How Radikal built a high-performance Shopify Theme
How team Radikal built a high-performance Shopify Theme (now available in the Shopify Theme Store)
Over the years, working with over 50 skincare & fashion brands, we’ve gathered insights into what makes a Shopify theme truly practicle. Many themes look impressive but struggle when brands need flexibility, performance, or customization. At Radikal, we set out to build more than a visually appealing theme. We created a solution that tackles the real, day-to-day challenges merchants face.
The result is a modular, high-performance Shopify theme designed to grow with your business. From managing expanding product lines and international markets to supporting advanced integrations and seamless workflows, it adapts as your brand evolves. Every feature, layout, and component reflects the lessons learned from successful brands, giving you a foundation that’s both beautiful and built to last.
Why we built our own Shopify theme
As a team of designers and developers, we’ve collaborated with several Shopify merchants across the skincare and fashion industries. Through these projects, we noticed recurring challenges:
- Many themes were visually appealing but lacked performance, or were fast but limited in flexibility.
- Merchants sought real flexibility without needing constant developer support.
- Customization options often felt either too complex or too restrictive.
- Key functionalities—such as quick add or shop-the-look—were not always included.
Our goal was to create a Shopify theme that balances speed, design freedom, and ease of use—a solution that supports merchants as they grow and evolve, without compromise.
Why the RAD Shopify theme stands out for fashion & beauty
Most Shopify themes force you to choose: beauty or performance. Flexibility or simplicity. We built RAD to remove that trade-off and give founders and e-commerce teams a theme that actually supports their growth goals.
At its core, RAD combines a signature three-column layout and fully modular sections so you can tell your brand story your way — without calling in a developer. Features like “Shop the Look” let you bundle and cross-sell products to increase average order value, while lightweight code and a modern UX keep your store fast and conversion-friendly.
And because design and sales go hand in hand, RAD includes built-in optimizations for the entire shopping journey:
- Quick buy, sticky cart, and slide-out cart to streamline checkout.
- Breadcrumbs, advanced filtering, and sticky headers to make navigation effortless.
- Enhanced search and smart product suggestions so customers find (and buy) more.
The result: a Shopify theme that’s not just visually distinctive but also engineered to convert — giving you an edge in today’s competitive e-commerce landscape.
From idea to Shopify theme store
Creating a theme that meets the needs of growing brands is the start; achieving approval in the Shopify Theme Store is where the bar is truly set. It complies with strict standards covering code quality, usability, performance, accessibility, and SEO.
Our in-house designers and developers treated the optimization process as a partnership. With this feedback , we refined RAD’s codebase, simplified its settings for merchants and tuned performance until it consistently hit their benchmarks.
The RAD Shopify theme is shaped by testing, merchant feedback and Shopify’s own best-practice guidelines. For founders and e-commerce teams, that translates into a product that’s reliable, fast and genuinely useful.
About Team Radikal
We’re Radikal, a creative and technical team passionate about building digital products that make a difference. Our focus is on combining userfriendly design, clean development.
By creating this Shopify theme, we didn’t just build another template—we built a foundation for merchants to grow. And this is just the beginning: we’re already working on updates and new features to keep pushing Shopify stores forward.
Get Started With Our Shopify Theme
Ready to upgrade your online store? Our Shopify theme is now available in the Shopify Theme Store. With its flexibility, speed, and SEO-friendly foundation, it’s built to help your business grow.
