Modern multi-platform SDK for print-on-demand solution.

My role at Kite.ly

My main role was to prepare a completely revamped SDKs for iOS, Android and Web. This requirement came from a recent acquisition by Canon in order to introduce a modern, consistent and scalable toolkit for merchants on Shopify. Alongside with other designers in our team we came up with a simple library of platform-based components and find ways, with many iterations and testing, to create smooth workflows around creating merchandise.

In order to satisfy a “white-label” requirement for companies like Polaroid, Pic-Collage, LifeCake and FanJoy we kept the UI as native as possible with some modifications.

Challenges

I think the most challenging part was the edit modes for the specific products. Wall-art category was the most consuming at it requires to maintain multiple product customisation levels: size, frame type and colour finish, orientation. I had a lot of fun experimenting with different ideas and creating dynamic components in Sketch in order to create an easy way to ideate on different options.

iOS SDK

Here are some examples of the UI components for iOS SDK.

User flows for iOS

Web SDK

Web SDK was used in to main spaces: general web SDK fro creating merchandise and another designated for photo book creation. Both shared the same components with some exceptions.