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Nanda Dias

About

a glimpse of a journey

Strategic Designer | Discovery, Research & UX Leadership | Agentic UX

© 2026

Nanda Dias | Staff Designer

© 2026

Nanda Dias | Staff Designer

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001

Research

Design Thinking trained during my years at SAP, connected to the Potsdam Innovation Center. I still run stakeholder interviews, moderated and unmoderated testing, and workshops with customers and internal experts. More recently, I've started experimenting with Obsidian and NotebookLM to synthesise research and keep a running archive, so nothing learned once gets forgotten by the next project. For confidential material, I keep working notes local in Obsidian, and I don't feed client content into cloud AI tools as training feedback.

Skills

Stakeholder & user interviews

NotebookLM & Obsidian synthesis (confidential data kept local)

Workshop facilitation with users & SMEs

001

Research

Design Thinking trained during my years at SAP, connected to the Potsdam Innovation Center. I still run stakeholder interviews, moderated and unmoderated testing, and workshops with customers and internal experts. More recently, I've started experimenting with Obsidian and NotebookLM to synthesise research and keep a running archive, so nothing learned once gets forgotten by the next project. For confidential material, I keep working notes local in Obsidian, and I don't feed client content into cloud AI tools as training feedback.

Skills

Stakeholder & user interviews

NotebookLM & Obsidian synthesis (confidential data kept local)

Workshop facilitation with users & SMEs

002

Prototype

I value team whiteboard sketching sessions to facilitate shared understanding, a fast way to visualise and challenge ideas before we invest too much. For SAP RealSpend, working to a short deadline on ML solutions, we sketched ideas on paper, which helped us stay unattached to any of them and narrow to just three. We put more effort in only after learning the perceived value of each. This saved us a lot of time on the wrong ideas. Lately, Claude Code and Figma (via MCP or Make) are my day-to-day prototyping tools. Framer comes in for landing pages, testing desirability, like counting sign-ups for a service people aren't used to yet. AI-led design keeps evolving, so it's a space I keep upskilling in.

Skills

Paper & low-fidelity sketches

Claude Code & Figma

Co-creation workshops

002

Prototype

I value team whiteboard sketching sessions to facilitate shared understanding, a fast way to visualise and challenge ideas before we invest too much. For SAP RealSpend, working to a short deadline on ML solutions, we sketched ideas on paper, which helped us stay unattached to any of them and narrow to just three. We put more effort in only after learning the perceived value of each. This saved us a lot of time on the wrong ideas. Lately, Claude Code and Figma (via MCP or Make) are my day-to-day prototyping tools. Framer comes in for landing pages, testing desirability, like counting sign-ups for a service people aren't used to yet. AI-led design keeps evolving, so it's a space I keep upskilling in.

Skills

Paper & low-fidelity sketches

Claude Code & Figma

Co-creation workshops

003

Validate

I prioritise the riskiest concepts for real-user testing before launch, guided by experience and best practice. Perceived value, task completion, and SUS score, benchmarked twice a year, were three of my methods. In a few AI cases at SAP, model quality could only be judged on real data, so we tested directly with beta customers on their own production systems.

Skills

Perceived value & task completion

SUS scoring & benchmarks

Beta testing on live data

003

Validate

I prioritise the riskiest concepts for real-user testing before launch, guided by experience and best practice. Perceived value, task completion, and SUS score, benchmarked twice a year, were three of my methods. In a few AI cases at SAP, model quality could only be judged on real data, so we tested directly with beta customers on their own production systems.

Skills

Perceived value & task completion

SUS scoring & benchmarks

Beta testing on live data

004

Refine

Design keeps changing after the first version ships. I've redrawn a chart because a solid fill looked more certain than the data was, and moved a whole reporting flow in-app because testing said people wouldn't leave the tool to use it.

Skills

Iteration on real usage data

Before/after design fixes

Honest keep/change retros

004

Refine

Design keeps changing after the first version ships. I've redrawn a chart because a solid fill looked more certain than the data was, and moved a whole reporting flow in-app because testing said people wouldn't leave the tool to use it.

Skills

Iteration on real usage data

Before/after design fixes

Honest keep/change retros

005

Systemise

One design system, built from scratch at SAP across ten teams in seven cities. Every decision documented, so teams who'd never met could still decide the same way. Post-launch, I gatekept it too, reviewing new work against Fiori guidelines across the whole sustainability suite, and requiring a strong reason for any deviation.

Skills

Design systems & documentation

Cross-team consistency

DesignOps & handoff

005

Systemise

One design system, built from scratch at SAP across ten teams in seven cities. Every decision documented, so teams who'd never met could still decide the same way. Post-launch, I gatekept it too, reviewing new work against Fiori guidelines across the whole sustainability suite, and requiring a strong reason for any deviation.

Skills

Design systems & documentation

Cross-team consistency

DesignOps & handoff

Nanda Dias | Staff Designer

© 2026

Nanda Dias | Staff Designer

15+

Years of Design

From print to digital to today's agentic AI: three technology shifts that taught me systems thinking and emotional intelligence matter more than any single tool.

8.5

Years Leading UX at SAP

Leading UX strategy across sustainability and enterprise finance products, including AI-supported budget tools.

35+

End-to-End Flows Design-Gated

With SAP's central design team, I co-owned sign-off on each end-to-end flow and authored the SAP Product Standards documentation myself: what shipped, why, and which compromises to revisit later.

10+

Verticals Designed Across

From fashion marketing to app-controlled toy planes, to machine learning and sustainability at SAP and Fresenius Medical Care. I design for the problem, not the sector: investigation and validation beat assumed expertise every time.

50+

Research Sessions

Design Thinking workshop facilitation, qualitative user interviews, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) framing, moderated usability testing, and System Usability Scale (SUS) scoring.

4

Countries Called Home

Living in Rio, London, Berlin, and regular time with family in Oslo showed me how differently problems get seen and solved from place to place. Letting go of "knowing it all" is what turned that into curiosity, a skill that makes me a better designer.

Work Experience

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Career Break | Berlin | Oct 2025 - Present

Lead Product Designer | Fresenius Medical Care Data Solutions | Berlin, Mar 2025 - Sep 2025

Lead Product Designer | Sustainability Control Tower, SAP | Berlin, Aug 2022 - Feb 2025

Lead Product Designer | Sustainability Footprint Management, SAP | Berlin, Jun 2020 - Aug 2022

Senior UX Designer | Data Intelligence Platform, SAP | Berlin, Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

Senior UX Designer | RealSpend, SAP | Berlin, Aug 2016 - Dec 2019

Senior UX Designer | GameWheel SaaS | Berlin, Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

Senior UX Designer, Product & Brand Launch | TobyRich | Bremen, May 2012 - Dec 2014

Education & Early Career | London, Bremen, Rio de Janeiro

Work Experience

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Career Break | Berlin | Oct 2025 - Present

Lead Product Designer | Fresenius Medical Care Data Solutions | Berlin, Mar 2025 - Sep 2025

Lead Product Designer | Sustainability Control Tower, SAP | Berlin, Aug 2022 - Feb 2025

Lead Product Designer | Sustainability Footprint Management, SAP | Berlin, Jun 2020 - Aug 2022

Senior UX Designer | Data Intelligence Platform, SAP | Berlin, Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

Senior UX Designer | RealSpend, SAP | Berlin, Aug 2016 - Dec 2019

Senior UX Designer | GameWheel SaaS | Berlin, Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

Senior UX Designer, Product & Brand Launch | TobyRich | Bremen, May 2012 - Dec 2014

Education & Early Career | London, Bremen, Rio de Janeiro

Work Experience

Expand all

Career Break | Berlin | Oct 2025 - Present

Lead Product Designer | Fresenius Medical Care Data Solutions | Berlin, Mar 2025 - Sep 2025

Lead Product Designer | Sustainability Control Tower, SAP | Berlin, Aug 2022 - Feb 2025

Lead Product Designer | Sustainability Footprint Management, SAP | Berlin, Jun 2020 - Aug 2022

Senior UX Designer | Data Intelligence Platform, SAP | Berlin, Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

Senior UX Designer | RealSpend, SAP | Berlin, Aug 2016 - Dec 2019

Senior UX Designer | GameWheel SaaS | Berlin, Jan 2016 - Jul 2016

Senior UX Designer, Product & Brand Launch | TobyRich | Bremen, May 2012 - Dec 2014

Education & Early Career | London, Bremen, Rio de Janeiro

Presentations & Articles

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Presentations & Articles