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Solene

A launch system for premium commerce: editorial product storytelling and cinematic imagery on a headless storefront, with a performance budget applied to every asset.

Industry Launch System
Category
Premium ecommerce
Discipline
Ecommerce development
Demo
In development
Related service
Ecommerce Development
Fig. 04 — Solene interface, running on sample data

01

Overview

What Solene is

Solene is a Kramiva industry launch system demonstrating premium ecommerce for design-led direct-to-consumer brands. It explores editorial product storytelling, lookbook layouts, a headless storefront over a hosted commerce backend, and a media pipeline with per-asset byte budgets. It is a self-initiated build, not commissioned client work.

The problem
A design-led goods brand sells a considered product through a theme that makes it look like a commodity.
Intended users
Premium and design-led direct-to-consumer brands.
Status
Solene deploys to a public subdomain with a synthetic catalogue. No real brand, product, or photography is represented.

02

Product approach

What we decided, and what we cut.

01

Considered products need considered pages

A product justifying a considered purchase needs a page that explains material, making, and use — not a gallery, a price, and a buy button. Solene treats the product page as an editorial layout that happens to transact.

02

Beauty inside a budget

Premium commerce fails on weight: hero video, oversized imagery, and a stack of apps. Every asset here has a byte budget, and art direction happens inside it rather than being reconciled with it afterwards.

03

Deliberately left out

No countdown timers, no fake stock scarcity, no popup discount wheel, no auto-playing sound. Each is measurably effective at cheapening a brand that competes on taste.

03

Inside the build

The experience, and the engineering.

The main experience, step by step
  1. 01LandAn editorial entry point built around a story, not a grid of SKUs.
  2. 02ExploreLookbook layouts where products are placed in context and reachable from it.
  3. 03ConsiderA product page covering material, making, sizing, and care with real depth.
  4. 04DecideHonest delivery, returns, and provenance information before the cart, not after.
  5. 05BuyA short checkout on the commerce platform's proven rails.
Feature set
  • Editorial storytelling layouts composable by the merchandising team
  • Immersive lookbooks with products anchored in context
  • Product pages covering material, making, sizing, and care
  • Responsive media pipeline with per-asset byte budgets
  • Headless storefront over a hosted commerce backend
  • Accessible, low-friction checkout handoff
Architecture decisions
InterfaceNext.js with static product pages and streamed personalisation

The page is instant for everyone; only cart and availability are dynamic.

LogicCommerce backend as the source of truth

Payments, tax, and fraud stay where they are already solved, audited, and compliant.

DataStructured product content in the CMS, commerce data in the platform

Merchandisers edit story and layout without touching catalogue integrity.

IntelligenceSemantic search over materials and use cases

Customers search by intent — 'something for wet weather' — not by SKU taxonomy.

InfrastructureCDN-cached storefront with tag-based invalidation

A price change invalidates precisely the affected pages instead of the whole site.

Technology and integrations
  • Shopify Storefront API
  • Sanity
  • Cloudinary
  • Klaviyo

Measured results

Not measured yet.

Estimates presented as measurements are the most common lie on an agency website, and it is not one we are willing to tell.

04

Work with us

The service this maps to.

Ecommerce Development

Ecommerce websites where the storytelling, the imagery, and the checkout hold the same standard — at speeds a stacked-up theme cannot reach.

Explore ecommerce development

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