A very beautiful release this week:
Visual Refresh
Today, we're rolling out a new look to our site that brings more focus to you, your products and your shop.
Visually, we want the spotlight to shine on you. Our new look adds more space and clarity to the layouts, and brings the focus on products. Your images really stand out now!
Sell Tab - go straight to your Shops!
We are also introducing a new Sell tab to the top navigation. When Shop Owners visit Shapeways.com, we know that over 80% of the time they go directly to manage their shop. This new space is dedicated to simplify the selling experience and help Shop Owners run successful businesses on Shapeways. While many of the tools remain familiar, today you'll already find new
shop owner tutorials. If you're one of the many Shapeways Shop Owners, we hope you enjoy the improved access to these tools.
Image Cropping
In addition to the visual update, we're improving how we crop product images that are not the correct size in order to make photos and products look more polished and professional. Images that aren't the correct size often have white space around the edges, so we will now crop them to fit to the closest dimension. Also, being sure to never distort the image, images which are uploaded at a size smaller than the default size (625px by 425px) will not be stretched to fill. From what we have seen, the cropping helps to bring the subject into focus (your product!) and remove extra white space around the edges
Also, as a followup from last week, we added the designer's name next to the product title on every product page.
Let us know what you think!
Natalia