Design System Learning Series
SAP Design System Academy / Design System Learning Series
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.
May 21, 2026 - 4:00 PM (CET)
Prompt, generate, and iterate with Figma Make
In this session, you’ll explore the workflows, prompts, and patterns that help produce better results, covering practical prompt-writing techniques, ways to incorporate your design system, and early possibilities using npm packages and live data
Past Recordings
Find all the recordings and slides from past Learning Sessions below, arranged by common topics.
Design Foundations
Iconography Jam Session
December 3, 2025 | Session length 57 min
In this session, Yoanna Dukova and Elina Dzhanavarova walked the participants through creating crisp, scalable, and accessible SVG icons that look perfect everywhere. They showed official processes for contributing compliant icons to the SAP Design System step by step, gave insider tips to avoid common pitfalls like blurriness, and shared the latest guideline updates that can help improve consistency across current Horizon icon sets.
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 where Veselina Petrova and Benjamin Braun show designers and developers how to design and prototype their own web app using the latest SAP Fiori for Web.
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, Luisa Kohl will provide 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 read 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
Join us for an engaging, hands-on session focused on writing effective design specifications. We’ll guide you through using our practical template and our Specification Creation Kit to ensure you cover all the necessary details without missing any important part. Whether you’re new to this or simply looking to sharpen your skills, this session will help you learn how to create clear and comprehensive design specifications for your next design system element.
Instructors: Veselina Petrova
Creating Design Specifications for Web Part 2: Visual Design
Nov 4, 2024 | Session length 58 min
Whether you’re working with Web Components, SAPUI5, or Fundamentals Library/NGX, this session will equip you with the tools and basic knowledge to create cross-technology visual specifications that comply with our product standards and cater to our development teams’ needs. We will cover topics such as layout and structure, responsiveness/adaptiveness, metrics, typography, visual accessibility, colors and theming.
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
Join this hands-on session to create your own personalized dashboard using the SAP Web UI Kit. We’ll guide you through designing intuitive interfaces with common components, making it both practical and enjoyable to bring your ideas to life.
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
This session offers a closer look at the latest mobile features designed to boost enterprise productivity on the go. The SAP Fiori Mobile team will guide you through key updates in the SAP BTP SDK for Android and iOS and the Joule mobile client 25.8. These releases bring long-awaited improvements to the core mobile experience and new tools to support your daily 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.
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
Boost Design Collaboration with InnerSource
June 23, 2025 | Session length
Jan Ruessel kicked off the very first session of the 2025 SAP Design System Learning Series, joined by over 250 participants eager to learn how to make the most of the InnerSource process. He explained the foundations of the InnerSource model — including how to submit requests or contribute to the SAP Design System — and presented real examples of how teams are already starting to adopt it.
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
Learn why we are using InnerSource as the collaboration model so that all products build and grow the SAP Design System.
Instructors: Veselina Petrova, Jim Edenstrom
Design System Portal
Design System Portal Info & Experience Feedback
Nov 10, 2025 | Session length 20 min
This session takes you behind the scenes of the SAP Design System Portal and the team driving its continuous evolution. You’ll learn how the working team approaches UX and performance improvements and how you can contribute through structured feedback.
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 the story of how a small group of SAP colleagues created the new SAP Design System Portal. Get a preview of the beta version and our strategic rollout plans, all designed to bring us closer to our vision: making the SAP Design System Portal a one-stop-shop that blends technology and creativity, empowering everyone to create applications that users love.
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 the new beta Portal empowers consumers to fully leverage the SAP Design System’s capabilities. In this interactive session, we will walk you through navigating the Portal, accessing essential tools and resources, and utilizing component guidelines to streamline your application development process.
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 get a glimpse of what will be included in upcoming releases. Key initiatives include migrating solution area-specific guidelines, integrating analytics, managing version strategies, and continuously enhancing the overall user experience.
Instructors: Victorial Duong
Additional Topics
Core Design Reporting
July 10, 2025 | Session length 1 hr
In the recent Core Design Reporting webinar, Megan Candela, Brenda Whalen, and James Edenstrom explored why design reporting matters and how it plays a vital role in shaping impactful product experiences. The session covered the landscape of Core Design reporting, including a deep dive into what’s tracked, who the reporting serves, where the data comes from, and the purpose behind it all. We also shared an inside look at the Design System reporting workflow—highlighting the tools, platforms, forums, and overall process. A key takeaway from the discussion: design reporting is essential, and Core Design is central to driving product usage and user satisfaction.
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 involves tailored designs, useful flows, and aesthetics, but performance is crucial for “great UX.” Delays in loading frustrate users and disrupt the experience. Achieving optimal performance requires teamwork among PM, developers, and UX. We prioritize loading key elements and sequence data updates to ensure a swift "Time to Interactive" (TTI). Join our workshop to learn techniques for designing with performance in mind.
Instructors: J Vivien Koch, Marcus Nitsche
