Visvapriya Sathiyam
User Experience Expert
SAP
Visvapriya Sathiyam is whizzing design into the hearts and minds of people at SAP through a global design education initiative called the Design Whizz Program. She has led the design and engineering of several industry products for SAP in mobile, analytics and cloud for small, medium and large enterprises. Her previous avatar as a software engineer comes in handy to connect design and engineering for crafting better user experiences. Her work is rooted in the belief that design is for everyone.
SPREAD THE (DESIGN) FIRE
Does this sound familiar to you in your organization? People often confuse design with how something looks—its visual appearance—not how it works. Design is often seen as something only design departments are responsible for. Yet if everyone in an organization is educated regarding design, they begin to understand that design plays an important role across every area, be it engineering, product management, quality control or sales. Visvapriya Sathiyam will discuss how you can rapidly whizz design sense into any organization in just one year. She’ll explore how companies can educate non-designers, who comprise the vast majority within an organization, and make design everyone’s responsibility within the company, while laying out the tools you’ll need to create educational programs to make your organization far more design-driven.
