Contributions
Visual and Graphic Design, UX Design, Prototyping, Accessibility Advocation
Tools
Figma, Jira
Team
Anna Chi, Developers, Product Managers
My internship at SAP's Analytics Cloud's Infrastructure Team.
I'm currently working on improving the usability of SAP Analytics Cloud, specifically within the File Repository and Catalog while advocating for accessible design.
Context
My projects have yet to be released. But I'm happy to go into more detail about them during a chat!
During my time at SAP, I've gotten a chance to work on multiple different projects of Analytic's Cloud collaborating with Product Managers and Developers. On the side, I'm actively working on promoting and educating colleagues on accessible design through contributing to a growing library of annotated components for keyboard navigation as well as hosting talks and workshops.
Reflection and Learnings
Cross-functional collaboration is hard but I'm getting the hang of it.
Working at SAP gave me the chance to work with Developers and Product Managers all around the world and own my own topics. My biggest learnings are definitely around collaboration and communication, gaining these skillsets has elevated me as a designer.
Learning 1: Be confident and advocate for your design decisions.
Although accepting feedback is critical, its also important to advocate for your own design decisions. When other stakeholders bring up a suggestion, think critically about it and ask for supporting data and evidence to avoid scope creep so you don't forget the core purpose of the feature. You don't have to say yes to everything.
Learning 2: Building trusts between Product Managers and Developers.
When working as a team on a feature, we're all trying to reach the same goal. Coming from different backgrounds and skillsets, its critical to understand each other's preferred working method in order to build trust and understanding. This makes it much easier to communicate with them, and receive buy-in.
Learning 3: Accessibility is so important.
A big part of my time at SAP is working on Accessibility topics, where I am actively contributing to a library of annotated components for keyboard navigation. This opportunity helped educate me on what A11Y is, and how we as designers can ensure our designs and products are accessible by all users.