After a short and intense push just before the holidays, we flipped the switch to our online shop beta and are now happily processing orders for a variety of Dynamo-designed products. The shop has launched with 5 products to date, including our new self-published book on social media status messaging, Status, Vol. I hot off the press.

For the shop's guts, we employed the powerful and full-featured open-source Spree e-commerce engine, after having successfully deployed it on the Yellowbird Project website we did this past fall. We really love this e-commerce platform and are already incorporating it into a few e-comm sites that we'll launch in the spring and summer.

The clean and fresh design really makes information easy to access and keeps the products front and center and the page hierarchy in check. Each product page has an image gallery showing off several action shots of each product for close-up investigation. And while the shop already features account creation, links to our blog (including a live blog feed right on the shop's homepage), Twitter feed and Facebook pages, email order and shipment notification, shipment calculation, order tracking, industry-standard credit card processing, and a host of great backend mgmt and reporting tools, we have several enhancements already underway to make it even better. 

Since the launch, we've processed several hundred orders to a variety of countries including Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, France and Russia!

We'd love to know what you think of it so please have a look. In the comments below, let us know – what features would you like to see on our shop?

Bob - Bob is Dynamo's Creative Director, a mutlidisciplinary director / designer responsible for ensuring that our work hits strategic targets, demonstrates creative innovation and compels our client's audiences to take action. He firmly believes good design can enrich experiences, enhance communication and ultimately change the world.