Is Hyvä the new frontier of Magento frontend?

Monsoon Consulting prides itself on being an industry leader, and experts in all things eCommerce. As part of this we are always looking out for new modules and themes that can enable us to provide better, more flexible, and unique experiences for our clients. And in doing this we often partner with or function as …

Sustainable and conscious businesses

New research reveals conscious consumerism will keep sustainability a top priority for businesses this year and beyond. There is a growing need for organisations to embed sustainability into their business, not only within operations but the entire humanistic perspective. Sustainability and Caring as a catalyst for change In this precise moment, new organisations are forming …

Moving On Up & Continued Expansion in 2021

Monsoon Consulting announces new Dublin HQ office and new “hybrid” working culture to promote employee well being. One of the most impactful and seismic shifts in our culture as a result of Covid-19 has been how organisations work and manage a new mobile workforce. Google Meets, Zoom and MS Teams are the new household names for …

Rapid Deployment Packages with Adobe

Rapid Deployment Packages help businesses get up and running in as little as four weeks with a fully responsive and transactional Magento Commerce website.  In this video talk, Laura Hodson, Head of Design & UX and Alastair Brodie, Commercial Director took part in a roundtable discussion with Adobe’s Matt Boland, Senior Manager, Global Partner Solutions, to discuss …

4 Major eCommerce trends for 2021, according to Adobe

This year Adobe, teamed up with Econsultancy to create a report titled “2021 Digital Trends Experience Index”. This report highlighted a number of interesting and important trends for eCommerce, and how 2020 has impacted its growth and trajectory. As eCommerce experts, and a Magento Commerce Specialised Partner, we examined the report and thought we would breakdown …

Why you should have a PWA in 2021

For the last few years, those of us in the eCommerce sphere have heard a lot about PWA’s and how they are the next big thing for eCommerce. Yet, for many of us, PWA’s have not seen the uptake that we expected. But in recent months a number of advancements point to a shift in …

2021: Ethics, Design and the Collective Industry

2021 is like coming into a new energy phase. It’s an awakening of what was working and not working in 2020, such as systems, ways of thinking or ways of how we want(ed) to show up as social and professional beings. The seed was planted and now we can start to embody it in a …

Monsoon Consulting Awarded Magento Commerce Specialized Partner Status

Monsoon Consulting is excited to announce that it has been awarded Magento Commerce Specialized Partner status as part of the Adobe Solution Partner Program. Monsoon Consulting is made up of a team of over 40 exceptional digital specialists who work in a uniquely collaborative way to deliver best in class B2B and B2C digital solutions …

Are you 3D Secure 2 ready?

3D Secure 2 is on the horizon, and if you are accepting payments inside the EEA then you need to ensure that you have implemented Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) before 31st December 2020 to be compliant.  You may recognise the name SCA, as these requirements were originally meant to come into effect back in September …

Dark Patterns: the unethical UX implementations

UX design is an area of design that advocates for its users and aims to create the most accessible, user-friendly solutions possible. As part of this, many decisions have to be made while balancing both user needs and business goals and requirements. Due to this, many decisions can be made that can provide quick business …