By Dan Shilov, Senior Product Designer Each day, Instacart customers rely on getting their orders delivered to them promptly. Getting an order from a store to a house is no small feat. Behind the scenes, careful coordination and hand offs mark every step of the process. Throughout this journey we…

How the Instacart research team adapted to the unprecedented challenges of 2020. By Shreya Gupta, Research Manager At the beginning of each year, our research team takes time to reflect on the things we need to achieve, and what creates the most value for our customers and business. …

By: Stephanie Massucco After one full year into a pandemic that’s changed both the world at large and the world of work, there are many lessons to look back on. …

by Himani Amoli Shoppers are the backbone of Instacart’s business. Every day, we’re energized by being able to help them serve customers more effectively and support their learning and development to build a long-term relationship. In their offline workflow, they encounter back-to-back, real world variables. For instance, a grocery store…

By Vicky Gao, Senior Product Designer As a Design Org, we frequently host internal panels as a way to connect and learn from each other. …

By Kristin Wood-Page, Senior Content Designer II Since 2020, searches for “DEI” have nearly tripled. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are at the forefront of peoples’ minds, and all three are quickly becoming essential to the way many companies (and people!) work. While it can be difficult to effectively move from…

By Rachel de Jong, Senior Content Designer You might be thinking, “Hey, I’d like to give a conference talk… but I’ve never done it, and I’m not sure I can.” Yes? Okay, cool. This post is for you. This fall, I gave my first-ever talk at Button, the content design…

By Cody Reppert, Product Designer II 2020 hit us all differently. For me, the most immediate effect was on my career. At the beginning of the year I was working in my first job out of college as a designer, where I had just been promoted. Just as swiftly, though…

By Sandhya Talwalker, Product Design Manager As we slowly emerge from a global pandemic, it’s become increasingly clear that “going back to normal,” at least the way we knew it, is somewhat of a mirage. …