Tech & Innovation

Tech & Innovation

How Instacart built a crowdsourced data labeling process (and how you can too!) Organizations that develop technologies rooted in information retrieval, machine learning, recommender systems, and natural language processing depend on labels for modeling and...

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What do you do? I’m a Senior Product Designer at Instacart working on the consumer experience team. Most recently I’ve been involved with the design of Instacart Pickup, a project that spanned multiple digital and...

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You’ve had a long career spanning startups, agencies, and big corporations — what are your learnings from each phase of it? I’ve been designing for a long time. I got my start in the dot-com...

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Exploring mobile product design with Ryan Scott Tandy Ryan Scott Tandy, our new Director of Product Design just joined to lead the team that’s designing the app millions of our customers use to browse and...

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A Q&A with Kevin Henrikson & JJ Zhuang, our VPs of Fulfillment Engineering Kevin Henrikson and JJ Zhuang go together like PB&J — they’re the engineering “odd couple” that leads Instacart’s fulfillment engineering organization. Before...

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TL;DR To preserve and share the state of a stream (e.g. for rotations, dialogs), we can host the stream in Android’s ViewModel by using .replay(1).autoConnect() to share the stream’s state and a Relay to share...

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A Q&A with Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge, Instacart’s Head of Research. We just welcomed Elizabeth Ferrall-Nunge to Instacart Design as our new Head of Research. Elizabeth comes to us from Twitter, where she led the company’s research...

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A Q&A with Instacart’s first VP of Algorithms We just welcomed Haixun Wang to Instacart as our first-ever Vice President of Algorithms and Distinguished Scientist. In his new role, Haixun will lead the team that...

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We’re excited to announce that seasoned design leader Jason James has joined Instacart as our VP of Design. Jason comes to us from Thumbtack, where he grew the design team six-fold. In his new role,...