Hello, this is the Folksy community space, a jumping off point to the many places where our buyers and sellers spend time feeding back to us, reporting issues, talking and listening.
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Hello, The previous two posts in this set of 3 explaining the re-design work, have focused on the layout and how we’ve improved the navigation to make things easier to find. This post looks at the design intent and the focus on simplifying and delighting. Simplifying We believe in doing … Continue reading
Hello. Yesterday we did a walkthrough of key buyer pages and showed the new layout, design and logo. This is the second of three posts about the new design and I want to focus on the way in which we support browse, searching and ‘findability’ on Folksy so that more … Continue reading
Folksy is evolving. We’ve been working to improve the platform and the service in light of feedback we’ve had, testing we’ve done and our own desire to do better for you. The design work is designed to improve the buying experience and ultimately help designers and makers to sell their … Continue reading
This communication went out yesterday (Thurs 13th Oct 2011) by email to all makers and designers who have listed on Folksy in the last couple of years (unless you have unsubscribed from our emails). It outlines some of the changes we’re making for the re-launch in mid-November and how this … Continue reading
Hello, Facebook are changing the way that applications work on their platform. As of Saturday the 1st October the Folksy Facebook shop application we introduced last year will be withdrawn as it will not work with the new changes. Anyone trying to access the Folksy shop will see the link … Continue reading
As part of the Folksy site re-design we are also re-launching the Folksy blog with shiny new features, craft and design updates and news. Only a couple of weeks until we launch now so with that in mind I’m off to work on layouts, designs, logos and most importantly fresh … Continue reading
Hello, We want to say a bit about what we’ve been planning at Folksy and where we hope that planning will take us. Since 2008 Folksy has grown year-on-year to now have around 8000 active shops, over 300,000 visitors a month and around 8,000 orders of the wonderful things that … Continue reading
The Good News! We’ve seen record breaking traffic and sales over the past month, we’ve seen a 57% increase in visits and over 6.5 million page views in the last month compared to Sept – Oct. User sign ups in November were up 65% on Oct and items ordered were … Continue reading
Hello. I’m pleased to announce that a feature that we’ve been working on for the past few weeks has been launched on Folksy today – Shop Sections. As a guide to creating shop sections we’ve made a screencast for you watch below. It runs for about four minutes and shows the … Continue reading
The Folksy Team. From left to right: Andrew, James, Rob, Anne, Hilary, Sarah, Toni and Doug. Earlier this week we had a first for Folksy, when the whole team was actually in the same place at the same time! Usually, we all working from different ends of the country, often … Continue reading