Defined and executed on a long-term direction for design systems at Instacart–with the following highlights from 2024 to 2025:
Grew the design system team's size and impact
* Established team KPIs and success measures
* Expanded the size of the team by 3.5x
* Expanded the footprint of the design system's business coverage by 4x
Spearheaded Instacart's first ever design technologist practice
* Hired Instacart's first three design technologist roles
* Established the company's design technologist role definition and its core competencies
Dramatically increased component availability and usage within products
* Moved the percentage of coded components available on all platforms from 11% to 47%
* Increased the monthly average Figma component inserts by 197%
* Increased the percentage of Figma component inserts fully available in code from 54% to 76%
Streamlined support systems to increase efficiency
* Increased monthly average page views of team documentation by 223%
* Increased monthly average unique views of team documentation by 265%
* Decreased volume of Slack support messages by 7%
Improved overall internal sentiment of the design system
* Moved design overall sentiment by ~44 points in the first six months
* Increases in mobile engineering sentiment by ~4 points to achieve over 96% overall favorability