Brisa was founded in Iceland to be a web agency with a key differentiator: extreme simplicity. The idea was that we’d hear the customer’s needs, understand it, propose the best solution we could come up with and then… deliver. No back and forth or anything else in between. All the complexity of creating the final product was simply hidden from the client so that the whole process was “a breeze”.

 With a tiny team of 3 people, we managed to take on projects from respectable clients in Iceland such as the Ministry & Björk of Education, Lýsi and Kaffitár and even some international clients such as Unmind (UK) and CoPlus(DK). The trick was our awesome network of friends around the world that could help out with design, programming, copy and others.

 The studio was mostly active from 2014 to 2018, when I paused the entrepreneurship activities to start another adventure: <a href="/work/tskoli">re-create Tækniskólinn's Web Development Program</a>.

<ul>
 <li>A web studio which ran for 4 years</li>
 <li>Clients from Iceland and abroad</li>
 <li>Awesome network of collaborators</li>
 </ul>

Quick info

My first company, a web studio that operated for 4 years and created sites for clients in Iceland and abroad.

Brisa

ZO·ON is an Icelandic outdoor clothing brand which was looking to increase their online sales participation. I first advised on improvements on the design we had at hand bringing in my own designer for that task and making sure the mobile experience was as good as possible, a very important aspect of e-commerce.
 Then we devised a comfortable way their staff could update the website while leveraging a powerful sales platform. The result was a hybrid between Wordpress and Shopify: Wordpress was resourceful enough to allow managing different kinds of content while Shopify gave them all the tools they needed to manage their online store.
 I connected these systems making use of the Shopify Storefront API and their GraphQL interface, essentially transforming Shopify’s platform into a headless e-commerce system.
 Main technologies:
 <ul>
 <li>Wordpress</li>
 <li>Shopify + Storefront API</li>
 <li>GraphQL</li>
 </ul>

<ul>
 <li>Create an ellegant and polished experience</li>
 <li>Create a multinational store</li>
 <li>Integrate Wordpress and Shopify (Storefront API)</li>
 <li>Seamlessly plug in into <a href="https://www.coplus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CoPlus'</a> workflow to implement their design</li>
 </ul>

Main Challenges

<ul>
 <li>Multistore E-commerce Platform (Shopify integration + Wordpress)</li>
 <li>Website (custom theme)</li>
 </ul>

ZO•ON

Main Challenges

Backstory