Now that we are about to enter the new year 2014, it’s time to remember what happened to us back in 2013 and what we’ve achieved with this great year.

Modern online product designers feature realistic previews that are shown in real-time. Whether you add text or upload your own artwork it is reflected on a product just in a split second. While a flat preview might be sufficient for a printed products industry or stationary, promotional products like cups or custom uniforms might require a better outlook. That is where the 3D preview of a design might benefit much to the final look and feel of the personalized promotional product.

Having an online product configurator on a website is common for products that are open to customizable options, additional services, or qualities. The product configurator captures user preference and helps in conveying it to order details. If the order itself requires more than just shipping products to the address, accurate configuration information is important for the backend office of production. 

Going with an online product designer for your business is a serious step, especially for brick-and-mortar businesses that have already established themselves in local markets. Becoming a global company that accepts orders online is totally different as you may deal with another type of customer and new challenges. Yet, going online has a significant reward in increased revenue and orders coming from all over the world.

LiveArt’s HTML5 Online Design Studio offers a cutting-edge mobile experience on iPhone, Android, and Windows mobile platforms and uses most of the up to date web standards including SVG. To support the industry demand for high-quality output from online product designers, we have implemented SVG as the core technology of LiveArt HTML5.

If you already possess an eCommerce solution in the cloud-like Volusion, Squarespace, or 3dcart, it’s easy to integrate an online product designer as an option for specific products. LiveArt HTML5  now offers a special package to add a product decoration feature to specific products.

Starting an online design business is always a challenge for any company. Whether you are brick and mortar business or a startup with design ideas in mind, you are open to a multitude of solutions present on market for ecommerce platforms shipped with online product designer.

Regardless of the printing industry, having a catalog of pre-made templates helps customers nail down their idea and complete the purchase. Rather than starting from scratch with no design ideas users can quickly makeover ready business cards templates, for example, or pre-made t-shirt designs. The pre-designed items available for customization create an additional unique selling point boosting your overall sales and letting customers having more fun.

The online product customization software has been traditional in a sense of UI for over a decade now. The instruments might be different, going from old-school Javascript, then Flash and Silverlight, and, finally, Javascript again, albeit with more assistive technologies like JQuery and Bootstrap.

The advent of mobile devices powerful enough to compete with desktop PCs has changed everything in a way how common customer personalizes their product. The previous online personalization tools were mostly intended to work with desktop computers, which included a common single input device as a mouse (keyboards were never usable for customizing a t-shirt as a primary device). Using the above one could select a product from the catalog and add simple personalization of text and artwork.

One of the crucial things about online design software, is having an appropriate online designer output, which would minimize production efforts and streamline the ordering process. Ideally, the design file should be immediately compliant to be printed on a ready product. The other benefits normally include:

   - Less returns and refunds;

  - Less graphic designer input is required;

  - Increased general customer satisfaction with easy proofing;