SAP Design Guild Newsletters 2003

Updated: June 24, 2010

Newsletters: 27 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 23 | 22 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17

Nothing gets lost at the SAP Design Guild. Here is the archive of our newsletters from 2003.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 27 - 12/08/2003

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

  • The authors John Hagel III and John Seely Brown added their article on IT Architectures to the Composite Applications Edition: The Agile Dance of Architectures – Reframing IT Enabled Business Opportunities
  • We have a new design tidbit on UI Patterns at SAP and a follow-up article on interaction styles: Introduction to User Interface Patterns at SAP, A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part II
  • In Stories we published the summary of the Future Scope event about the prospects of a post-PC era (originally published in SAPNet): Future Scope – The Post-PC Era
  • The Books & People section features two new books and a new short bio of an UI professional
  • The article about ASUG activities was updated: SAP Usability Activities at ASUG Events: Collecting Feedback From End Users
  • We also updated the SAP Portal Icons Guidelines

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 26 - 11/17/2003

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

  • We added two more articles to our edition on Composite Applications: One on Next Practices by Karen Holtzblatt and Jörg Beringer, and a second one on Web Services by Kaj van de Loo
  • Finally, we have a new editorial asking What is User Interface Design?
  • We published a new design tidbit offering a layman's view on interaction styles (Part I of two)
  • The Books & People corner has been updated (new short presentations of books and professionals)
  • Last, but not least, we polished our home page and some overview pages

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 25 - Composite Applications Edition - 10/20/2003

We are pleased to announce the seventh edition of the SAP Design Guild Website, featuring the topic xApps and Composite Application Design. In this edition, we take a closer look at composite applications and xApps, SAP's new breed of composite applications.

The overview page of the new edition presents a brief introduction to this edition's topic as well as links to all of this edition's articles.

In the section Leading and General Articles, Crossing Boundaries with Composite Applications is an introduction to the topic and this edition. Dan Woods' leading article, Packaged Composite Applications: A Liberating Force for the User Interface, takes an indepth look at composite applications and the implications for user interface designers.

Included in the section Theoretical Foundations, which offers more theoretically-oriented articles, we would especially like to draw your attention to an external contribution by Prof. A. Bernstein Process Recombination: An Ontology-Based Approach for Business Process Re-Design.

Finally, in the section Designing xApps, Examples of SAP xApps, members of the SAP xApp team present their first-hand experience with this topic.

We hope that you will find our selection of articles interesting, and, as always, we look forward to hearing your comments.

Apart from our new edition, there are several additions to the Community section:

  • A new design tidbit, Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part II, continues the short series on concept statements and Website messages.
  • An updated Books & People section offers a new book review of Mike Kuniavsky's Observing the User Experience, a new page with links to columns and to articles from usability and design professionals, and much more.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 24 - 09/17/2003

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

  • The Books & People section has been updated and offers a review of the book, Information Design, by Robert Jacobson: Book Review: Information Design
  • We have a new design tidbit on controls: An Introduction to Designing User Interface Controls at SAP
  • In Stories we published the summary of the Future Scope event at SAP last week about usage of Intelligent Agents for business processes: Future Scope – Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration with Intelligent Agents
  • The Info Area now includes a list of acronyms in the user interface and graphic design field: List of Acronyms

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 23 - 08/28/2003

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

  • After a bit of a hiatus, we have a new Design Tidbit: Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part I
  • The Books & People section has been updated and offers a review of the classic software design book, Bringing Design to Software, by Terry Winograd:
    • Book Review: Bringing Design to Software
  • The SAP Style Guide for PDA Applications has been updated (Resources).

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 22 - 07/24/2003

To help you get through the doldrums of summer, we added an editorial about HCI paradigms and two new book reviews to the SAP Design Guild Website:

  • Editorial: The Times They Are A-Changin' – So Are The HCI Paradigms
  • Book Reviews:
    • Making the Web Work (by Bob Baxley)
    • The Craft of Information Visualization – Readings and Reflections (by Ben Benderson & Ben Shneiderman)

We also updated the SAP Style Guide for PDA Applications (formerly: SAP Style Guide for White-Collar Worker PDAs) in Resources.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 21 - 06/21/2003

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

New book reviews in Books & People section in (Community):

  • Leonardo's Laptop (by Ben Shneiderman)
  • Paper Prototyping (by Carolyn Snyder)

A new article in Stories (the former Readers' Contributions) about RFID technology: Future Scope – A Networked World

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 20 - 05/20/2003

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

Three new articles in Stories (the former Readers' Contributions):

  • CHI 2003 – New Horizons, But What Are They? – A report from the CHI 2003 Event in Florida
  • SAP Usability Activities at ASUG Events: Collecting Feedback From End Users
  • Software Design with User Interface Patterns: Centered on the User

New Books & People section (in Community) with five book reviews:

  • Contextual Design: A Customer-Centered Approach to Systems Designs (by Hugh Beyer & Karen Holtzblatt)
  • Elements of Graph Design (by Stephen M. Kosslyn)
  • Information Visualization (by Robert Spence)
  • Gui Bloopers (by Jeff Johnson)
  • Web Bloopers (by Jeff Johnson)

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 19 - 03/25/2003

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

  • New design tidbits on narrative interfaces: Narrative User Interfaces
  • New editorial (Three Year Anniversary of SAP Design Guild): Three Years SAP Design Guild – A Review

Furthermore, we updated the SAP Usability Glossary, the SAP Web Glossary and the Color Glossary.

We are pleased to announce that SAP has become a Contributing Sponsor of CHI 2003. The annual CHI conference is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about computer-human interaction.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 18 - 02/21/2003 - Branding Edition

We are pleased to announce the sixth edition of the SAP Design Guild Website focusing on the topic Branding – Making a Mark on the Collective Consciousness.

Our leading article is a survey of the history of product branding at SAP. Further introductory articles define what branding means – including a branding glossary – and offer useful links to various information resources.

The second section of this edition offers articles from designers, including an article from frogdesign, a company that has over the years significantly contributed to SAP's branding activities.

Finally, there is a group of articles presenting SAP software projects and products for branding, for example the SAP Theme Editor.

Moreover, there are two additions to the Resources section:

  • SAP Style Guide for White-Collar Worker PDAs
  • SAP Style Guide for Blue-Collar Worker PDAs

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 17 - 01/17/2003

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

  • Editorial on creativity: The Rocky Road to Innovative Software Products – An Example
  • New design tidbit on Documentation: How Much Documentation Do Applications Need? – A Simple Example

Currently, we're hard at work on a new edition which focuses on branding. You can expect it in February.

 

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