Hi Society6, I'm Matt and I'm Product Director here at S6. This means that I'm responsible for the actual Society6 website. I work behind the scenes with a team of talented designers and developers to bring great new features to you and our customers.
A few months back we asked a lot of you what we should focus on next and we received a ton of great feedback. The loudest support was for a way for you to organize your work into more specific groupings.
Today we are very excited to announce the release of our new Collection feature, available now for all members.
Let's get started:
- All product pages now have a new 'Add To Collection' button which will allow you to create a new collection or add to an existing one.
- Add any products, from your shop or any other, to the collection of your choice. You can add all the same type product, or mix and match product types as you choose. The contents and theme are entirely up to you.
- Once three products have been added to a collection it will become public and visible in your http://society6.com/username/collection page.
- Check out the collection you created and click 'Edit Collection' to be able to delete or sort the order of products as you see fit.
- Share your collections through our built in social bar, or by dropping the link directly wherever you want.
Those are the basics, but as you'll discover there is a lot more you can do with collections - from how you curate and organize them, to how you share them and why.
Here are some of our favorite new collections from the last 12 hours:
http://society6.com/andyfairhurst/collection/superhero-kids
http://society6.com/rickcrane/collection/time-pieces
http://society6.com/rorywood/collection/type
We're very excited to get this feature out to the S6 community and see the types of collections you put together - from artists grouping their art to fans sharing the work of their favorite artists. This is just the first step for Collections with new ideas in the works.
Speak up in the comments below and let us know what you'd like to see or share your new collections with us. We hear the feedback we get from you and we've got more great features coming in 2015!
Comments
http://society6.com/sharonmau/collect...
http://society6.com/sharonmau/collection/s-g-w--r
Thank you! This is a really great feature.
I really like this new feature. Great assistence for customers and passionate curators out there! :) Thank you, dear sS6 Team!
http://society6.com/annabellarharbaou...
Would love to edit the collection name, reorder collections and images within collections. I feel the big gray box header space (within collections) could be used for another image, maybe the headers go above - less about the box, more about the images. Anyway, thanks for getting this done.
My first 2 collections:
http://society6.com/ninabryantstudio/...
http://society6.com/ninabryantstudio/...
I would like to see Society6 watermarks added to our product previews. Or if that's not possible, maybe disable right clicks so our work will be protected :)
* http://society6.com/auberginepurple/c...
* http://society6.com/auberginepurple/c...
* http://society6.com/auberginepurple/c...
* http://society6.com/auberginepurple/c...
I agree with @Nine Bryant Studio, one feature I would love to have is watermarks over our images (or some thing of that sort).
Question on Collections
I've been checking out the collections of the above artists! Great work guys! Some of the artists I already follow but under collections, it says +Follow (for the artist) instead of Following. Is it suppose to be like that?
http://society6.com/trevorplus/collection/funny
http://society6.com/trevorplus/collection/vintage
http://society6.com/pat71896/collecti...
http://society6.com/pat71896/collecti...
Question - I put in duplicates and want to remove them, how do I do that?
Pat (BTW Excellent Idea!)
http://society6.com/xiluembo/collecti...
http://society6.com/xchangestudio/col...
http://society6.com/xchangestudio/col...
http://society6.com/xchangestudio/col...
http://society6.com/xchangestudio/col...
Thanks, Pat
I've created collections too ;)
- Miyazaki's World : http://society6.com/jarvisglasses/collection/mzk
- The Walking Dead : http://society6.com/jarvisglasses/collection/twd
- Pocket Monsters : http://society6.com/jarvisglasses/collection/pkm
Jarvis
Everything is cool but Pinterest is not working....
http://society6.com/cafelab/collection
Thank you!!!
Please watch small collection of me.
Love & Peace ;)
http://society6.com/seventraps/collection
http://society6.com/harveywarwick/col...
http://society6.com/harveywarwick/collection/stars
http://society6.com/harveywarwick/col...
http://society6.com/harveywarwick/collection/sli
And more will come! For those who don't know, you can rearrange items within a collection by clicking on Edit Collection, then clicking on and dragging the individual pieces into the order you want.
http://society6.com/willwild/collection/nba-stars
http://society6.com/periwinklepeacoat...
My first collection :
http://society6.com/speakerine/collec...
http://society6.com/speakerine/collec...
http://society6.com/speakerine/collec...
http://society6.com/anvikgrey/collect...
http://society6.com/beautifulhomes/co...
http://society6.com/strawberringo/col...
http://society6.com/strawberringo/col...
Thank you!!!!
In fact, I hade made one. Every week I feature unknown Society6 artists on an entry blog on a certain art community. Collection feature makes it a lot easier to share those art prints:
http://society6.com/annguillen/collec...
http://society6.com/monikastrigel/col...
http://society6.com/monikastrigel/col...
http://society6.com/monikastrigel/col...
.... more coming soon!
13 are made http://society6.com/gunadesign/collection
http://society6.com/kiraseiler/collection/floral
http://society6.com/kiraseiler/collec...
http://society6.com/vectorink/collect...
http://society6.com/vectorink/collect...
http://society6.com/vectorink/collect...
http://society6.com/trektangles/collection/
Here's my holiday one. When I click on it, it goes to "default" under the view as. Is there a way to set which product you want it to default to?
This collection I wanted it to come up as the pillow for default.
http://society6.com/sylviacookphotogr...
Is there a way to edit the title of a folder without having delete and create it again?
Loving the collections anyway, here's a few of mine :D
http://society6.com/nikkonikko/collec...
http://society6.com/nikkonikko/collec...
http://society6.com/nikkonikko/collec...
http://society6.com/nikkonikko/collec...
http://society6.com/pat71896/collecti...
I Follow and Promote. I love the work done here.❣
Pat
I also vote for the option to edit the collection title.
Here's a few of my collections ...
http://society6.com/peteedmunds/collection/wales
http://society6.com/peteedmunds/colle...
http://society6.com/peteedmunds/colle...
I'm not sure if this question was addressed already but can we incorporate the promo link when we want to share a specific collection? Hope this make sense.
Has there ever been the thought of adding email notifications for new followers or sales? Also, I just bought a mug on here and liked the insert in the package that says to tag #society6 on instagram and twitter. I think it would be awesome if artists can put a custom hashtag to be put on those inserts.
http://society6.com/blairroberts/coll...
http://society6.com/blairroberts/coll...
This is my african safari collection
http://society6.com/medesignstudio/co...
Here's a token and shameless self-promotion of a collection I've put together.
http://society6.com/jayraine/collection/humanimals
This isn't as much an issue when the artist only has 2 pages. But for the artist that have 20+ pages having easy access to Collections would be greatly helpful as a way to quickly find specific types of work.
As a buyer I really encourage you to use this feature, particularly if you have a variety in the medium or style of work. Or if you simply have a lot of pieces (more than 5-10 pages).
There are times I want to quickly find a specific piece I've seen before (or check if the artist has a specific item), but doing so means wading through an unrealistic number of pages. Or I can't find my bookmark. Or my previous link isn't working. Or the search feature brings up far too many results to sort through, and none seem to be the item I'm trying to find.
Using the Collections feature as a means to categorize your work seems like a good way to give us customers a way to access items quickly and easily. The downside I've found to buying on S6 is a lack of search feature in individual stores and a lack of store categories.
I want to buy your stuff - take some time to make it easier. :)
For example, if you do both typography and painting make a Collection for each so we can quickly browse.
Other options based on my own shopping experience:
- divide abstract work from realistic work,
- categorize graphics/patterns intended for products separate from drawings intended as wall art,
- identify photography, watercolor and acrylic painting individually,
- list portraits separate from graphic design.
Hope that suggestion is helpful.
I'm not a valid referer apparently...
Some things that typically help fix this issue are:
-clearing your cache
-updating your Flash
-switching browsers.
It didn't work but I sent him a screen shot and am waiting to see what happens now.
Somebody make a t shirt saying: "Not A Valid Referer"....unbelievable!
The white add to collection box...you can...what the hell is this?
An FAQ spot for this would be really helpful.
https://society6.com/charlesdrawin/co...
My paintings collection: https://society6.com/theivorytree/col...
My photography collection: https://society6.com/theivorytree/col...
am i missing something here or do i have to go through every single product page - i.e hundreds or thousands of pages potentially - and individually click through every product to add it to a collection??!! surely there is a better way to do this? !! clarity would be greatly appreciated - im getting absolutely nowhere with this feature...
a suggestion:
create a collection. have an 'add to collection' button within that, that directs through to your 'manage posts', where you could have a check box beside each item/design to add to varying collections. it means creating collections first, that populate a list somewhere in manage posts somewhere, that can then be ticked. it would be SOooo much easier to be able to add a particular design in full (i.e all it's products) to a collection, and then within the collection be able to opt out particular pages.
thanks, Eimear/crookedrobin
This needs to be fixed immediately!
Do you have a shared Trello or place to log bugs or feature requests? Society6 desperately needs a UI/UX designer and some engineers to fix the immense number of problems with the site. I'll be migrating my business off of here as soon as our Shopify page is up as we're really disappointed with the inability to customize what appears in our store, what products are featured, the order of our listings, the ability to make collections, etc. I'd advise improving your shop owners' experience soon as there are plenty of better competing platforms available.
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