03 / 03 2026
Companion — Order Tracking App
01 / The Problem
Shopify merchants can’t easily offer customers a native app experience — order tracking lives in email and a generic web page, not something that feels like part of the brand.
02 / The Approach
Designed a lightweight SwiftUI companion app that layers on top of an existing Shopify store via its API, focused on one job: real-time order status and push notifications, without trying to rebuild the whole storefront natively.
03 / Process
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Mapped the exact Shopify API endpoints needed before designing any screens
02
Kept the UI to three screens by design, to prove the “lightweight extension” thesis
04 / The Result
A working concept demonstrating how a merchant already happy on Shopify can add a native touchpoint without migrating off the platform.