For most of 2022, I was a product design intern at Shopify on the Merchandising team. My main project focused on centralizing product publishing controls on Shopify's admin to make it more efficient for merchants to manage where customers can purchase their products.
TIMELINE
June - Nov 2023
TEAM
4 designers, 2 engineers, 1 PM
STATUS
π Shipped at all merchants in 2023
RESPONSIBILITIES
User research, UX design, product thinking, prototyping
π§ Full case study coming soon!
Shopify gives merchants control over where they can publish their products and to who. The 3 main ways that merchants can control publishing:
The problem was that merchants had to manage the publishing across all 3 on different surfaces, so our goal was to centralize all publishing controls to a few key surfaces.
My internship project was to centralize all product publishing onto my main surface, the Product Index page, and assist with adding the controls to the Product Details page.
The primary purpose of this page is to give an overview of all of your products. It allows merchants to filter, sort and perform bulk actions on multiple products at once.
This is where merchants can edit the details of a single product (e.g. description, product images, etc.) and it also allows merchants the ability to manage publishing.
Shopify gave me opportunities to develop and refine not only my design skills, but key skills that make me a better collaborator and communicator. My biggest takeaways from my internship are: