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Libraries & Templates: Digital Design Made Fastr

December 4th, 2024 | 15 min. read

Libraries & Templates: Digital Design Made Fastr Blog Feature

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In every corner of the creative world, templates have long existed – and for good reason. They teach, guide, inspire, and accelerate the creative process. If your corner is the digital one, building and managing an ecommerce frontend, you're no stranger to these tools and templates... nor their limitations.

 

If only you had a dollar for every time you wished you could get that brilliantly beautiful design from your head to your screen and site – without any creative compromises or unsolicited adjustments – right? We get it...

 

It's exactly that thought – and frankly, necessity – that fuels Fastr Frontend: A powerhouse ecommerce solution that gives marketers, merchandisers, and designers the keys to unlock, explore, and claim sovereignty over a fundamental territory: your frontend. 

 

So, while templated design may sound like a step away from empowering full creative control, let us assure you that our recently-launched templates are anything but...

 

Design Templates, Fastr Style

Templates can certainly help with speed, but typical tools' out-of-the-box, rigid templates will dull your brand's sparkle, restrict you from building the elevated frontend that attracts an audience and captures conversions, and block you from stealing or even sharing your competitors' spotlight.

 

In other words, they'll take you to a place we call "template jail".

 

So how do these templates differ? How do they keep you out of the slammer and your frontend centre stage? 

 

No Holds Barred Creative Control 

Fastr Frontend's templates are entirely customizable. No locked or rigid elements, no preset editing options  – every pixel is yours to tweak as if it's a totally blank canvas...

 

Except that blank canvas is not imagined, it's built into Fastr Frontend. We call it the Experience Canvas and it's where ecommerce teams unlock true composability with familiar design tools and a designer-intuitive UI. 

 

Templates give you a design kickstart, a blank canvas gives you unlimited creative freedom, and having both is digital composition gold. Cryptic treasure? Lottery pipe dream? Nope. You can hit that jackpot with Fastr Frontend.

 

Boundless Integrations

Many ecommerce brands have a tech stack that resembles a dysfunctional team roster: Expensive players spending more time on the bench than on the pitch, refusing to play with some of their teammates, and simply not bringing home the wins. We are not rooting for that team... 

 

Fastr Frontend is the captain of consolidation, encapsulating the functionality of what would otherwise be a myriad of one-off solutions. It's the MVP of cohesion, integrating seamlessly with any ecommerce platform, CMS, analytics, and tool in your tech stack. 

 

It works like a champ behind the scenes to make your tech work together, work better, and it gives you the free agency to create digital content supercharged with your business data. Score!

 

Ditching Development Detours

Wondering where your devs come into this picture? They don't. And that's not just the short answer; it's the real one. 

 

Your non-technical teams can compose content in Fastr Frontend and immediately deploy these designs to your frontend through your platform or CMS – all without a line of code or a single email to, support ticket for, or meeting with developers.

 

Frontend design, customer journeys, product merchandising, and marketing? Fastr Frontend gives your creative teams full control of that so your devs can do, well, dev work.

 

Launching Libraries & Templates

Alright, now you get the hype, right? And the hype continues because this is just the beginning: Our team has pledged their time and expertise to continuously expand our libraries and exponentiate our template options. In the meantime, let's dig in to the templates included in the initial release and launched at our recent Design Lab...

 

ICONS

Hundreds of icons at your fingertips and ready to be used as buttons, bullet points, navigation indicators, CTAs, and more. Watch the video clip below to see them in action and to see how Fastr Frontend users easily access and use all of our new Libraries & Templates...

 

Over 600 icons in SVG format

Mobile & desktop friendly

Entirely editable (as they would be in Figma or Illustrator)

✔ Categories Include:

Components, Arrows, Business/Work, Cosmetic/Health, Creative Tool Kit, Food/Appliances, Furniture/Decor, Hotspots, Photo/Audio/Video, Retail/Ecommerce, Seasonal/Holidays, Transport/Location, Wardobe, & Miscellaneous Icons

...& more to come soon!

 

CAROUSEL TEMPLATES

Use these carousel templates to quickly create merchandising and marketing magic: organize products and content, show items based on specific criteria such as related products or bestsellers, and drive up your average order size and value metrics. Hit the play button below to see for yourself...

 

9 templates 

Mobile & desktop variants for each

Entirely flexible/editable

Integration Ease: Connect product data to populate/customize templates

✔ Templates Include:

Simple Product Tiles, Smooth Scroll Product Tiles, Product Categories, Smooth Scroll Categories, Asymmetrical/Groupings, Foreground/Background, Animated Images & Hotspots, Blog, & Video Carousels

...& more to come soon!

See also: Ultimate Carousel-Building Guide

 

PRODUCT LISTING PAGE TEMPLATES

Need a full page refresh? Sadly, Command+R won't do it, but these templates are the next best, easiest, fastest thing. We've set up a full page layout as well as a variety of page components templates for PLPs, but also category pages, landing pages, or anywhere that could use a glow-up. Watch this...

 

1 Full page layout + 9 individual components

Mobile & desktop variants for each

Entirely flexible/editable

Integration Ease: Connect product data to populate/customize templates

✔ Templates Include:

Banners, Interrupters, Categories, Simple Product Tiles, Products + Interrupter Combo, Products + Category Combo, Smooth Scroll Carousel, Banner Carousel Components

...& more to come soon!

See also: Fundamental Elements of an Elevated PLP

 

QUICKVIEW TEMPLATES

Looking for quick, easy, frictionless shopping? So are your customers. Leverage these quickview templates for shoppable imagery or on your Product Listing Pages to shorten the path to purchase. Take a look... 

 

7 templates 

Mobile & desktop variants for each

Entirely flexible/editable

Integration Ease: Connect product data to populate/customize templates

✔ Templates Include:

Product Description, Product Images, Product Variations, Subscription, Promotional, Product Bundling, & 2-Scene with Product Upsell

...& more to come soon!

★ See also: Streamlined Shopping: A Guide to Quickviews

 

QUIZ TEMPLATES

We can't count the number of times we've heard the dread of ecommerce quiz production/development requirements... nor the number of times we've happily explained how they are actually a dev-free breeze to make in Fastr Frontend. And now, we're providing templates to make the entire quiz-building process even easier. Check this out...

 

3 templates 

Mobile & desktop variants for each

Entirely flexible, editable, customizable

Integration Ease: Connect product data to populate/customize templates

✔ Templates Available:

Product Tiles Result, Email Capture, External Link Result 

... & more to come soon!

See also: The Power of Ecom Quizzes & How to Build Them

 

COUNTDOWN TIMER TEMPLATES

Want to stir up some hype? Drum up a deadline-driven sense of urgency? There's nothing like a countdown timer to mark the launch of a product, end of a sale, or whatever else could benefit from giving your shoppers a visual time cue. Don't delay, watch this... 

 

6 templates 

Light & dark modes for each

Mobile & desktop friendly

Entirely flexible, editable, customizable

✔ Templates Available:

Text-based, Numerical-only, Calendar Icons, Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds, & Combinations 

... & more to come soon!

★ See also: Elite Sportswear's Product Launch Countdown

 

The Full Story, The Full Experience

Watch our Design Lab workshop for a closer look at Fastr Frontend and its new Libraries & Templates. And if you're ready to experience unprecedented speed and control, submit your request for a free Fastr Frontend test drive below...