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James Harrison and Tyrell Bain took the stage at FITC's #WebUnleashed to discuss how we’re using modern tools to bridge the gaps between design and development at LD! 🧩 Our headless #designsystem powers our Helios platform, acting as a single source of truth between design and code. Design decisions are powered by a tokens structure that allows for single components to be themed endlessly for different brands and contexts. Those tokens feed into an automated pipeline which means that designers can make visual changes within their design software, and push those changes right onto our front end. By standardizing the language and documentation of #components in design, we’re making handoff more clear, and more consistent. We’re now using Figma's dev mode to provide #token documentation, and to directly connect components in design software with their coded counterparts. Finally, we’ve adjusted the handoff process for features or full experiences to deliver the right information at the right time, giving developers a blueprint to build up complex experiences instead of trying to match a picture, or dig through a complex flow. All of the work we’ve done to improve the quality and efficiency of our products really boils down to finding better ways to communicate clearly, and making sure that we’re moving forward speaking a common language. 🤝

Unlocking the Power of ML Experimentation: Introducing HRE EXPT 🚀 At Loblaw Digital, we're constantly striving to deliver the most relevant and personalized experiences for our customers. But how do we ensure our recommendation models are always performing at their peak? Enter HRE EXPT, our innovative in-house A/B testing tool designed to supercharge our #machinelearning capabilities within the Helios Recommendation Engine. In our latest blog post, Samara Xiang, Yuhan Qin, Mefta Sadat, JC Seok, and Alex Yip dive deep into: 🧠 The challenges of traditional A/B testing in recommendation systems 🧪 How EXPT streamlines experimentation, enabling rapid iteration and optimization 📐 The technical architecture behind EXPT's seamless integration and real-time monitoring Discover how we're leveraging #ABtesting to unlock a new level of precision and personalization in our recommendations: https://lnkd.in/grbjbSzM

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Say hello to the new Joe Fresh app. 👋 The team at Joe Fresh reached a major milestone recently, rolling out their brand new app to 100% of users in Q3. The team has overhauled the tech behind the scenes to significantly enhance the digital experience. Here’s what’s new with Joe Fresh 3.0: 🚀 Powered by Helios: re-built from the ground-up with our in-house Helios engine for improved performance and reliability 🎀 SDUI components: modern and customizable UX elements to support e-commerce campaigns big and small 📱 Mobile-first design: optimized for mobile with enhanced navigation, search and accessibility These upgrades will enable the Joe Fresh team to easily scale campaigns based on evolving e-commerce needs and customer demand, all while maintaining the experience and stability that our mobile users expect from the app. These updates come just in time to shop our newest collab with Jillian Harris! 🌷

Had a fantastic time discussing Loblaw Digital's Helios Recommendation Platform at Astro 2024. This platform powers recommendations at scale on apps such as PC Express, PC Optimum, Joe Fresh and Shoppers Drug Mart providing Canadians a highly personalized shopping experience.

FITC was one of the first conferences I attended when I started my dev journey, so stepping up as a speaker for the first time was a surreal experience! I was joined by James Harrison to talk about designer and developer collaboration, which is an important relationship on any team, but especially on a design systems team. The room was packed, and I loved seeing how many people were into the talk! We dove into ways to bridge the gap between design and development by using things like common language and automation, leveraging all the latest Figma features (dev mode and code connect) to make the process smoother and more fun. Huge thanks to everyone who came out and to FITC & Loblaw Digital for the chance to share.

Huge thanks to FITC for inviting Tyrell Bain and myself to talk about the work we're doing at Loblaw Digital around designer/developer collaboration, and our Design System. Thanks to all who came out-- I can't believe how many people turned up to listen-- and to everyone who asked us great questions!

Astro 2024: The cosmic event of the year 🚀🌌   Our first-ever Astro Summit officially launched last week, and what an incredible mission it was! 🧑🚀 Attendees explored the fascinating world of data at Loblaw Digital. From data engineering fundamentals to the far reaches of digital analytics and experimentation, the summit was a whirlwind tour through the most exciting frontiers of our data ecosystem. 🪐💫 We dove deep into: 🧠 Business Intelligence: Uncovering hidden insights and making data-driven decisions. ⚙️ ML Platform: Exploring the power and potential of machine learning. 🧪 Experimentation: Testing, iterating, and innovating in the data-driven age. 🎯 Helios Recommendation Engine: Witnessing the future of personalization. 📊 Digital Analytics: Utilizing behavioural data to build customer experiences. 🏗️ Data Engineering: Building scalable and reliable data infrastructure to empower data-driven culture. A huge thank you to our internal speakers and incredible guests Google and Shakudo who shared their expertise, insights, and passion with us. 👽 Until next year!! 🖖 Charumitra P. Matthew J. Dudman Harmanjit Singh Anirudh Vashishth Colin Barber Michelle Qi

#Data #Engineering (and beyond!) summit at Loblaw Digital - great success!!! Big thanks to the team at LD for hosting the successful [and inaugural] 'Cosmos Summit'! With a clear vision of 'self service and low latency access to high fidelity data', Harmanjit Singh and his team crafted a summit providing insights on everything from our current state and data as a service through to BI, experimentation, analytics, machine learning and our very own recommendation engine! The learning and engagement won't stop here - our team of experts believes that our opportunity to deliver meaningful business and customer benefits are unique and extensive - interested in joining the team, check out these roles! https://lnkd.in/gRH-YQQx #hiring #dataengineering #ecommerce

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