March 4

Design Trends for WooCommerce Stores

The team of developers of 8Theme specializes in creation of premium WooCommerce themes. That is why we follow and use the latest design trends for WordPress templates that can be useful for WooCommerce based stores online. We want to share our design trends that we use in our premium WordPress templates offered for WooCommerce stores.

Design trends for WooCommerce templates in 2015:

White space and minimalism

Even on sites that are trying to get your attention and sell you their products, there is a place a lot of white space and minimalism. A large number of empty white space - the trend of 2013, it can be seen in a significant number of different kinds of topics, including WordPress themes for business. Because less is better for a "pure" design in 2015, so it is all also popular among premium WordPress themes and eCommerce sites.

Adaptive layout

Adaptive (responsive) design is a key trend in 2015 it is used in different types of sites and themes, including WordPress sites for e-commerce. Given that more and more people come to the site via tablets and smartphones, you must make sure that your shop has been available on a small screen, so as not to lose potential customers. To create an effective adaptive site, many designers are now using the markup with "floating" grid. Floating grid is ideal for creating markings easily converted for smaller screens and it remains comfortable to use.

Use of sliders

Since sliders images more developed, and as WordPress themes are moving towards ever greater width, large image slider on the home page - still a strong trend in 2015 and are used in a wide range of sites from a personal portfolio to online WooCommerce stores. Undoubtedly, great photos create a strong first impression, and are the main way to lure visitors to the product pages store, so it is understandable why sliders this year is one of the main trends in the design of the e-commerce.

Ajax online carts

Nobody likes to constantly update and refresh the page when you add or remove products from a shopping cart. With the introduction of carts at Ajax platform, control of your cart can be done without too much "jerking" of your browser. In addition, although this is not a new development in web design, WordPress themes for online stores, it is used more often due to the improvement of the functionality that it brings.

The relevance of the visual elements (parallax and video backgrounds)

The visual elements of the online stores have absorbed all the rest: the text and long descriptions do not want to read now. Buyer loves look at the pictures in videos, static elements should stay in the past. All our premium WooCommerce themes come with parallax effects.

Metro-style in design

A distinctive feature of this trend is minimalism and visualization by means of squares visualization (like in Windows 8). Categories in this simplified. Most of them do not "break" on the basket: they "poured out" on the site of geometric blocks –squares with content.

Responsive design on all platforms

Distribution of all kinds of mobile gadgets, smartphones, tablets and netbooks with different screen resolutions makes for a modern web designer a difficult task. But with highly-responsive WooCommerce themes that we offer you can easily make your site a universal place to visit online from any device. Your online shop must immediately adapt to the device from which a range is going to "dig deeper" buyer: images instantly adjust the screen and a miniature phone and a "half" of a “tablet format”. Our team of WordPress templates’ designers is happy to use a big picture in the background. It is always extremely strong impact on the viewer. In addition, you can get a bunch of premium plugins upgrading design of our premium themes even better.

Most of design trends of online WooCommerce stores will benefit for a user. Ajax carts simplify adding and removing products begin to take root thanks to some people who use them do interesting things like ShopDock. Large sliders images on the main pages are used for a long time and probably will be used more for a long time due to their compatibility with touch-screen devices. Using sliders for smaller product pages is a good idea that is beginning to take root and flourishing of the adaptive help for users of smartphones and tablets to get a good overview of the products from WooCommerce stores.