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Aug 30, 2024

What’s new at Instant: August 2024

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coen van hees - author photo
coen van hees - author photo

Coen van Hees

What’s new at Instant: August 2024

Welcome to Instant’s monthly wrap-up newsletter! At the end of each month, I’ll be sharing our latest product updates and free resources. This way, you can follow along on our journey!

This month's wrap-up includes:

  • August's most anticipated product updates

  • Featured Shopify PDP page building tutorial from Sam

  • Top 3 resources (Including free Figma templates!)

  • Instant show and tell: Featuring Spacegoods!

  • Agency webinar recap

Now, let’s dive in to see what went down at Instant in August!

Instant monthly wrap-up: August 2024

I hope you had a great summer! August was full of sunny weather and a lot of exciting updates at Instant (including the refresh of our popular Figma to Shopify plugin!). As always, we hope these updates will empower you to create an even better and more creative online storefront. 

Check it all out below👇

Featured tutorial

In this in-depth, 40-minute course, you'll learn everything you need to know to become an expert at designing custom Shopify product detail pages without code (or high costs!). 

Most anticipated product updates:

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  1. Color variant picker: Create custom color swatches in seconds.

  2. Improved visibility for click actions: Track where 'click actions' are applied. 

  3. New UI panels: The panels on the visual canvas are now transparent.

  4. Animations on scroll: Reveal elements when visitors scroll.

  5. App embeds: Enable to make your pages and sections load even faster! 

  6. Figma to Shopify with Instant 2.0: The #1, most popular Figma to Shopify plugin just got even better. 

Top 3 resources: 

  1. Free Figma File: eCommerce Health & Beauty UI Kit - Tsuki

    30+ Sections and 100+ Components, ready for any eCommerce landing page. Free to use, and easy to implement with the Figma to Shopify Plugin. 


  2. Guide: Best practices for optimizing landing pages.

    Learn how to turn more visitors into customers through strategic design, compelling content, and continuous testing. 


  3. Podcast: Winning the first-ever Most Creative Shopify Storefront award
    Discover how Jordan Sowers, founder of Post Familiar Wines, built an award-winning Shopify storefront. Learn tips to create a unique and creative eCommerce experience.

Instant show and tell:

spacegoods customer story

Using Instant Page Builder, Spacegoods customized its homepage with custom Shopify sections, including: a hero banner, review section, how-to-use section and more. Here's how they did it. 

Webinar

shopify agency webinar

Read our webinar recap to explore how Maison Commerce has transformed its Shopify design process, speeding up development and scaling globally with Instant.

Wrapping-up

That’s it for the month of August at Instant! But there are many exciting updates coming soon. Keep an eye on our Changelog for weekly updates. Until next month, happy building!

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