Category Archives: Web Development
What exactly does a Big Eye Deer do?!
We’re Big Eye Deers, a full service digital agency offering an extensive range of services in-house - We deliver outstanding work through a mastery of technology, great design, creative thinking and a yoga stylee bend-over-backwards attitude to customer satisfaction! Continue reading
Paypals Tap. Tap. Buy.
Paypal are attempting to facilitate consumer empowerment with their new Affirm; a two-tap checkout system for smartphones. The new speedy transaction process will encourage online shoppers to become online buyers (It’s all in the UX!).
Having identified most mobile shoppers as those who are impulsive, time-constrained or exploratory; Paypal have adjusted their mobile purchase flow to be more aligned with these motivations. Continue reading
Quick Fire Ecommerce Tips: UX
Converting visitors into buyers is like navigating a minefield littered with UX bombs if you don’t know how to create for your audience.
UX, or user experience (for those less clued up) is an emotion felt after interacting with a product, brand or website- kinda like that warm fuzzy feeling girls get when buying shoes! It’s this emotional trigger that web designers, developers and even merchants need to consider wrapping into the build at each stage of an e-commerce project. We need to give online shoppers a convenient, enjoyable experience with all the information they might need to inform their buying decision (read our previous blog on the consumer empowerment paradigm); if consumers have all they need, they’ll be far more likely to buy.
So lets get optimising the UX for your customers! Continue reading
We’re Big Eye Deers, not Big Ideas- although we have lots of those too!!!
We’re Big Eye Deers, we listen, we think and we create stunning visuals and kick ass designs. Well, that and come up with some bucking great Deer puns!
Why We Don’t Like Waterfall
Waterfall, not the watery kind but the development methodology kind, is one that few agencies use in the management of their projects… not us. We use Agile as it does what it says on the tin! It allows us to work flexibly and alter our course of action should we need to without mucking up days of coding and design work. But, before I decide which is more appropriate for you, it’s only fair that I tell you some more about Waterfall and let you arrive at my decision yourself. (trust me, Agile is the way forward!) Continue reading
How to change ‘My Cart’ in Magento theme
There are many terms and phrases within standard Magento themes that may not always apply to your online business or even your targeted customers. ‘My Cart’ and ‘Credit Memo’ are terms that may only appeal to the American audience, where in other parts of the world, ‘My Basket’ or ‘Invoice’ may be more appropriate – not that these terms are going to hugely affect your revenues, but it enhances your users experience when interacting with your store and brand. Continue reading
Lent ideas for bad web designers
It’s Ash Wednesday and in the spirit of things I’m going to provide a bucket list for those in the industry that think it’s acceptable to shove bells and whistles on a site for no other reason than because they can- Give it up already. You suck. Continue reading
Why we techi’s HATE Comic Sans
The two words that are enough to make any web designer want to stick pins in their eyes: Comic Sans. Surely you will agree it is the most terrible thing to have happened to the history of the typeface ever? But we still see it, standing jovially in its typographic clown suit virtually everywhere.
Maximise Your Social ROI! – 5 Quick Tips!
Here are our top 5 tips to ensure social commerce campaigns deliver ROI. They will help you optimise your social media activities by tracking sales and order performance… Continue reading
Magento 2
Magento 2 is the future version of our web development platform of choice; Magento. With stacks of technical and functional changes, those that wisely choose to adopt the platform will see many a positive return.
As a web design agency that specialise in Magento, we see Magento 2 as an exciting development that will only add to our user experience with the platform.
