EcoConnect: Empowering SAP Employees Through Sustainability
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Category: Sustainability
Role: UX Designer Client: Internal (SAP) Duration: 8 months Team: 1 Product Owner, 1 UX Designer (me), 2 Software Developers |
The Challenge
Despite the company's commitment to sustainability, employees lacked visibility into how their actions could contribute. Information was fragmented across different internal systems, making it difficult to engage with sustainability initiatives in a meaningful way. |
Goals
- Support the company's goal of carbon neutrality by 2030
- Increase employee awareness of corporate sustainability efforts
- Encourage action through education and accessible tools
- Employees globally, across departments and roles.
- Conducted employee interviews at an in-person event
- Discovered a strong interest in recycling and personal impact
- Found a major pain point: information overload and scattered content
- Geo-specific recycling support powered by ChatGPT
- Carbon footprint estimation via integration with SAP’s IT Equipment inventory
- Clear, bite-sized sustainability tips tailored to user location and role
- Native iOS app built with SwiftUI and SwiftData for future-ready compatibility
- Figma for design & prototyping
- ChatGPT API for contextual assistance
- SwiftUI and SwiftData for iOS development
- Improved employee engagement with SAP's sustainability resources
- Made sustainability actionable and personal
- Created a scalable design framework for future green initiatives