iForce Group

With over 20 years of experience in multichannel retail logistics and supply chain management, iForce Group work alongside large enterprising retailers to help them satisfy the growing expectations of their multichannel shoppers. At Swanky, we helped them achieve their goal of launching a brand new B2c (business to consumer) website by crafting them a practical and compelling new ecommerce store.

Artpiq

Founded earlier this year, ARTPIQ is an exciting new business venture which offers young and talented artists the chance to kick-start their artistic careers by crowdfunding capital for their artworks online. At Swanky, we were able to make its founders’ dreams a reality by providing them with an exquisitely designed online platform on which to showcase the works of up-and-coming artists.

Hamtun Watches

Hamtun Watches is a UK-based crowdfunded ecommerce company that specialises in building and selling high-quality automatic watches at affordable prices. Our expert team at Swanky helped Hamtun Watches outpace their competitors by creating them a compelling and user-friendly custom Shopify website design.

Winternational

Winternational are an online luxury women’s ski-wear store, providing beautiful designer ski apparel to customers across the globe. We helped them to boost their revenue by an impressive 68% and maximise their brand’s international ecommerce success by crafting them a compelling and fully customised Shopify store.

Rubies in the Rubble

Tonnes of good foods are thrown away every week due to aesthetic imperfections, over-forecasted demand or inefficiency in storing and distributing - Rubies in the Rubble is a delicious response to the (very) big problem of food waste. Rubies in the Rubble is a Taste award winner with a big vision, and so they needed a store which reflected their beautiful new brand and product packaging. We partnered with a frequent design partner of Swanky, Kane O'Flaherty, to create a bold monochrome aesthetic which makes Rubies beautiful products pop on every page and communicates their vision with a clarity and fun rarely seen in stores of this scale.

CC Bear

CC Bear are a creative family business that specialise in creating wellness-based dog biscuits. Their beautiful (and some might even say tasty!) product packaging set the tone for our online store design work. CC Bear focuses their efforts on producing just a few products, so our build breaks away from most of the design conventions common on mainstream stores - no need here for long product lists or huge mega-menus! Instead, we employed dynamic animated boxes and rollouts to make navigation through the store simple, engaging and enjoyable for customers.

Piccolo

Our friends at Piccolo created this remarkable brand, and a launch range of baby foods (currently sold in Waitrose, Ocado, Whole Foods and other stores nationwide) to introduce babies to the wonders of Mediterranean flavours! SwankyApple were contracted to provide a triple-A quality, responsive store build, complete with characterful animations and interactions. We delivered using Shopify and the latest web technologies to prepare all this on a tight schedule.

Kernoda

This bold Cornish startup retail business specialise in creating high-quality ski and outdoor apparel and accessories. Our Swanky team are proud to have crafted a compelling and comprehensive online store for their brand - complete with custom features such as a hire functionality for selected product lines. We also created two blog websites to allow the business to present detailed information about their wide and exciting range of products, contests and social feeds. By deploying Shopify and Wordpress in tandem, we were able to build a network of websites for the brand, leveraging the strengths of both platforms to give Kernoda the best digital exposure possible.

Mr Lacy

The biggest shoelace brand in the world elected to use us to consult, design and build their fabulous ecommerce store on Shopify. Our intimate knowledge of shopper psychology, mobile first design and Shopify's silky smooth loading times resulted in a store which more than doubled previous conversion rates.

Exeter City FC

Exeter City Football Club contracted Swanky to assist with a full design and development consultation for their new club merchandise store. We used Shopify to deliver a beautiful, fast shopping experience which helps fans quickly find and buy team kit and memorabilia.

Little known fact: The Brazil national football team played its first-ever game against Exeter City FC on 21 July 1914 - although, the result is disputed!

At My Best

At My Best is a team-building and self-reflection business designed to help individuals and groups identify and build upon their strengths. SwankyApple assisted WorkPositive in the design and development of this Shopify store to present their compelling and engaging product in the best light possible.

St Petrock's

St Petrock’s is an independent charity based in Exeter, Devon, working to improve the lives of people who are homeless or precariously housed. Their team provide a range of survival, referral, homelessness prevention and support services to help vulnerable people move into more settled and fulfilled lives. Swanky helped St Petrock’s envisage a new online presence which tacked long-term issues of navigation and site administration for the St Petrock's team. A comprehensive design consultation resulted in a new and unusual but highly effective information architecture which has helped a broad range of user groups find the information they need quickly. The result was a striking and compelling navigation and aesthetic that enables St Petrock's to communicate complex material clearly and engagingly.

Butterfly Children's Hospices

Butterfly Children's Hospices provide loving care and treatment for children with life-threatening illnesses in their two hospices in Changsha and Nanjing, China. Founded in Exeter, the charity have been working with the Chinese government to provide support for children and their families since 2010. Swanky were thrilled to assist the rapidly growing organisation with a brand refresh and provided them with a full website design and development consultation. The organisation's resulting new website and brand image reflects their admirable and compassionate goals and also provides means for increased social engagement and donations from those interested in its work.

Click and Grow

Click and Grow raised $625,851 through Kickstarter for their innovative indoor plant growing product. They came to Swanky for help with integrating their compelling new website into Shopify. We produced a slick, responsive site for the Click and Grow team, using advanced Shopify features to create a product up-selling function, split product descriptions, a company blog and more for an enjoyable and engaging user experience.

Race Horse Death Watch

Animal Aid, the UK's second largest animal rights charity, contracted our Swanky team to bring their charity campaigns experience to bear to create this hard-hitting campaign site. We were pleased to lend our consultation, design and development skills and created a website which is rich in information but also easy to navigate and extremely speedy. From the initial consultation, we identified a need for a bold colour scheme to display the shocking headlines and data available. We wanted to let the data do the talking so we avoided the use of shocking images, preferring to focus on refining the user experience to make the available data as accessible as possible.

Golden Bear Toys

Golden Bear design and manufacture some of the UK's best-loved children's toys - including Go Mini and Peppa Pig! Swanky was selected by Golden Bears' marketing team to head the development of their new ecommerce store. Our Shopify design expertise and early mastery of responsive design (in 2011) singled us out as the right team to create a store which would handle thousands of purchases at launch. Our use of responsive design and back-end enterprise resource management integration gave Golden Bear an early visual and operational edge against rivals who were also embarking on ecommerce site creation. The store remains a stand-out among competing toy manufacturers to this day.

Trusted Proxies

Designed specifically for the "White Hat" search engine and internet marketing industries, Trusted Proxies provides Enterprise Class Private Proxy Servers that are fast, secure and reliable. The company has grown quickly, turning from a kitchen table based startup in 2010 to a highly respected proxy service provider with clients (and services) around the globe. With this sudden rapid growth, Trusted Proxies approached us with a challenge; to make sense of their hundreds of service options (each of which had tens of differentials) so that new clients could navigate their way through to an informed purchase in a few steps as possible. We immediately identified that this was a UX (user experience) problem and set to work developing, testing and developing again - working our way toward a data-layout which would turn pages of complex data comparisons into an easy purchasing process. When we were finished we had it down to 2 easy steps. Their very effective website is therefore a combination of our advanced user experience know-how and a little technical magic.

Wheelie Chix Chic

WheelieChix is an awesome fashion label offering custom designed clothing specifically tailored for women in wheelchairs. The WheelieChix brand needed an ecommerce solution which could be updated with the minimum of ongoing cost while still looking fantastic in each quarter. Swanky was selected from a range of ecommerce providers due to our complete service offering and highly creative approach to design. We produced designs, marketing creative and a customised OpenCart based ecommerce solution to create a fast, stable, great looking ecommerce website which converts visits into buyers and plays well with search engines to help WheelieChix take advantage of its unique market segment.

Lashionista

Lashionista has broken the mould in ecommerce store design with a high-concept print feel which (seemingly!) effortlessly conveys the premium nature of the product being sold. Swanky and Lashionista worked with leading graphic artists to put together this beautiful website design, and our team then used our intimate understanding of Shopify theme creation and ecommerce best practices to make sure that the store performed as brilliantly as it looked.