Full-height slide-in customer account panel (similar UX to louisvuitton.com)

Store Design
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Hi everyone,

I’m working on a Shopify store and I’m trying to implement a customer account login experience that opens as a full-height panel sliding in from the right, instead of redirecting to /account/login or showing a small popover.

As a UX reference, I’m aiming for something similar to the account login interaction on louisvuitton.com, where:

  • Clicking the account icon opens a right-side panel

  • The panel covers most or all of the viewport height

  • The background page is dimmed and inactive

  • Login and account creation happen entirely inside the panel

Current setup:

  • Shopify customer accounts enabled

  • Account icon in the header

  • Theme already uses drawers/dialogs for cart and navigation

What I’ve tried so far:

  • Modifying the account dialog markup in the header

  • CSS overrides to force the dialog to full height / width

Issues I’m running into:

  • The account UI stays constrained to a small drawer

  • Forcing full-screen behavior causes header or dialog logic to break

My questions:

  1. Are Shopify’s native customer accounts intentionally limited in how much the UI can be customized?

  2. Is it possible to build a full-height slide-in account panel while still using Shopify’s customer account system?

  3. If not, what is the recommended approach from a theme-architecture perspective to achieve this type of UX?

I’m looking for a clean, upgrade-safe solution rather than heavy hacks, so any guidance from theme developers who’ve tackled this would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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There are “Legacy” accounts which use theme interface and there are new “Customer accounts”.
New accounts are not really configurable.

Legacy accounts can be customized to your liking, but this is not “Shopify’s native customer accounts intentionally limited” – it depends on your theme.
So you need to share the theme name, ideally, share a link to your store and a preview password if one is set, otherwise it’s impossible to answer your question #3.

Unless your theme is already “almost there”, this would be a complex theme modification and, as such would be difficult to upgrade.

Unless you implement entire logic inside “Custom liquid” section, which is quite possible, but not really nice to manage.

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Thanks for the explanation, that helps clarify things.

I’m currently using the Atelier theme (version 3.2.1), with new Shopify customer accounts enabled.

I understand now that new customer accounts are more limited and that achieving a full-height slide-in login panel would likely require either switching back to legacy accounts or doing heavier theme work.

Based on Atelier’s structure, would you say this type of account drawer is realistically achievable in a clean and upgrade-safe way, or would it require significant customisation?

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That would be significant, if at all possible.