UXPowerUP

Be The Difference

SAP Design & User Experience’s flagship program, UXPowerUP, is an immersive learning
experience designed to shape future design leaders and prepare them for an AI-First world. The content is a masterful balance of design, business and humanities with doing at it core. Become the best enterprise designer you can be and a role model for others at SAP.

PROGRAM BENEFITS

Deepen and broaden your horizon through multi-dimensional experiences
Become a powerful voice in the product development process
Enhance your customer mindset by working on a real Customer UX Challenge
Develop skills for an AI-first future
Create lifelong friendships and invaluable networks across products lines

PROGRAM CURRICULUM

EXPERT

SESSIONS

CREATING A DESIGN PULL

If design systems are the floor for UX excellence, what does the ceiling look like ? Learn how Alex Swain found opportunity where no one else saw one and thoughtfully pushed past design systems to create experiences that received market acclaim and created their own pull with customers.

NEED FINDING

Customer requirements are important but customer requirements are not customer needs. Dive into the art and science of going beyond what the customer is saying to what they really want with Tillman Swinke and the Fiori Makers Team.

PRODUCT THINKING

How do designers contribute more strategically? Pamela Bailey shows you how to think deeply about a problem space and have more strategic conversations with your cross functional partners by leveraging the power of the Product Design Brief.

THE UX FILES: UNCOVERING THE UNEXPLAINED IN USER BEHAVIOR

With the acquisition of WalkMe, design teams are about to get direct access to user behavioral data. Eric Mahlstedt and Charles Mitchell show how to triangulate using this and other “UX files” to derive user insights that can shape your products.

WINNING WITH UX

UX is only valuable to the business if it helps generate revenue or reduce costs. TJ Keitt, Lucy Obus and Andrew Hogan walk through an approach for tying UX to business goals, ensuring that business leaders understand how UX will contribute to the bottom line.

NEGOTIATION & PERSUASION

Gaining influence with product managers and engineers is a process of persuasion and negotiation on a foundation of persistence & tenacity. Learn how to do it well with Sophia Levens.

DESIGN & STORYTELLING

How do you tell stories that convince and persuade? Jennie Moreau and David Crabb break storytelling down, coach you through the inner work you need to be a good storyteller and put you through your paces to learn and practice storytelling for situations and different audiences.

HACKING AI WITH HEART INTELLIGENCE

Social media hacked our attention. AI is on track to hack our emotions. What can we do about it? Nipun Mehta reveals ancient wisdom and cutting-edge technology that lets us take control back and restore balance to our lives.

ARTFUL DESIGN & AI

There is talk of a AI enabling the 1-person $billion company. What is missing in this conversation is the philosophy of making. Why do we make? How should tools make us feel? Ge Wang talks about AI, Artful Design and the pursuit of the sublime.

KNOW YOUR DISC

Group dynamics decide group greatness. DiSC is a simple, powerful tool to help you understand yourself better. With new and improved tools to help understand group dynamics use DiSC to get a deeper insight into yourself and how to get the best from your team.

THE EMBRACE STORY

Jane Chen has taken the path less traveled. She took a project that her team worked on in Stanford and make it her life’s mission: to save babies. The journey she took in the process push her to her very limits and left her transformed. Learn what it means to be forged by life.

7 Principles for Building Better Cities

Thinking at a city scale, architect Peter Calthorpe is the apex of what a designer thinking in systems is like. Learn from Peter what America can do to address its housing crisis but also the rightful place of design in the hierarchy of professions.

The Pegasus Project

Completely self-taught, sculptor Adrian Landon built a mechanical Pegasus for Burning Man 2019 titled Wing of Glory, eventually adding fire. This was the culmination of years of trial and error, starting with a love for horses and the “epic movement”: the gallop. Adrian tells his story.

THOUGHT

LEADERSHIP

HIGHLIGHTS

CUSTOMER PROBLEM

Work closely with real end-users from SAP’s customers to take on a UX Challenge that our customers are struggling with

PITCH SOLUTION

Pitch realistic hi-fidelity clickable prototypes to customers and help them build a case to support development within their company

DESIGN THINKING

Solve problems creatively and deliver user-centered solutions