My experience as a UX Design Intern designing for SAP
UX DESIGN/ INTERNSHIP
OVERVIEW
Working to implement and maintain consistency between different SAP Cloud solutions for Data Warehousing, Planning and Analytics.
Specializing in providing user research resources and other design tools to help various product teams meet their design goals.
In collaboration with developers and product managers, the main project I was focused on was implementing a feature to help users access support and help documentation more efficiently, as well as working to update existing designs to SAP’s new design system.
Additionally, I contributed to a repository of annotated components designed for keyboard navigation to optimize accessible design considerations for designers as I was involved in fostering awareness for A11Y, an accessible design initiative to colleagues.
I got the chance to design and put up a mural for my design team’s space at the SAP Canada office.
Working at SAP has helped me grow my independence and confidence as a designer immensely. As SAP is a large company, I would have to take initiative to reach out to different people in the organization if I needed something. I’ve also learned to advocate for my work and be able to speak up and respond to suggestions for my designs. While being able to take feedback is important, simply saying yes to everything isn’t the best practice either. I’m forever thankful to have such a supportive team and manager that created opportunities for me to be able to give presentations, build prototypes and work with different cross-functional teams.
In design school, I was always told to design in a way so that it would be accessible to everyone. To me this looked like using colours that met contrast ratio ratings and using larger font sizes for ease of visibility. While these still are important considerations, I’ve learned more about the best practices for making digital solutions more inclusive for users with disabilities through learning about The A11y Project, which my colleagues and I referred to in order to build a library of annotated components for developer and design teams here at SAP.
