SAP Design System Learning Series
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Intro
The SAP Design System Learning Series provides deep dive info sessions and hands-on jam sessions on all topics covered by the Design System. View upcoming events and past recordings below.
Be sure to sign up for the event group to receive updates and invitations for future sessions. For questions on the series, or requests for specific topics, please contact the SAP Design System Awareness team here.
Upcoming Events
View all upcoming events below. You can also register for the event group to receive updates on future events.
October 13, 2026
Getting Started with the SAP Web UI Make Kit in Figma Make
Join this hands-on session to learn how the SAP Web UI Make Kit enhances Figma Make for creating realistic SAP experiences with AI. Explore effective prompting, SAP design system integration, proven workflows, and practical exercises. Gain firsthand experience, understand common challenges, and leave with actionable techniques you can apply immediately.
October 20, 2026
User Research at SAP: Resources, Tools, and the UX Insights Hub
Learn how to conduct user research at SAP with confidence. Explore key resources, tools, and processes for compliant, effective research during Discovery. Discover the User Research Portal, guidance on participants and requirements, and how the UX Insights Hub streamlines workflows and sharing.
November 3, 2026
From Visual to Voice: Designing & Testing Components for Screen Readers
Discover how screen readers interact with SAP applications and learn to design inclusive, non-visual experiences. Explore live demonstrations, best practices for accessible Fiori components, guidance on annotating designs for screen reader behavior, and practical accessibility checks to improve handoffs and user experiences.
november 10, 2026
Set Up, Prompt, and Ship with the Figma MCP Server
This session is for SAP product teams interested in moving beyond copy-pasting design specs to a connected, agent-driven workflow. Learn how the Figma MCP server gives coding assistants direct access to design context, explore effective prompting techniques, and discover practical patterns for translating design intent into code with confidence.
November 23, 2026
SAP Web UI Make Kit: Follow-Up Q&A
This follow-up session is designed for participants already familiar with the SAP Web UI Make Kit who want to deepen their experience with Figma Make. Bring your questions, project examples, and challenges to discuss practical tips, best practices, and real-world use cases while learning from peers and expert guidance.
Past Recordings
Find all the recordings and slides from past Learning Sessions below, arranged by common topics.
Design Foundations
Build Your Figma Plugin with Claude Code
June 29, 2026 | Session length 59 min
In this hands-on session, discover how Figma plugin development comes to life through practical examples and live building. Learn how automation with Claude Code and design with Figma MCP fit together and follow the creation of a plugin from scratch to spark ideas for your own projects and creativity.
Instructors: Alina Peycheva, Siyana Dicheva, Janina Fichtner.
Iconography Jam Session
December 3, 2025 | Session length 57 min
In this recorded session, explore how to create crisp, scalable, and accessible SVG icons that look sharp everywhere. Learn best practices for contributing to a design system, avoid common pitfalls like blurriness, and discover updated guidelines to ensure consistency across modern icon sets and design workflows.
Instructors: Yoanna Dukova and Elina Dzhanavarova
Design Your Own Web Application with SAP Fiori for Web
Nov 18, 2025 | Session length 48 min
A hands-on session for designers and developers to explore designing and prototyping their own web applications using the latest SAP Fiori for Web. Learn practical techniques, apply modern UI patterns, and gain step-by-step guidance to bring ideas to life quickly and effectively in real projects.
Instructors: Veselina Petrova & Benjamin Braun
lllustrate Your Vision: Mastering the New Illustration Style & Creation Kit
Aug 05, 2025 | Session length 30 min
In this session, you will get a comprehensive demonstration of how to leverage the Illustrator Templates, Illustration Creation Kit, and detailed Guidelines to design visuals that perfectly fit your individual use cases. Be ready to produce high-quality compliant product illustrations that align with our brand's visual identity.
Instructors: Luisa Kohl and Simone Daiber
Introduction to the Digital Design System
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 53 min
This session offers a foundational overview of the Digital Design System, detailing its purpose, structure, and core components. Participants will gain insights into how the system unifies design elements, promotes consistency, and streamlines development processes across digital products.
Instructors: Daniel Dunmire
Effective Visual Design Strategies
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 1 hr
Elevate your design expertise with this session tailored for experienced product designers. We’ll revisit key principles of user-centered design and explore how to leverage contemporary UX laws to enhance your impact. This isn’t about going back to basics but sharpening your existing skills and staying on the cutting edge of UI/UX through smart, thoughtful application of the design system.
Instructors: Pascal Potvin, Andrew Smith
Web Specifications
Creating Design Specifications for Web Part 1: Interaction Design
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 53 min
Watch this hands-on session to improve your design specification writing skills. Discover how to use a practical template and Specification Creation Kit to capture essential details. Gain techniques to create clear, consistent, and comprehensive specifications for design system elements and strengthen your overall documentation approach.
Instructors: Veselina Petrova
Creating Design Specifications for Web Part 2: Visual Design
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 58 min
In this recorded session, learn how to create cross-technology visual specifications aligned with product standards. Explore key topics such as layout, responsiveness, metrics, typography, accessibility, colors, and theming, and gain practical guidance to support development teams working across Web Components, SAPUI5, and Fundamentals Library/NGX.
Instructors: Simone Daiber, Luiza Berte
Build Your Custom Digital Dashboard: Unlock Creativity with the SAP Web UI Kit
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 50 min
In this recorded hands-on session, learn how to create your own personalized dashboard using the SAP Web UI Kit. Discover how to design intuitive interfaces with common components and gain practical guidance to turn ideas into functional, user-friendly designs efficiently and with confidence.
Instructors: Janina Grimm, Siyana Dicheva
Mobile Specifications
Release Rollout: SAP Fiori for Android & iOS and Joule Mobile Client 25.8
Aug 22, 2025 | Session length 57 min
Explore the latest mobile features designed to boost enterprise productivity on the go. Get an overview of updates in the SAP BTP SDK for Android and iOS and the Joule mobile client 25.8, including improvements to core experiences and new tools supporting everyday work.
Instructors: Emil Voutta and the whole mobile team
Let’s Design an SAP Mobile App
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 56 min
Learn how to leverage the Mobile Design System Guidelines and Figma Design Kits to create compelling mobile experiences for your business users. Discover practical techniques, align with best practices, and design intuitive, scalable interfaces that enhance usability, consistency, and impact across modern enterprise apps and improve user satisfaction and productivity.
Instructors: Duke Ngo
AI & Joule
Joule on Figma
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 49 min
Discover in this hands-on workshop how to get AI-powered insights from the SAP Design System guidelines right inside your design files. Find out how you can ask contextual questions to a particular component you’re working with across the Web, iOS, and Android kits, or how to ask any question you need around the SAP Design System.
Instructors: Phil Miseldine
Joule Mobile: Designing a Digital Assistant Experience
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 41 min
See what Joule for Android and iOS offers and how improves SAP’s mobile experience. Learn how to get started with designing your own Joule Mobile experiences for your business domain.
Instructors: Max Escutia, Olga Martynchik
InnerSource
InnerSource: Announcing the Deprecation Process
July 6, 2026 | Session length 52 min
This recorded session introduced the new InnerSource deprecation process for UI components, explaining how component lifecycles will be managed more effectively. Watch to learn how deprecations are communicated, how to transition to successor components, and how the approach helps simplify, standardize, and strengthen the design system by improving consistency and reducing complexity.
Instructors: Jan Rüssel, James Edenstrom, and Stanislava Baltova
Boost Design Collaboration with InnerSource
June 23, 2025 | Session length 59 min
In this recorded session, learn how to make the most of the InnerSource process within the SAP Design System. Discover how to submit requests, contribute effectively, and understand the model’s foundations, supported by real examples showing how teams are already adopting InnerSource to collaborate, innovate, and drive shared design system improvements.
Instructors: Jan Ruessel and Kai Richter
InnerSource: What It Is and Why We Use It to Build the SAP Design System
June 25, 2025 | Session length 45 min
Discover why InnerSource is used as the collaboration model for the SAP Design System, enabling products and teams to contribute, share, and grow together. Learn how this approach drives transparency, reuse, and continuous innovation, helping build a stronger, more consistent design system that evolves through collective input and real-world application.
Instructors: Veselina Petrova, Jim Edenstrom
Design System Portal
Design System Portal Info & Experience Feedback
Nov 10, 2025 | Session length 20 min
In this recorded session, go behind the scenes of the SAP Design System Portal and the team driving its continuous evolution. Learn how UX and performance improvements are approached, and discover how you can contribute through structured feedback, helping shape future enhancements and overall user experience quality across the platform.
Instructor: Melinda Carr
From Vision to Reality: The Collaborative Journey Behind the SAP Design System Portal
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 28 min
Dive into how a small group of colleagues created the new SAP Design System Portal. Explore the beta version and upcoming rollout plans, aimed at transforming the portal into a one-stop shop that blends technology and creativity, empowering teams to design and build applications that deliver exceptional user experiences.
Instructors: Jean-Luc Terrée
A Practical How-To: Mastering the SAP Design System Portal as a Consumer
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 30 min
Discover how to master the SAP Design System Portal as a consumer. Learn to navigate the beta portal, access essential tools and resources, and apply component guidelines effectively to streamline your workflow and fully leverage the design system for efficient, consistent, and high-quality application development.
Instructors: Jean-Luc Terrée
Coffee Corner: Current and Upcoming Initiatives with the Design System
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 16 min
Learn about the latest developments in the Design System Portal and preview what’s coming next. Explore key initiatives such as migrating solution-specific guidelines, integrating analytics, refining version strategies, and enhancing the overall user experience to create a more powerful, consistent, and user-centered platform for design system consumers and contributors alike.
Instructors: Victoria Duong
Additional Topics
Mastering the UXC Scanner
September 23, 2026 | Session length 60 Min
In this session, explore the UXC Scanner, SAP’s internal tool for validating UX consistency requirements and supporting aligned user experiences across business applications. Learn how designers and developers identify compliance gaps early, streamline reviews, apply SAP UX standards, integrate the tool into workflows, and improve quality, consistency, and efficiency across teams.
Instructors: Ronghai Huang, Pallavika Nesargikar
Core Design Reporting
July 10, 2025 | Session length 1 hr
In this session, explore why design reporting matters and its role in shaping product experiences. Learn what’s tracked, who it serves, data sources, and purpose. Discover Design System reporting workflows, tools, and processes and how insights drive product usage and improve user satisfaction across products.
Instructors: Megan Candela, Brenda Whalen, and James Edenstrom
SAP Design System Services: Your Expert Advisor for Design Solutions
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 27 min
In this talk, we’ll show how SAP Design System Services helps you find the right answers – whether through inbox duty, design consultations, or other support – backed by real numbers from our work. Plus, we’ll share what’s next, including new tools like Joule to make finding solutions even easier.
Instructors: Denitsa Kusheva, Luiza Berte, Lyubomir Mateev
Designing For Performance: How Collaboration Drives a Great UX
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 15 min
User experience combines thoughtful design, clear flows, and aesthetics, but performance is key to making it truly effective. Learn how collaboration across teams, prioritizing critical content, and sequencing data updates improve loading times and Time to Interactive, helping create fast, responsive experiences that keep users engaged and satisfied.
Instructors: J Vivien Koch, Marcus Nitsche
