A brief talk on the future of Magento, Magento 2, and some predicted ecommerce trends for 2016. Held at Design Network North's "Future of web design" event on February 12th 2016. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at hello@peacockcarter.com

1. Magento 2:
The Future
of Ecommerce
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2. Orange!
Author of 7 books on web design
(4 on Magento)

3. What is
Magento?
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4. Ecommerce, from the ground up

5. Image: public domain
Magento: launched in 2008

6. Stable.

7. Extensible.

8. The best ecommerce platform
around (?)

9. Community & Enterprise

10. Where is
Magento?
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11. Market share
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12. Stats: blog.aheadworks.com/2015/05/ecommerce-platforms-popularity-may-2015-two-platforms-take-half/
Alexa top 1 million web sites
Magento Community
25.3%
Magento Enterprise
4.5%
29.8%

13. www.christianlouboutin.com

14. store.liverpoolfc.com

15. www.harveynichols.com

16. …& plenty of smaller retailers…

17. …across many, many sectors.

18. The future of
Magento…
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19. Magento 2
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20. New (default) design

24. Streamlined one page checkout

26. Hugely improved administration

28. Better reporting tools

30. For developers
Unit testing
More modular
PHP7

31. Ecommerce trends
for 2016
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32. Even more mobile sales
*Other smartphones are available.

33. Even more mobile sales…

34. Stats: emarketer.com, 2015. Retailer specific data.
Desktop traffic
55.7%
Mobile/tablet traffic
44.3%
Web traffic

35. Stats: emarketer.com, 2015. Retailer specific data.
Desktop traffic
75.1%
Mobile/tablet traffic
24.9%
Web sales

36. …& payment gateways catch up

38. More multichannel

39. *Other marketplaces are available.

40. Faster delivery

41. shutl.com

42. Smarter marketing

43. nosto.com

44. magemail.com

45. Localised payment gateways
e.g., Klarna (invoices), Sofort
(bank transfer)

46. More fruit!

49. And yes, Magento
can do all of this!
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50. Learned something?
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51. @magentone
Next event:
Magento
Mon, 15th February
6pm