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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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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, now synthesised through NotebookLM and kept in a running Obsidian archive, so nothing learned once gets forgotten by the next project.

Skills

Stakeholder & user interviews

NotebookLM & Obsidian synthesis

Task completion & value scoring

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, now synthesised through NotebookLM and kept in a running Obsidian archive, so nothing learned once gets forgotten by the next project.

Skills

Stakeholder & user interviews

NotebookLM & Obsidian synthesis

Task completion & value scoring

002

Prototype

Paper sketches first, then something people can actually click through, fast. I still start on paper the way I did building SAP's anomaly-detection chart, but the build step now runs through Claude Code and Figma Make instead of a static prototyping tool, so a direction can go from sketch to something real the same day.

Skills

Paper & low-fidelity sketches

Claude Code & Figma Make

Co-creation workshops

002

Prototype

Paper sketches first, then something people can actually click through, fast. I still start on paper the way I did building SAP's anomaly-detection chart, but the build step now runs through Claude Code and Figma Make instead of a static prototyping tool, so a direction can go from sketch to something real the same day.

Skills

Paper & low-fidelity sketches

Claude Code & Figma Make

Co-creation workshops

003

Validate

Risky concepts get tested with real users before it ships, task-based and SUS-score measured twice a year, were a few of the methods applied. At SAP, in some AI use cases we needed to test quality of results running models on real data, that meant testing with beta customers on their own production data, not a lab simulation.

Skills

Task-based usability testing

SUS scoring & benchmarks

Beta testing on live data

003

Validate

Risky concepts get tested with real users before it ships, task-based and SUS-score measured twice a year, were a few of the methods applied. At SAP, in some AI use cases we needed to test quality of results running models on real data, that meant testing with beta customers on their own production data, not a lab simulation.

Skills

Task-based usability testing

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

A single design system, not a debate repeated in every review. At SAP, I built one from scratch across ten teams in seven cities, each decision written down with its reasoning, so teams who'd never met could still decide the same way.

Skills

Design systems & documentation

Cross-team consistency

DesignOps & handoff

005

Systemise

A single design system, not a debate repeated in every review. At SAP, I built one from scratch across ten teams in seven cities, each decision written down with its reasoning, so teams who'd never met could still decide the same way.

Skills

Design systems & documentation

Cross-team consistency

DesignOps & handoff

Nanda Dias | Staff Designer

© 2026

Nanda Dias | Staff Designer

15+

Years of Design Leadership

Across 10+ verticals, from a Rio design studio to global enterprises like SAP and Fresenius Medical Care.

8.5

Years Leading UX at SAP

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

4

Countries Called Home

Living in Rio, London, Berlin, and regular time with family in Oslo. Different cultures, city dynamics, and landscapes taught me to pay closer attention, a skill that makes me a better designer.

10+

Verticals Designed Across

From automotive and gaming to enterprise SaaS and sustainability. I design for the problem, not the sector, and that transfers faster than people expect.

30+

Designers Interviewed

Across hiring panels throughout my career, with deliberate attention to structured interviews and standardised scoring, the frameworks that actually reduce unconscious bias in hiring decisions.

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.

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

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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

Presentations & Articles

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Presentations & Articles