Articles about User Experience
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PSDevCon 2024 - PUIK (PrestaShop UI Kit) - The new UI kit from PrestaShop
Explore a summary of the PUIK presentation delivered at the second PrestaShop Developer Conference
During the second PrestaShop Developer Conference on November 6, 2024, I was able to introduce PUIK (PrestaShop UI Kit) to participants. This blog post provides a written summary of the presentation. During the talk, the audience gained a clearer understanding of PrestaShop’s UI Kit, based on the new PrestaShop Design System. Learn how this library aims to provide a complete set of reusable components for the entire PrestaShop ecosystem. The GitHub repository is available here.
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PrestaShop Back Office rebranding with PrestaShop 9
PrestaShop 9 Embarks The Newly Rebranded Back Office Themes
By the end of 2023, PrestaShop unveiled a new brand identity to strengthen its position, enhance credibility, and build trust. We already announced the new branding for the project, and the PrestaShop back office is one of the last assets to follow this change. The release of PrestaShop 9 provided the perfect opportunity for this update. The rebranding involved significant changes to the PrestaShop back office, focusing on its two themes.
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Content style guide: a reference for better harmonization
A reference document for writing content
It all started with an observation: contributors brought many new wordings to the PrestaShop open source project but couldn’t access clear content guidelines. This led to a lot of inconsistencies. Wording is such an essential element of a good user experience, it was time for a change.
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Towards a more mobile-friendly back office
Quick wins for a responsive back office
Until now, PrestaShop always relied on a desktop-first responsive design strategy. Indeed, there are few use cases on mobile. But you can’t prevent users from checking their store’s back office on their mobile!
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Multistore feature in PrestaShop 1.7.8: What's new?
Introducing the revamp of the multistore
With the release of the new version 1.7.8 which is in progress, this article details one of the main features revamps of this version: the multistore.
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A journey to improve the Time To Interactive metric in Classic Theme
When the lazy loading allow us to improve the LightHouse Score
The project Core Web Vitals from Google has announced that loading time and performance will have an impact on the website ranking in search results. Google mentions lazy loading in their suggestions. Lazy loading will be available on Classic Theme in version 1.7.8 thanks to Progi1984 and it will definitely improve both user experience and loading time on your site!
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The new order pages in PrestaShop 1.7.7
Introducing the revamp of order pages
With the release of the new version 1.7.7, this article has the ambition to detail one of the major features of the version. Our work was focused on one of the most used pages by our merchants: the orders’ management page.
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How we reorganized the main menu in PrestaShop 1.7
And what you should know about it
Did you think everything had been said about PrestaShop 1.7 version? In our quest towards a simpler interface, the main menu was reorganized, mostly to make it easier for you to navigate in PrestaShop. So here are a few things you should be aware of.
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Calling for user-testing volunteers (Paris, France)
Come tell us what you think!
A lot of work has been done on the new back office for PrestaShop 1.7, most notably the reworked Product page and Modules page; as well as the brand new theme. Now, we need you to tell us what you think – face to face! As a reminder, the PrestaShop 1.7 Project FAQ is available.
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The Product Page - Evolution Revolution
When User Experience is back in business
A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, we packed PrestaShop with much needed functionalities in its core. The aim was to propose the best ecommerce solution, with the biggest functional scope, answering to almost all of the merchants’ needs — all that while still being free.
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