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SAP Design Guild Newsletters 2000-2002

Updated: 03/19/2008

Newsletters 2008 || Newsletters 2005-2007 || Newsletters 2003-2004 || 2002: 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 || 2001: 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 || 2000: 02 | 01

Nothing gets lost at the SAP Design Guild. Here is the archive of our newsletters.

 

2002

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 16 - 11/21/2002

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• Editorial on narrative user interfaces: From GUIs to Narrative Interfaces – From Point-and-Click to Computers Telling Stories
• Summary of the lecture of Professor José L. Encarnação, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt, Germany:
  Future Scope – Tangible Information
• The problems with the subscribe/unsubscribe function to our newsletter have been corrected
• Update of Optical Illusions in the resources section

Furthermore, we will publish an in-depth article on narrative user interfaces by the end of November. Please check out the news on our homepage.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 15 - 10/31/2002

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• We published two new articles in the collaboration edition: The Social Web Cockpit: Assistant for Teams and Communities by Fraunhofer FIT SAP Collaboration Room (mySAP Enterprise Portal Edition) by SAP's Martin Kreyscher
• The redesign of the SAP Design Guild Website in the SAP.com standard design style is now finished
• The problems with the subscribe/unsubscribe function to our newsletter have been corrected
• There are slight changes to the resources section Among other changes, we added articles about the history of R/3 and SAP Web Applications

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 14 - 10/25/2002

With this newsletter we would like to inform you about the following news and current activities "under the hood" of the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The SAP Reference Lists had a major upgrade with respect to the terminology pages; this is useful especially for German-speaking developers
• Two new articles are in the pipeline for the current Collaboration edition – they will be published in November.
• The SAP Design Guild will have a "facelift" on October 31st. We will change its appearance to make it look more similiar to the SAP.com standard design, while still retaining the look of the SAP portal and accessibility features, such as font-scaling in the browser.

So, keep an eye out for the changes to come and take a look at the news on the homepage, where the new articles will be announced.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 13 - 09/12/2002 - Collaboration Edition

We are pleased to announce the fifth edition of the SAP Design Guild Website focusing on the topic "Collaboration – Working Efficiently in a Complex Network of People and Information."

Link to the introductory page of the new edition:
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition.asp

Our leading article looks at the the current issues in the field of collaboration. Further introductory articles define what collaboration means – including a collaboration glossary (that is also offered in the Resources section) – and offer useful links to various information resources.

A second group of articles covers a wide range of topics, such as

• new approaches to collaboration,
• knowledge management and knowledge sharing,
• communities, personal networks,
• and groupware.

For example, an article by InContext Enterprises presents an in-depth field study and emphasizes the relevance of personal networks in B2B relationships.

Finally, there is a group of articles presenting collaboration software projects from SAP – for example, a discussion of design issues and a look at the design process from a usability point of view.

See below the complete list of articles and authors in this edition. (not shown in the newsletter archive – see the collaboration edition, for reference)

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 12 - 08/09/2002

We would like to inform you of the following updates and additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• Update of the SAP Icon Style Guide
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/icon_cookbook/index.html
• Form layout added to SAP HTMLB Guidelines
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/htmlb_guidance/index.html
• A new reader's contribution: Announcing a Project - Understanding the Role of Emotion in eLearning
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_thissen.asp

The new edition with the topic "collaboration" will be published in the beginning of September. We still welcome any contributions. Please contact us at sapdesignguild@sap.com.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 11 - 07/11/2002

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild:

• Part III of the Screen Layout article series:
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/layout3.asp
• Update of the design process papers in the Resources section:
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/resources.asp
  The previous versions have been moved to an archive:
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/archive/brainstorming-old.asp
• The Editorial about the results of the SAP Design Guild survey:
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_03_2002.asp
• A newcomer's personal CHI 2002 report:
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_chi2002_cw.asp

We restructured the navigation bar of the SAP Design Guild Website: We added "Editions" so that you have easier access to this section. By the way, the preparation of our collaboration edition is in full swing and we welcome any contributions! Please contact us at sapdesignguild@sap.com.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 10 - 06/10/2002

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild:

• Update of the iView Guidelines
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/ma_guidelines_3/index.html
• A personal CHI 2002 report from Gerd Waloszek, SAP Design Guild team Get a picture of the recent CHI conference in Minneapolis (new technical developments, news, highlights, thoughts ...)
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_chi2002_gw.asp
• Update of ASUG article
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_asug2002.asp
• Restructured overview pages of Design Tidbits and Innovation section
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/innovation_articles/innovation_overview.asp
  http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/design.asp

You may also be interested in the results of our survey that has been online between May 2 and June 2. We would like to thank all participants for giving us useful feedback, mostly very positive. We are about to analyze the data and to publish a summary and an overview of the findings within the framework of an editorial. The five winners of the survey raffle are published on our website today:
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/survey_end.asp

Last but not least: The topic of the next edition of the SAP Design Guild will be collaboration. (edition = a collection of articles with the aim of widening the understanding of a specific topic) If you have any contributions or suggestions for sub-topics concerning the area of collaboration, please contact us at sapdesignguild@sap.com.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 9 - 04/18/2002

This month, the SAP Design Guild celebrates its second anniversary – an ideal opportunity for looking back, taking stock, and considering the future of the SAP Design Guild...

Check out the new editorial.

New in the Design Tidbits section:

• "The Art of Hiding – Part 2"
• The author presents examples of "hiding" techniques.
• Part II of the article series on layout "Layout Hierarchy"

There is also a new contribution to our Resources section: The SAP Portals HTMLB Guidelines. These guidelines describe how to develop usable and accessible Web applications and iViews using HTMLB and the SAP Portals' Portal framework. These applications include applications that are part of the Portal framework, such as adminstration and personalization applications.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 8 - 03/22/2002

This week, we published a new article in the Design Tidbits section starting a short series on screen layout: "Screen Layout – Part I: General Considerations"

Morevover, the Design Tidbits have been restructured slightly and complemented with articles from other areas to offer a group of articles on the design process.

Did you already know that we introduced the Info Area section with e.g. Quick Tips for using our Website?

The tips and the FAQ list may help you in using the SAP Design Guild more efficiently.

Another feature there is the SAP Links page where we started a collection of links to products from the SAP group and to SAP itself. These links may be quite handy at times...

Check out the Info Area.

We also changed the design of the sitemap to a linear, simplified one.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 7 - 02/18/2002

The SAP Design Guild Team is pleased to announce our new edition "Accessibility - Section 508 and its Consequences" . It is published in cooperation with the ACC (Accessibility Competence Center) at SAP Labs, Palo Alto. In this fourth edition of the SAP Design Guild experts discuss accessibility issues. It offers, among others, articles on accessibility regulations and guidelines, assistive technology, visual disabilities, and the work of the ACC.

Moreover, we received a new Reader's Contribution "Location-Awareness for Improving the Usability of Mobile Enterprise Applications".

Enjoy reading and check out the – as we hope – more accessible SAP Design Guild.

 

2001

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 6 - 10/19/2001

From now on, we offer print versions not only of the articles in the Innovation and Community section but also of the cookbooks and styleguides in the Construction area.

We would also like to announce the topic of our new Innovation edition planned for the end of this year: It will deal with accessibility issues (section 508). This edition will be published in cooperation with the ACC (Accessibility Competence Center) at SAP Labs, Palo Alto.

Please, feel free to contact us, if you want to contribute to this edition.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 5 - 08/21/2001

Today, we published new articles in the "Opinion" section:

• the Editorial "How Much Creativity Can We Generate?"
• the Design Tidbits offer a short series of two articles on a personal approach to design and design tools: "My Design Tools – Part 1 and 2"

Please, note that this is the last "Opinion" issue of the SAP Design Guild. In a couple of weeks, we will replace the "Opinion" section with a new "Community" section.

With the new section, we hope to better promote the community character of the SAP Design Guild. It will continue to offer design articles, opinions and readers' contributions, but no longer on a regular basis. In the beginning, it will include the discussion forum (external version only) and the "events" page.

We are eagerly waiting for your suggestions on how we can expand and improve the new "Community" section.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 4 - 07/27/2001

Today, we published new articles in the "Opinion" section:

• a report of "SAP Usability Activities at ASUG 2001" conference in the Readers' Contributions corner
• the Editorial "What is an Application Design?"
• the Design Tidbits offer an article on "Mapping a Conceptual Interface to a Physical Interface"

Moreover, there is a page on Accessibility 508 in the "Construction" section.

There are also new additions to the "goodies" section:

• There is a new "Events" page
• Optical Illusions: An "Introduction to Perception" added
• Software-Ergonomie ´99 conference website (in German only!!) published

Last but not least even more good news: From now on, we provide print versions of our articles.

Enjoy reading (and printing :-)).

SAP Design Guild Newletter No. 3 - 06/29/2001

Today we published new articles in the "Opinion" section:

• the Editorial deals with one of the most relevant question for user interface designers: "Why Do Computers Make Us Look Stupid?"
• the Design Tidbits offer an article on hierarchies
• the Readers' Contributions corner has a new article with another personal view of the CHI 2001 in Seattle, WA.

Moreover, there are three new articles in the "Innovation" section:

• Creating New Work Paradigms for the Enterprise Portal (by Karen Holtzblatt, Incontext Enterprises)
• The Posture of Portals (by Ernest Kinsolving, Cooper Interaction Design and Jörg Beringer, SAP Portals)
• Creating the Interaction Design (by Margarete Fuss, Usability Engineering Center, SAP AG)

Finally, there is a new addition to the "goodies" section: a page on well-known people in the UI and graphic design field.

SAP Design Guild - Third Edition - 06/08/2001

We are pleased to announce the third edition featuring the topic "Portals - The Information, Functionality and Services I Need at My Fingertips". Here, experts discuss enterprise portals – their role, design and ingredients.

From now on, we will offer all of the SAP Design Guild's content free of charge. We hope that this move will make the SAP Design Guild more accessible to visitors interested in the design field.

Enjoy reading!

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 2 - 05/21/2001

On Friday the 18th of May we published new articles in the "Opinion" section:

• Editorial: Is a Portal a Portal?
• Design Tidbits: Animation – The Chili Pepper of the Web

We would also like to draw your attention to a new, preliminary simplification guide, which has been recently published.

Please, also note that the next edition featuring "portals" is coming soon. Therefore, we will publish new opinion articles not until mid-June.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 1 - 04/27/2001

In this newsletter, we would like to inform you of new additions to the SAP Design Guild.

Today we published new articles in the "Opinion" section:

• the Editorial is for all of us who are not native speakers of English but have to write articles in English
• the Design Tidbits offer an article on the presentation of hierarchies
• the Readers' Contributions corner has two new articles with commentaries about the CHI 2001 in Seattle, WA

In case you have not visited our website recently, the following updates and additions have been made:

• there is an updated version of the R/3 Style Guide
• there is a reference book containing icon lists, terminology lists, function key lists, etc.
• there are glossaries on usability, the Web, and color
• the optical illusions have been extended

 

2000

SAP Design Guild - August Edition Now Online - 09/04/2000

Starting with the August edition of the SAP Design Guild, we want to establish a new tradition that will surely make the SAP Design Guild even more interesting for the UI community. Each edition will feature a topic of current interest for the SAP world. Experts from inside and outside SAP are invited to contribute articles for this topic, which will be presented in the SAP Design Guild's Innovation section – a stage for "expert opinions."

The articles may be specific to SAP and its products, but also may take a broader or even subjective point of view. Any contribution that helps to broaden our insight is welcome! This edition of the SAP Design Guild features the mySAP.com Workplace and MiniApps, SAP's entries into the portal arena. Portals have aroused quite a lot of publicity and even excitement this year.

There are already many variants of them on the market, like consumer portals, corporate portals, or so-called vertical portals. The mySAP.com Workplace is SAP's view of which ingredients a good portal site should include; role-specific functionality and MiniApps are two of its characteristics.

The articles range from general discussions of portals to specific design questions like efficient MiniApp design or integration of WAP phones into the workplace. We hope you will find the articles useful and interesting to read. Look also for what is new in this edition!

SAP Design Guild - New Features - 08/01/2000

The SAP Design Guild Team is pleased to announce a discussion board and an opinion section.

Moreover, our homepage now features a "News" area that lists the most recent changes and additions to our site.

http://www.sapdesignguild.org

We created the SAP Design Guild as a resource for the user interface community. Here readers can exchange information and opinions on visual and user interface design issues. In addition, SAP offers its design resources in the form of style guides, methods, and insights into how a user-centered development process should be carried out and institutionalized.

As we concentrated our efforts on pooling design resources and preparing them for the site, the SAP Design Guild has up to now been a more or less "static" medium. Now it is time to shift our focus to discussion. While the static resources of the SAP Design Guild are still an important "selling point," we want to supplement these with content that changes daily, fortnightly, and quarterly:

The "Innovation" section of the SAP Design Guild is tied to our editions, which appear 3 to 4 times a year. Here, experts from outside and inside SAP dedicate articles to one "hot" topic in the SAP or UI community.

The new "Opinion" section features articles which are updated fortnightly. Every two weeks you will find editorials, but also articles on design issues, opinions, and personal view points, or even critical comments on what is going on in the UI field.

And what does a community need most? A discussion board! Well, here it is – called forum – and it is up to you to bring it to life.

 

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