Theme Development with the Next Release of Slate
- Platform Updates That Will Help you Extend Your Offering and Build Faster
- Build the Future of Immersive Shopping Experiences—Introducing New Ways to Work with AR/VR
- 3 Ways We're Helping Shopify Partners Build Better Businesses in 2018
- 3 New Ways to Entice and Engage App Users—Marketing Activities App Extension and Ping
- Build Better Apps Faster with the New Admin API in GraphQL
- Introducing New Updates to Polaris: More Ways to Build a Great App UI
- How to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Efforts: Develop an Audience-First Paid Media Strategy
- How to Get Social at Unite (and Where to Catch the Livestream)
- Reactive UI Animations with CSS Variables
April
- How to Build a Shopify App in One Week
- 5 of the Best Prototyping Tools to Test Out Your Web and Mobile Designs
- Shopify Partner Academy: A Certification Program to Help You Succeed
- Building a Business that Works for You and Not the Other Way Around
- 10 Podcasts for Exploring Machine Learning
- Designing for the Next Billion Users
- The 2017 Shopify Commerce Awards — Apps and Development Honorable Mentions
- How to Use Math Filters with Liquid
- Introducing Shopify Partner Perks: Exclusive Discounts to Help You Grow
- Selling a UX Design Process That Ensures Results
- How to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Efforts: Using Customer Profiles to Optimize Conversion Rates
- What’s New at Shopify: April 6, 2018
- Announcing the 2018 Shopify Unite Livestream Events
- Using CSS Animations to Guide a Better Ecommerce Experience
- 5 Social Media Automation Tools to Help you Grow Your Business’ Online Following
March
- Building Apps: 3 Things we Learned in Making Design Consistent and Scalable
- Working With a Grid Layout: How Breaking the Grid Can Create Memorable Experiences for Clients
- The 25 Best Sublime Text Plugins for Front End Developers
- In Search of the American Dream: How Ethercycle Found Success with Shopify
- Inclusive Design: 12 Ways to Design for Everyone
- [Free Webinar] Building Your First Shopify App
- Grow Your Freelancer Network: Solve Problems, Get Clients
- How to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Efforts: Choosing the Right Affiliate Offers
- The Power of the Dark Side: Dark User Interfaces
- How to Use Alternate Templates in Shopify Theme Development
- Announcing the Honorable Mentions of the 2017 Commerce Awards
- Announcing the Winners of the 2017 Shopify Commerce Awards
- Why Merchandise is the Next Big Game Monetization Strategy and How You Can Get Involved
- What’s New at Shopify: March 9, 2018
- Building an Accessible Breadcrumb Navigation with Liquid and Shopify
- How 4 Shopify Partners Stumbled Onto the Unexpected at Unite
- Working Together: How Having an Integrated App Can Grow Your User Base
February
- 4 Common SEO Myths and Tips to Avoid Them
- [Free Webinar] Creating Accessible React Apps
- 9 Web Design Conferences to Supercharge Your 2018
- On the Edge of Ecommerce: How Mote Found Success with Shopify
- UI of the Future: The Basic Principles of Conversational User Interfaces
- How to Generate a Shopify Access Token
- 10 Ways to Improve User Engagement for Your App This Valentine's Day
- UI of the Future: Conversational Interfaces
- What’s New at Shopify: Feb 9, 2018
- Selling Shopify: How to Grow Your Business by Expanding Your Service Offering
- Team Management Skills 101: Level-Up as an Agency Leader
- The Pivotal Role of User Experience Design in Brand Building
- What is Personal Branding? A Freelancer’s Guide
January
- How to Add CSS Text Animation to Custom Themes
- What is Inbound Marketing?
- How to Find a Mentor and Build a Strong Relationship
- The Power of Community: How Business Networking Can Nurture Your Growth
- Friday Inspiration: 9 Visually Compelling Ways to Feature Products
- 4 Must-Read Shopify Docs to Maximize your Success on the Shopify App Store
- Why Building Infographics Should be Part of Your Content Marketing Strategy
- Three Types of Trending Apps in 2017 and What You Can Learn for 2018
- Building Nested Navigations with Shopify Link List
- New to Your Partner Dashboard: Powerful Affiliate Tools for Campaign Tracking
- How to Manipulate Images with the img_url Filter
- The Smart Content Marketing Funnel - A Guide on Matching Content Types to the Customer Buying Stage
2017
December
- Shopify's Web Design and Development Blog in Review: The Top 10 Articles of 2017
- Announcing Shopify’s New Sketch Plugin: Polaris Telescope
- 7 Beautifully Designed Apps to Inspire You Over the Holidays
- How to Generate Leads for Your Business Using Content
- Getting Started With a CSS Grid Layout on Shopify
- Your Guide to Ecommerce Microsites: How, When, and Why to Build Them
- How to Craft the Best 404 Pages for your Clients
- 6 Email Marketing Campaign Ideas to Stand Out in a Crowded Inbox
- 12 Holiday Gifts For Designers and Developers
- The Importance of Data Analytics and Collection
November
- What is Content Strategy and Why Your Business Needs One
- Winning Wholesale Business: Leading B2B Clients into the Digital World
- What’s New at Shopify: Nov. 24, 2017
- A Beginner's Git Guide with Shopify
- 10 Apps to Boost Your Content Marketing Efforts
- Starting Your Own Web Design Company: How to Freelance, Find Clients, and Grow Your Business
- 5 Reasons Your App UI is Causing Merchants to Uninstall
- Content Monetization: How it Works and Mistakes to Avoid
- What’s New at Shopify: Nov. 10, 2017
- 5 Tips on Hosting an Epic Shopify Meetup
- How Theme Developers Can Learn From Brutalist Web Design
- How to Win Shopify’s Commerce Awards 2017: The Judges Weigh-In
- Announcing Unite 2018: Shopify’s Partner and Developer Conference
- How to Build an Abandoned Cart Email Sequence
- Vue.js Tutorial — A Guide on Prototyping Web Apps
October
- Shopify's Mobile Device Testing Lab Gets Wheels
- Strategies for Successfully Defining and Winning Client Projects
- What’s New at Shopify: October 27, 2017
- How Smart Design Patterns can Improve Store Conversions
- [Free Webinar] Working with Clients: How to Become a Client Whisperer
- Teaching Code: A Getting Started Guide
- How to Save Your Clients Money with Shopify Shipping
- 4 Affiliate Marketing Strategies to Sell More in Any Market
- New to Your Partner Dashboard: Transferred Stores and Better Payouts Data
- What’s New at Shopify: October 13, 2017
- How to Choose the Right A/B Testing Strategy for Your Clients
- Thinking about A/B Testing for Your Client? Read This First.
- Build an Eye-Catching Non-Rectangular Header Design
- [Free Webinar] Shopify Shipping 101: How to Pitch Shopify Shipping to Clients
September
- Top 10 Podcasts for App Developers
- How Google’s AMP Project is Changing the Mobile Web
- The Shopify Partner Program 2.0 — A Partnership You Can Build On
- “How Much Should I Charge?” — Why You're Undercharging and How to Fix It
- 8 Easy Time Management Tips for Freelancers
- [Free Webinar] Vue(.js) from the Back(end): Building a Robust Front End to Compliment Your Backend
- 25 Affiliate Resources You Can’t Miss
- Building a Clickable Call-to-Action Button for Your Shopify Theme
- [Free Webinar] Getting Started with GraphQL on Shopify
- Introducing the Next Shopify Partner Accelerator
- What is Gamification? How to Encourage Engagement in Your Shopify App
- UX Designers: Are You Focusing Too Heavily on Creating a Beautiful UI?
- Go Back to School With These Online Courses for Continuous Learning
- Working With Technology Clients: Strategies, Apps, and Themes to Consider
August
- How to Develop an Effective Creative Brainstorming Process
- A Simpler Way to Manage Custom Storefronts
- Starting a Facebook Group: How to Build an Online Community to Help You Grow
- 4 Crucial Steps to Building Strong Client Relationships
- [Free Webinar] How to be TRULY Customer-Centric
- Writing a Freelance Invoice That Gets You Paid Faster
- How an India-Based Web Developer Quit His Day Job and Built an Agency
- 14 Image Tools for Web Developers in 2017
- 4 Tips to Help You Create a Profitable Affiliate Blog Post
- Building a VR Shopping Experience for the Web: Tips and Takeaways
- How to Use Polaris to Build an App UI in HTML or React
- How Web Fonts Can Enhance Your Client’s Custom Ecommerce Store
- Growing Your Agency’s Revenue: 3 Metrics to Help You Plan for the Future
- 5 Retail Industry Trends to Get your Clients Excited about Shopify POS and Offline Selling
- [Free Webinar] Building Blocks: How to Create Custom Theme Sections and Blocks
- 15 App Developers and Programmers You Should be Following on Twitter
- Announcing The Shopify Commerce Awards — Celebrating 2017’s Best in Commerce Innovation
- The Web Designer’s Guide to Client Onboarding
- The Top 4 Reasons Users Abandon Their Carts and What to Do About it
July
- 5 Easy-to-Implement Website Maintenance Tips for Your Client's Ecommerce Business
- Working with Apparel Clients: Trends, Apps, and Themes to Consider
- Product Photography Tutorials — Master Ecommerce Images with These 6 Post-Production Techniques
- Product Management Basics: Identifying Customer Pain Points and Validating Ideas
- [Free Webinar] Dirty Little Tricks From The Dark Corners of Ecommerce
- 11 Actionable Social Media Tips for Your Web Design and Development Business
- A Day with Shopify 2017: Announcing Speakers and Sessions
- Crafting Faster Themes: How the Shopify Themes Team Tackled Narrative's Web Performance
- How to Get Your Clients Up and Running With Shopify POS
- Using Responsive Images to Decrease Page Loading Times
- [Free Webinar] Building Great App User Interfaces with Polaris
- How to Use Shopify's Android Buy SDK to Build Commerce into Mobile Apps
- How Shopify Plus Partner Createur Helped Migrate One of Australia’s Top Online Retailers
- Why You Should Add Shopify POS to Your Service Offering
- How to Write a Business Email Prospective Clients Will Never Forget
June
- How Open Graph Tags can Optimize Social Media Experiences
- Post-Launch Services as a Deliverable: The Win-Win Approach
- The Statement of Work: How to Move Past Proposals and Win More Clients
- Give Your Clients a Leg Up: 4 IoT Use Cases to Consider
- 7 Tips to Help Cultivate Authenticity for your Affiliate Marketing Business
- 8 Easy Ways to Master Continual Learning in the Web Design and Development Industry
- How Accessing the Partner Ecosystem Can Help You Grow Your Business
- How to Use Google Analytics to Improve Your Web Design Projects
- [Free Webinar] Getting Started with Sass and Shopify
- Enhancing the Merchant Handoff Experience
- How to Build Usability Testing Into Everything You Do
- Finding Technical Talent: Candidate Experience and Interviews
- [Free Webinar] Building Commerce into Mobile Apps with Shopify's Android Buy SDK
- Announcing A Day with Shopify 2017 — A Conference for Partners by Partners
May
- Finding Technical Talent: Sourcing Candidates and Outreach Strategies
- How You Can Maximize Your Marketing With Any Budget
- How to Make the Most of Shopify's New Price Rules API
- Finding Technical Talent: How to Start the Hiring Process
- How Shopify Plus Partner Maestrooo Balances Building Themes and Apps, with Client Work
- How to Conduct Research That Drives A/B Testing
- Introducing the New Shopify Partner Dashboard
- [Free Webinar] Applicable ES6: Tips and Treats With Wes Bos
- Introduction to Shopify Theming for WordPress Theme Developers
- Learn to Build Apps for In-Person Sales Using Shopify's POS App SDK
- 4 Lesser Known but Powerful Web Developer Tools that Increase Productivity
- Tips and Tricks for Managing Remote Employees
- Mobile App Onboarding: The Do’s and the Don’ts
- How to Convince Others of Your Design Direction
- Building Narrative : Shopify's New Theme for Storytelling
April
- How to Get the Most Out of Shopify’s Design System Polaris
- Unite 2017: Take the Path That Leads to More Entrepreneurs (and Other Keynotes)
- [Free Webinar] Slate: A Starting Point for Your Next Shopify Theme
- Enhancing the Ecommerce Experience: Recent Updates to Shopify’s Online Store and Liquid
- Building for Developer Success with Shopify’s Newest APIs
- Custom Storefronts — Building Commerce Anywhere
- Join the Conversation at Unite (on the Ground or via the Livestream)
- [Free Webinar] Developing Embedded Apps for Shopify POS
- The Unite Checklist: How to Maximize Your Time at Unite 2017
- The Beginner’s Guide to Building Shopify Themes with Sections
- 12 Free Tools for Remote Developers and Designers
- Creating Dynamic Color Schemes with Theme Options and Presets
- How to Earn Passive Income: The Insider’s Guide
- You’re Nothing Special: How to Stand Out in a Crowded Marketplace
March
- [Free eBook] Grow Volume 3: Building a Profitable Web Design Business
- Pitching Animation: How to Talk About Motion in a Design-Centric Way
- Designing Social Proof Into Your Ecommerce Website
- Shopify Unite 2017: Announcing Track Sessions
- Shopify’s Buy Button 101: How to Use BuyButton.js in a WordPress Theme
- 20 Insightful Business Lessons My Agency Learned in 2016
- The Benefits of Adding a Shopify Landing Page to Your Portfolio Site (and How to Make One)
- How to Improve Your App’s Design and Gain More Users
- Creative Side Projects: A How-To Guide
- [Free Webinar] Hiring the Best Technical Talent for Your Web Design and Development Business
- A Sneak Peek at Shopify Unite 2017
- The Ultimate Secret to Increasing Your Online Conversion Rate
February
- Why and How to Improve Your Writing as a Web Designer or Developer
- 9 Slack Integrations to Boost Your Team's Productivity
- 8 Free Resources For Learning Web Design and How to Code
- What Keeps All the Devs in Your Yard? How to Retain Technical Talent for Your Agency
- What is Progressive Enhancement and Why Should You Care?
- 8 Beautifully Designed Ecommerce Stores to Inspire Your Valentine’s Day
- A Day With Shopify: A Community Making Connections
- How to Use JavaScript to Add Ecommerce to Any Website
- Introducing Shopify’s Draft Orders API
- How to Use Psychology to Shape Your Ecommerce Success
- 4 Trendy Visual Design Techniques
- [Free Webinar] Meaningful Animation for User Experience
January
- 8 Conferences to Save Your New Year's Resolution
- 7 Years of Business. 7 Pieces of Advice. How ‘We Make Websites’ Became #1
- Four Smart Reasons to Embed a Shopify Store in Your Client Websites
- Building Icon Systems With SVG
- Announcing Shopify’s Build a BIGGER Business Competition
- 10 Successful Marketing Campaigns to Inspire Your Next Project
- What the Most Successful Apps Launched in 2016 Can Teach You for 2017
- Like Moths to a Flame: How to Attract (and Keep) Your Dream Clients
- The Ultimate Guide to Getting Powerful Client Testimonials (With 6 Simple Questions)
- When Should You Personalize The Ecommerce Experience?
- Working On-Retainer: Why the Survival of Your Development Business Rests on Long-Term Clients
- Dirty CSS Hacks for Responsive Emails
- The Power of Partnerships: How to do Right by Your Clients and Make Money in the Process
- 7 Content Ideas That Will Drive Revenue for Your Agency
- [Free Webinar] Developing with Shopify: Using JavaScript to Add Ecommerce to Any Website
2016
December
- Holiday Reading List: The Top 10 Stories of 2016
- 16 Web Conference Talks You Need to Watch This Holiday
- Principles of Product Design: Learn Fast, Guess Less
- 10 Beautiful Christmas-Themed Ecommerce Websites to Get You in The Holiday Spirit
- A Year of #PartnerPicks: Inspiration for Your Next Ecommerce Project
- An Interview With BuzzFeed’s VP of Design Cap Watkins
- What Brings All the Devs to the Yard? How to Find the Best Technical Talent for Your Agency
- [Free Industry Report] The Opportunities, Threats, and Future of the Consumer Electronics Industry
- How Ecommerce Stores Are Designing Web Pages for the Christmas Shopping Season
- 5 Ways to Remedy Your Freelance Accounting Headaches
- The Secret to Persuading Clients to Hire Your Design Firm
- Best Practices for Developing Scalable (and Sustainable) Shopify Themes
- 12 Holiday Gifts for the Designers and Developers in Your Life
- Jeffrey Zeldman Shares His Advice for Aspiring Freelance Web Designers
November
- [Free Webinar] Dirty Little Tricks From the Dark Corners of Front-End
- [Free Industry Report] The Future of the Fashion and Apparel Industry
- A Guide to Growing Your Agency by Upselling Clients
- From Debt to Dollar Bills: How One Sri Lankan Teen Transformed His Life With Freelancing
- 15 YouTube Channels Every Web Designer And Developer Should Subscribe To
- 6 Animation Libraries to Save Time and WOW Clients
- Developing Shopify Themes with Accessibility in Mind
- Kickstart Your Speaking Career: How To (Metaphorically) Drop The Mic
- The Case for Continual Development: The New Way to Approach Ecommerce
- Building a Brand: How to Create a Lasting Impression for Your Clients
- Using the Shopify API to Credit Merchants for App Charges
- Everything You Need to Prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday
- Introducing BuyButton.js – Shopify's New JavaScript Library
- How Social Media Can Help You Grow Your Freelance or Agency Business
- Everything You Need to Know About Whitespace
- [Free Webinar] Deep Dive Into Shopify Plus
October
- Font Pairing For Designers 101, Plus 10 Free Font Pairing Tools
- Introducing Sections for Shopify Themes
- Designing with SVG: How Scalable Vector Graphics Can Increase Visitor Engagement
- Meet the New Residents of the Shopify Partner Accelerator
- Streamline Your Ecommerce Experience With The Laws of Simplicity
- Designing With Customer Service In Mind Above All Else
- Sketchnoting 101: Tips For Improving Your Visual Vocabulary
- How Pixel Union Expanded Their Service Offerings and 10x’d Their Business
- The Ecommerce Proposal Guide for Shopify Experts
- 3 Essential Tips for Refactoring CSS Without Losing Your Mind
- 6 Design Conferences to Last You 'Til The End of 2016
- Announcing Unite 2017: Shopify’s Partner and Developer Conference
September
- 3 Simple Ways Your Agency Can Use Content Marketing to Build a Better Brand and Find New Clients
- 8 Things I Learned at Beyond The Code
- 20 Expert Strategies to Help Overcome Creative Blocks
- 14 Agencies and Freelancers You Should Follow on Instagram
- 12 Rules of Engagement When Running Design Critiques from NASDAQ’s Aaron Irizarry
- How to Write a Freelance Contract 101
- Why You Should Stop Responding to RFPs and Do This Instead
- Web Design Experts Share Their Advice for Attracting Your Next Client
- Forget User Experience. Start Thinking About Client Experience.
- Customize Shopify Password Pages With the password.liquid Template
- The Toughest Client Questions and How to Answer Them
- NYC, London, Montreal, Austin: Say Hello to the Shopify Partner Accelerator
- Get to the Heart of Your Clients' Ecommerce Dilemmas With the 5 Whys
- How to Improve Your Shopify App's Onboarding Flow
August
- The Counter-Intuitive Approach to Getting Your First Client
- 15 More Chrome Extensions That Will Increase Your Productivity as a Web Designer
- How to Use Icons to Enhance Your Ecommerce Website
- From Freelance to Agency: Advice for Growing Your Team
- Why Can't We Be Friends: Finding the Balance Between Marketing and Design
- Announcing the Winners of the 2016 Ecommerce Design Awards
- Powering Mobile Apps With the New iOS and Android Buy SDKs
- How to Use Video in Ecommerce Web Design to Boost Conversions
- Why Your Contact Page is the Most Important Part of Your Portfolio Website
- 20 Web Designers and Developers You Should be Following on Twitter
- 6 Places to Find Design Inspiration Early in Your Process
- 5 Tools for Headache-Free Freelancer Invoicing
- Growing Together: A Look Back on the Shopify Partner Studio NYC
- 3 High-Impact Tips for Designing an Ecommerce Site That Converts
- 4 Quick Ways to Build Trust With a New Client
July
- From Reddit to Redesign: How Fuel Made Increased One Merchant's Revenue by 30%
- How to Successfully Execute an Iterative Redesign in Shopify with Optimizely
- Split-Testing: How to Run a Revenue-Driven Test in Shopify
- 9 Tools That Will Help You Collaborate Effectively as a Freelancer
- 9 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Post-Mortem Meetings
- 6 Time Management Strategies to Transform the Way You Work
- 4 Overlooked Tactics to Find New Clients Offline
- The Seven Deadly Sins of User Experience Design
- 8 Development Tips for Building Better Custom Shopify Sites
- Protecting Yourself From Freelancer Exploitation
- A Short Tutorial for Running A/B Tests in Shopify with Optimizely
June
- Why You Should Bill 100% Up-Front
- 9 Tools for Website Accessibility Testing
- 5 Easy Ways to Make Your Portfolio Website Look Fresh
- How to Grow From Freelancing to Founding Your Own Agency
- [Free Webinar] Office Hours: How to Double Your Agency’s Revenue Using Content Marketing
- 8 Agency Founders Share Their Top Tips on Achieving (Some) Work-Life Balance
- Improve Your Design Process With These 4 Deliverables
- 9 Tips for Hiring a Web Design Subcontractor
- Why and How to Improve Ecommerce Website Accessibility
- A Quick Guide to Getting Started with User Experience Design
- 5 Websites to Download Free Subtle Textures and Gradients for Flat Design 2.0
- 15 Web Design Podcasts You Need to Listen to in 2016
- 10 Places to Find Design Inspiration Online
- Announcing the New Shopify Plus Partner Program
- How to Build a Great Design Portfolio — Shopify Designers Weigh In
- 15 Chrome Extensions That Will Make You a More Productive Web Designer
- A Web Designer’s Guide to Pricing Strategies
- How to Give Good Creative Feedback
May
- Why App Developers Should Use Shopify’s Integrated Billing
- How to Create a Sticky Add to Cart Button On Scroll
- 6 Questions to Help You Gauge Client Fit
- How to Win the 2016 Ecommerce Design Awards - Part 2 with Verne Ho
- 4 Ways to Perfect Your Approach to Creative Project Management
- New York, Mexico City...Where Will the Shopify Partner Studio Go Next?
- Strategy Meets Technology: 4 Prime Targets for Conversion Rate Optimization
- Shopify’s Director of Design Talks Tools, Trends, and How to Take Charge
- Getting Started with Shopify Scripts: A Practical Walkthrough
- 6 Tips for Building a Web Design Process That Boosts Your Team’s Efficiency
- How Cutting out Jargon can Help you Achieve Clear Communication
- 7 Tips to Calculate Your Freelance Rate
- Why, How, and When to Utilize Usability Testing
- Meet the New Freelancers in the NYC Shopify Partner Studio
April
- 6 New App Ideas That Need To Be Made in Shopify
- 7 Tactics for Handling Late and Non-Payment
- The Benefits of Using a UI Kit
- 6 Ways to Prepare for a Client’s Online Traffic Spike
- 5 Questions You Should Ask Your Clients Before Every Web Design Project
- 8 Best Practices for Designing an Ecommerce Site that Converts
- [Free Webinar] How to Convert Visitors Through Persuasive Design
- Conquering Our Caffeine Addiction: 8 Surprising Substitutes for Coffee
- 9 Noteworthy Coworking Spaces in NYC
- 3 Design Tips for Reducing Your Online Store's Bounce Rate
- How to Set Your Client’s Branding Apart
- [Free eBook] Become a Full-stack Freelancer With Grow Vol. 2
- Why We’re Sending a Shopify Developer Around the World (And How You Can Connect With Her)
- An In-Depth Look Into Designing a Shopify Theme
- Inside the Shopify Partner Studio (And How You Can Apply for Round 2)
- 3 Strategies for Improving User Experience in Your Ecommerce Designs
March
- Here’s What Happened at Unite, Shopify’s First Partner and Developer Conference
- How to Create a Client Intake Process That Saves You Time and Headaches
- How to Use Video Footage in Web Design
- Expert Advice for Branding Your Shopify App
- Introducing the Ecommerce Design Awards 2016: Enter for a Chance to Win a Trip to NYC to 10x Your Design Skills
- We’re Expanding Shopify’s API So You Can Build Bigger & Better
- You Can Now Charge for Shopify Apps Based on Usage
- Unite 2016 Recap: Using Shopify’s Platform to Enable Commerce Everywhere
- Shopify Opens its Platform to Developers With New Sales Channel SDK
- You Can Now Build a Complete Ecommerce Store On Any Website or Mobile App
- Build Unique Customer Experiences Using Shopify's API
- Can’t Make Unite? Join Us on the Livestream
- Designing With the User's Context in Mind
- How Bold Commerce is Innovating in the Present, and Dreaming Big for the Future [Part III]
- Shopify Tutorial: The product.liquid template
- 2 Guys. 6 Months. 7 Apps.
- Going Deep on a Great Night’s Sleep
- Major Gains and Growing Pains — How Bold Scaled Their Team Sustainably [Part II]
- Top Ecommerce Web Design Trends for March
- How to Integrate Shopify into your Client's WordPress Website with Zillacommerce
- How Bold Commerce Built an App Development Company From the Basement Up [Part I]
February
- 8 Quick Tips for a Bulletproof Freelance Contract
- 5 Professional Life Hacks to Get Bigger and Better in Your Freelance Design Career
- Shopify Leadership Share Why They’re Excited About Unite
- 4 Advanced Shopify Theming Techniques to Add to Your Workflow
- How Understanding a Brand Mission Will Make You a Better Designer
- 5 Things You Should Look For in an Ecommerce Platform as an App Developer
- Creating Useful CSS Hooks in Liquid
- How a Partner Team of Two Introduced an Old-World Antique Shop to New-World POS
- Why We Rented an Office in NYC and Gave it Away for Free
- For Designers, By Designers: InVision's Marketplace Launches On Shopify
- How URLs Map to Shopify Templates
- Why Freelancers Need to Care About Bookkeeping
- 3 Easy Steps for Working with Realistic Data in Sketch Using JSON
- 5 Things You Should Know About Forming Strategic Partnerships
- Top Ecommerce Web Design Trends from January
- How to Use Liquid's "case/when" Control Tags in Shopify Themes
January
- 10 Top Questions About Developing Shopify Themes Answered
- 7 Secrets for Balancing Freelance Projects With Your 9 to 5
- 5 Essential Emails to Design for Every Ecommerce Site You Build
- How to Use all_products in a Shopify Theme
- 2 Real-Time Features That Every Developer Should Include in Their Ecommerce Sites
- Top 13 Web Design Conferences You Should Attend in 2016
- 10 Pieces of Advice for Scaling Your Web Design Business
- How to Write a Web Design Case Study that Lands New Clients
- What is Markdown Syntax?
- 5 Ways to Improve Your Ecommerce Design for Colourblind Users
- The Power of Alternate Layout Files in Shopify Theme Development
- 7 Tips to Maximize Your Use of The Shopify API
- 5 Killer Web Design Trends to Watch in 2016
- Announcing Unite: Shopify's Partner and Developer Conference
- Partner Spotlight: Disco Brings Useful Gifts to Shopify Plus
2015
December
- Top Ecommerce Resources for December
- Holiday Reading List: The Top 10 Stories of 2015 from Shopify Partners
- 6 Tips for Crafting Great Web Copy That Converts
- Basic Elements of Ecommerce Website Design
- 5 Creative Strategies for Using Overlays to Boost Conversions During the Holidays
- 8 Things My Mom Taught Me About UX
- 6 Social Media Services You Can Offer to Your Clients
- The User Experience Delusion
- 10 Successful Web Designers Share Their Best Advice for Aspiring Freelancers
- 5 Reasons Why App Integrations Benefit Ecommerce Websites
- 3 Digital Marketing Strategies for High-Priced Inventory
- 7 Tips to Help Your Clients Sell More This Holiday Season
- 12 Budget-Friendly Christmas Gift Ideas for Web Designers
- 5 Design Tips to Boost Conversions this Holiday Season
November
- How to Create a Compelling Web Design Portfolio
- Holiday Buyer Psychology — 5 Things You and Your Clients Need to Know
- Top Ecommerce Resources for November
- 5 Shopify Store Design Elements to Maximize Holiday ROI
- 10 Things I Learned About UX By Being Drunk
- 3 Steps to Maximize Your Client’s Holiday Revenue Before 2016
- Partner Spotlight: Pointer Creative Integrates Shopify into Lassie Co.'s Wordpress Site
- 4 Ways to Give Some Holiday Flair to an Ecommerce Store
- Announcing the Winners of Shopify and Dribbble’s Design Contest
- Speed Things Up: Designing a Fast Experience for Better Mobile UX
- How to Make the Most of the Shopify Embedded App SDK
- How We Built a Global Empire from a Small Island in the Pacific Ocean
- 5 Ways to Prepare Your Clients for Black Friday
- 5 Simple Hacks for an Optimized Mobile Ecommerce Design
October
- How A/B Testing Will Make You a Better Web Designer
- Top Ecommerce Resources for October
- Customer Obsession: Driving Client Decisions the Amazon Way
- Why Every Shopify Store Needs a Marketing & Sales Funnel
- How to Make a Brands or Trends Page in an Ecommerce Store Using Link Lists
- 3 Effective Ways to Help Your Clients Get Their Products Seen and Sold
- Partner Spotlight: Helium Development Helps Rhino Gear Switch from Magento to Shopify
- How to Enter Your Clients in this Year’s Build A Business Competition
- The Profitable Ecommerce Designer
- What Has Design Taught You? Enter Shopify + Dribbble’s Design Contest
- How to Upload and Animate SVG Icons in 3 Simple Steps
- Announcing the Winners of the 2014-2015 Shopify Ecommerce Design Awards
- The Use of Color Contrast in Mobile Ecommerce Design
- How to Get the Most out of the Timber Theme Framework
September
- Crank Up Your Design Productivity with These 6 Little Known Tips
- Top Ecommerce Resources for September
- Partner Spotlight: DBNY Builds a Product Customization App
- 12 Incredible Resources for Downloading Icon Packs
- How I Built a Notification Gadget for my Shopify Store
- 4 Tips for Building a Shopify App That Sells
- Best Practices for Designing High Converting Landing Pages
- 5 Ways to Ensure Your Client's Online Business is Tax Compliant
- How Fiction Inspires Great Design Thinking
- The Top UX Elements to Optimize Your Clients’ Product Page Design
- How to Host a Meetup
- 10 Web Design Tools to Discover Beautiful Fonts for Your Next Project
- How Building Customer Relationships Will Help You Create a Million Dollar Business
August
- 5 Ways to Help Your Clients Build a Trustworthy Online Store (Without Ever Leaving the Shopify App Store)
- Top Ecommerce Resources for August
- How to Persuade Any Client to Choose Your Design
- Last Chance to Enter the 2014-2015 Shopify Ecommerce Design Awards
- 10 Bookmark-Worthy Websites for Free Stock Photography
- Partner Spotlight: How Skyrocket Created a Brand-Based UX for Enerex
- Designing for Designers: Jen Mussari on her Shopify Partners Mug Design
- How to Host a Webinar That Attracts Clients
- Top Ecommerce Resources for July
- If I Had a Million Contracts... I'd Be Stressed
July
- Check Out This Free Ecommerce Training Business Course on Skillshare
- Why You Should Specialize in Ecommerce Design
- Add Product Photography to Your Service Offerings With These Tips
- Announcing the Winner of our 2015 Build a Business for Partners Competition
- 6 Tips on How to Get Clients
- How to Build a Winning Ecommerce Design: An Interview with Vitaly Friedman
- Partner Spotlight: SplitMango Gets Flexible With Namaste TV
June
- Partner Spotlight: ReCharge Launches 5-Hour ENERGY Subscriptions
- Why You Should Add a Content Strategist to Your Design or Development Team
- How We're Scaling From 10 to 25 Employees in 7 Months
- What Makes or Breaks an Ecommerce Shopping Experience? This Survey has the Answers
- Learning How to Code, the Long Way Around
- PODCAST: How to Measure Your Clients' Success
- 15 Unmissable Web Design Podcasts
- How to Get Published in the Shopify Theme Store
May
- What I Learned From Being My Own Client
- Creative Uses of InVision for Your Next Project
- Using JavaScript To Super Power Your Client's Shopify Site
- Grow Your Business With This Free Book
- How To Help Your Clients Monetize Instagram
- Announcing the 2014-2015 Shopify Ecommerce Design Awards
- Infographic: How To Build Long-Term Client Relationships
- Partner Spotlight: Ethercycle Boosts Conversions for Everest Bands
- Using Git to Simplify Shopify Theme Deployment
April
- An Introduction to Theme Options
- Partner Spotlight: Squashed Pixel's Award-Winning Site for Rue Marcellin
- Your Client Wants Their Store to go Viral? Here's How to Do It.
- How to Help Your Clients Get Results with Email Marketing
- Partner Spotlight: Fifty & Fifty Designs Site for Kickstarter Product
- My First Year as a Freelancer
- This is What Happens When Dribbble + Shopify Team Up in Toronto
- 7 Useful Tips On Handling Difficult Clients
- Build Your Ecommerce Business: Livestream
- How to Collect the Right Information from Your Clients
March
- Do Things, Tell People: How I Learned to be Creative
- Understanding SEO: An Excerpt From Shopify Empire
- A Day in the Life of a Shopify Partner
- Last Chance to Enter Your Clients in the Shopify Build A Business Competition
- Partner Spotlight: Jivaldi Builds American Sniper Store
- PODCAST: How Do We Build Profitable, Long-Term Relationships With Customers?
- The Importance of Investing in Your Own Website
- Why Hack Days Are Great For Designers
February
- Simple Tricks to Increase Your Creativity
- Paul Boag Shares a Favorite Ecommerce Project
- Paul Boag on Content Marketing & How to Start Your Blog
- Top 4 Tips to Tell Your Clients About Their Product Images
- How to Optimize Themes for Performance
- 5 Ways to Help Clients Succeed in the Build A Business Competition
- How To Find New Clients Using Social Media
- Top Freelance Resources on the Shopify Web Design and Development Blog
2014
September
- 12 Days of Ecommerce: How to Prep Your Client’s Shopify Store for Black Friday
- Announcing the Shopify Partners Build A Business Competition
- PODCAST: How to Convert Your Client's Visitors Into Customers
- 5 Things We Learned Creating Our First Shopify App
- How to Attract More Clients as a Shopify Partner
- How to Discover & Deliver What Shopify Merchants Need & Want