Kurt Geiger (Summer 2014)

Kurt Geiger Summer 2014

I’ve worked with Kurt Geiger since 2010 developing their digital assets. This design is the 5th iteration of the Magento eCommerce website for their 2014 Summer Collection launch. This seasons design was iterative and meant to polish and improve on various user experience elements of the site and introduce the new seasonal feel. Kurt Geiger is […]

The 6 Pillars of Successful eCommerce

I’ve been working in eCommerce for a while and I thought I’d share the some of the lessons I’ve learned about the fundamentals of eCommerce along the way. As with any blog post I don’t expect to cover everything – this is not an exhaustive list. The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but […]

What Makes Retailers Great in a Digital Age

The UK’s best and worst shops were revealed by Which? recently and it is interesting to go through the findings and see what makes retailers great in a digital age. A trend in retail currently is businesses becoming more digitally enabled. But digital is complicated. A line I came up with in a digital strategy presentation for a major […]

Heavy Chef of December 2012 – eCommerce

The last Heavy Chef talk for 2012 was centred around eCommerce in South Africa and the Heavy Chef team had managed to rope in some of the local heavyweights to share their insights and thoughts. The speakers were Kate Jansen of Zando, Jenna Bloch of Kalahari and Andrew Smith of Yuppie Chef. I’ve jotted down […]

Superdry Cape Town Store Launch

On the 18th of October I was SUPER excited (to use Superdry’s language) to read that there was going to be a Superdry pop-up store opening on the 1st of November in the V&A. Given I work in the online retail space, I went straight into iCal and diarised 09h00 on the 1st of November […]