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Article List – UI Design

Updated: December 14, 2011

On these pages, we offer a complete list of articles irrespective of the section they are located in. We list the articles by topics; articles may be assigned to several topics.

User Interface Guidelines

Designing with the Mind in Mind (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Human Performance at the Computer – Part 4: On the Way to Performance-Oriented UI Guidelines (Community, Design Tidbits) • Human Performance at the Computer – Part 4: Towards Performance-Oriented UI Guidelines (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Performance-Oriented Design and Guidelines (Editions, Edition 11) • Performance-Oriented Design and Guidelines (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
User Interface Guidelines – An Introduction (Resources, UI Guidelines)

Advanced User Interfaces, Future Trends

Announcing a Project – Understanding the Role of Emotion in eLearning (Community, Stories)
From GUIs to Narrative Interfaces – From Point-and-Click to Computers Telling Stories (Community, Editorials)
Future Scope – Tangible Information (Community, Stories)
Future Scope – Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration with Intelligent Agents (Community, Stories)
Future Scope – A Networked World (Community, Stories)
Future Scope – The Post-PC Era (Community, Stories)
iKitchen (Community, Stories)
Innovative Interfaces Between Man and Machine – Software With Extra Likeability (Editions, Edition 8)
Location Based Applications (Community, Stories)
Narrative User Interfaces (Community, Design Tidbits)

Design, UI Design, Application Design

A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part I • A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
A Whole New Mind (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Adding Value to Your Interface by Using Simple Math and Matching (Community, Design Tidbits)
Addressing a "Design Issue:" Start-Up Time • Addressing a "Design Issue:" Start-Up Time (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
A Proposal for Playful Interactive Persuasion: The "Employees' Commute Calculator" (ECC) – Part 1: The Easy ECC (E2C2) • Part 1 (Editions, Highlight Topic 3)
A Proposal ... (ECC) – Part 2: Ideas for a More Advanced Version (Community, Design Tidbits) • Part 2 (Editions, Highlight Topic 3)
Bridging the Gap – Part I: Introduction (Community, Design Tidbits)
Bridging the Gap – Part II: Mapping Approaches (Community, Design Tidbits)
Bridging the Gap – Part III: Structural Approaches (Community, Design Tidbits)
Bringing Design to Software (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Design is the Solution – From Visual Clarity to Clarity in the Mind (Editions, Edition 11)
Design Research – Methods and Perspectives (Book review; Community, Books & People) • Design Research – Methods and Perspectives (2) (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing the User Interface (5th Ed.) (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing the User Interface (4th Ed.) (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing with the Mind in Mind (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Digital Ground (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Finding Common Ground... (Community, Editorials)
Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces (Community, Design Tidbits)
GUI Bloopers (Book review; Community, Books & People)
GUI Bloopers 2.0 (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Have You Ever Heard of Performance-Oriented (UI) Design? (Community, Editorials) • Have You Ever Heard of Performance-Oriented (UI) Design? (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Introducing Grand Design to the Digital Domain (Editions, Edition 0)
Leonardo's Laptop (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Participatory IT Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Performance – Merely A Technical Problem? (Community, Editorials)
Press On – Principles of Interaction Programming (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Refreshing Three HCI Laws: Fitts' Law, Hick's Law, and the Power Law of Practice (Community, Design Tidbits)
Selecting Objects By Attributes Part I • Selecting Objects By Attributes II (Community, Design Tidbits)
Sketching User Experiences (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Speeding UI Design Forward (Editions, Edition 0)
Stumbling Blocks for Good Application Design (Community, Editorials)
Technology as Experience (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Construction Cycle – Another Way to "Organize" the Design Process (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Design of Everyday Things (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Dilemma of Good and Bad Examples (Community, Editorials)
The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Software Works the Way I Think: Beyond Point and Click (Community, Design Tidbits)
Thoughtful Interaction Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Usability Levels – Three Ways to Care for Usability (Community, Editorials)
User Interface Controls and Interaction Techniques of Horror (Community, Design Tidbits)
Visual Thinking: For Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 1 (Community, Design Tidbits) • Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 1 (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 2 (Community, Design Tidbits) • Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 2 (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 3 (Community, Design Tidbits) • Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 3 (Editions, Highlight Topic 2)
What is an Application Design)? (Community, Editorials)
What Matters Most? (Community, Editorials)
Windows and Mirrors (Book review; Community, Books & People)

User Interface Patterns

Introduction to User Interface Patterns at SAP (Community, Design Tidbits)
Software Design with User Interface Patterns: Centered on the User (Community, Stories)
The Promise of Using UI Patterns For Large Software Packages Revisited (Community, Stories)
User Interface Patterns – Components for User Interfaces (Editions, Edition 8)

Hierarchies

Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques I • Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques II (Community, Design Tidbits)
Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Part I: Basics • Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Part II: Presentation (Community, Design Tidbits)
Hierarchies – Categories vs. Vectors (Community, Design Tidbits)

Simplification

Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users (Community, Design Tidbits)
Don't Let Your Interface Lie (Community, Design Tidbits)
Don't Let Users Suffer from System Weaknesses (Community, Design Tidbits)
Error Prevention Comes First (Community, Design Tidbits)
Reducing Complexity (Community, Design Tidbits)
What Does "Simple" Mean? (Community, Design Tidbits)

Selection

Did You Make Your Selection? – Part I • Part II • Part III • Part IV (Community, Design Tidbits)
Selecting Objects By Attributes Part I • Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)

Screen Design

Screen Layout – Part I: General Considerations • Part II: Layout Hierarchy • Part III: Examples (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Art of Hiding – Part I • Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)

User Productivity

Creating the SAP Product Language (Editions, Edition 8)
Leading Article: Matthias Vering on Usability and User Productivity – More Than Just a Pretty Interface (Editions, Edition 8)
Overview Article: User Productivity Worldwide – Branding, Design, Accessibility (Editions, Edition 8)
Reducing TCO with Increased User Productivity (Editions, Edition 8)
SAP Accessibility Competence Center – Accessibility for Everyone (Editions, Edition 8)
The Usability Engineering Center at SAP – User-Friendly Software Is Not a Matter of Chance (Editions, Edition 8)
User Productivity at SAP Labs (Editions, Edition 8)

Web, Web Design (General)

Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part I • Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
From Dropdown Listboxes to Comboboxes (Community, Design Tidbits)
List Box Tweaks (Part II) (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Web – A Short Introduction (Community, Design Tidbits)
Web Bloopers (Book review; Community, Books & People)

Web Application Design

An Introduction to Designing User Interface Controls at SAP (Community, Design Tidbits)
Making the Web Work (Book review; Community, Books & People)

Projects

Announcing a Project – Understanding the Role of Emotion in eLearning (Community, Stories)
Gesture Navigation in Contextual Menus (Community, Stories)
iKitchen (Community, Stories)
Knowledge and Innovation in Administrative Areas – Part I • Part II (Community, Stories)
Location Based Applications (Community, Stories)
Multimodal Warehouse Application (Community, Stories) • Multimodal Warehouse Application (Editions, Edition 10)
Rapid User-Centered Design for Mobile Enterprise Applications (Community, Stories)
User Interface Design in APO (updated 07/16/2003; Community, Stories)
Working as a Designer in a Global Team (Community, Stories) • Working as a Designer in a Global Team (Editions, Edition 10)
SAP Helps Apple Keep iPhone Away from Bad Guys – A User Experience Perspective (Community, Stories) • SAP Helps Apple Keep iPhone Away from Bad Guys – A User Experience Perspective (Editions, Edition 11)

SAP UI History

SAP UI History (Goodies, SAP UI History)
R/3 History in Screen Shots (Goodies, SAP UI History)
Short History of SAP's Web Applications (Goodies, SAP UI History)
Short History of R/3 Icons (Goodies, SAP UI History)
The History of Product Branding at SAP (Goodies, SAP UI History) • The History of Product Branding at SAP (Editions, Edition 6)
Extending a Software Brand Language Across the Vendor, the Customer, and the User (Goodies, SAP UI History) • Extending a Software Brand Language Across the Vendor, the Customer, and the User (Editions, Edition 6)
Creating the SAP Product Language (Goodies, SAP UI History) • Creating the SAP Product Language (Editions, Edition 8)
Software Design with User Interface Patterns: Centered on the User (Goodies, SAP UI History) • Software Design with User Interface Patterns: Centered on the User (Community, Stories)
Introduction to User Interface Patterns at SAP (Goodies, SAP UI History) • Introduction to User Interface Patterns at SAP (Community, Design Tidbits)
User Interface Patterns • Components for User Interfaces (Goodies, SAP UI History) • User Interface Patterns • Components for User Interfaces (Editions, Edition 8)

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