Join us for the next virtual Design Bites where we explore Design topics together in depth. Hosted by SAP Design Lead, Dan Watters.
About this Event
How do businesses innovate and create opportunities even while dealing with a pandemic? For most of us, this requires new ways of working together. Learn from SAP AppHaus design leaders Uwe Palm, Tina Tuan, and Sally Lawler Kennedy, a successful hybrid model of engagement for customer Design & Innovation projects.
Daniel Watters - UX Design Lead at SAP
Dan Watters is a UX Design Lead at SAP, Palo Alto. He currently leads UX designers and researchers across teams and lines of business to achieve design-led and human-centered results. Over the past decade, Dan has been at the forefront of UX Design at SAP, innovating in areas such as Design Thinking, Innovation, Mobile Apps, Data-driven Dashboards, and the SAP Fiori design system, concepts and patterns, receiving several patents for the display of relevant data in card-based user interfaces.
Uwe Palm - Head of SAP AppHaus
Uwe Palm is the Head of SAP AppHaus, Palo Alto. Uwe leads a global team of Design Thinking Coaches, Designers and Customer Engagement Managers helping customers bring SAP’s Business Technology Platform to life and make innovation real. The SAP AppHaus is a co-innovation space in which customers and SAP work collaboratively on projects by putting humans and their experiences first. Prior to this, Uwe worked in different roles at SAP; as a consultant, product manager and product expert for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Sally Lawler Kennedy - Senior Director of Innovation and Customer Experience at SAP AppHaus
Sally Lawler Kennedy is a Senior Director of Innovation and Customer Experience at SAP AppHaus, Palo Alto. As an Innovation Coach, Sally leads SAP customers out of their comfort zones into innovative design-led organizations. She has taught and led design thinking workshops for some of the largest global companies, in a variety of industries. Sally has 20+ years improving people's lives by creating delightful experiences that humanize design.
Tina Tuan - Senior Director of Customer Innovation at SAP AppHaus
Tina Tuan is a Senior Director of Customer Innovation at SAP AppHaus, Palo Alto. Tina is a Stanford-educated engineer and design thinker. She has served various product development and design management roles at SAP.
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Design Bites Meetup
"It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting" - Jerry Sternin.
If design-thinking is all the rage, why are your skills not getting any better? Has your ability to brainstorm improved? Are you now sketching your ideas, rather than writing them? We sum up the current situation as: too much process, too little craft.
Our stance is: design should be learned skills-first. As you get better at applying your skills and reflect on your experience, you will naturally develop a better understanding of the process as well. Think design-doing instead of design-thinking.
Now, we know just how overwhelming it can be to decide where to start. That's why we created Design Bites. Each session of d.bites take one skill and teaches it with rigor. See examples from real projects, try it out a minimum of three times and learn from others in a fun lighthearted way.
As you get better at one skill, you will find yourself getting better at other skills, too. Learning how to interview better will dramatically improve your understanding of your product, and your validation skills, too! Like any good gym instructor, we will push you to do more reps as we push the envelope on design-doing skills ourselves.
You do not need any previous knowledge of design-thinking to join this series. Just a healthy curiosity on design-thinking and a willingness to be nudged to action. We will not be covering the design process but will refer to it. If this is your first time, we suggest taking a look at a short video here to understand the design process.
New: We have a Facebook page to stay in touch and keep the conversation going in between meetups. Join us now!