http://www.sapdesignguild.org/rss/ SAP Design Guild News 2007 en-us (c) SAP AG, Germany Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tue, 15 April 2008 12:30:00 GMT We added two book presentations to our Books & People page. (1) Bill Buxton: Sketching User Experiences, (2) Colin Ware: Visual Thinking for Design. Both books have also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Mon, 12 April 2008 11:30:00 GMT The Design Services Team offers a new Design Consultant position at Palo, Alto, CA. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/design_consultant.asp Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:00:00 GMT Rich Gold was probably one of the most creative and multi-faceted persons of our time. Born in 1950, he performed as an experimental musician, designer, and artist in the seventies. Thereafter, he worked at various times at diverse locations, such as Xerox PARC and the toy companies SEGA and Mattel. In his later years, Gold was also a sought-after speaker. In the last year of his busy but regrettably too short life – he died of cancer in 2003 – Gold wrote The Plenitude, a short inspiring book, which captures his ideas about creativity, innovation, and the human desire for "making stuff." http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_gold.asp Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:30:00 GMT Today we added another new presentation for the CSUN 2008 conference: Benefit of Good UI Design in Web-Applications for Disabled and Non-Disabled Users http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/CSUN_2008_Boeker_Schaetz.ppt Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The SAP UX Visual Design Team offers an Industrial Designer position and two positions for working students at Walldorf, Germany. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/jobs.asp Thu, 12 Mar 2008 13:30:00 GMT We added two more examples to the article and changed its title. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/controls_horror.asp Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:30:00 GMT We would like to start a collection of "controls of horror," that is, a selection of user interface controls that terrorize users in a number of ways - be it that they annoy them, steal their time, mislead them, or whatever. We begin the collection with three controls, hoping that it will grow over time. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/controls_horror.asp Wed, 12 Mar 2008 08:30:00 GMT Today we added a new presentation for the CSUN 2008 conference: Adding Additional Accessibility Capabilities to Installed Software After Shipment http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/csun_2008_v3.ppt Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:15:00 GMT The second article of the series has been published together with the first one. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/attributes_2.asp Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:15:00 GMT In this short series of two articles, our author looks at a fairly common task – namely the selection of one or more objects on the basis of their attributes – and presents a number of ways of performing it, ranging from a text-based, formal query statement to new visualization techniques. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/attributes_1.asp Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:30:00 GMT Looking back over the last eight years at least, it looks like there is a tradition to hold the CHI conference outside of North America every four years. Our author does not know whether this is a firm rule. In any case, in 2008, the CHI conference will be held in Florence, Italy, a wonderful city boasting plenty of beautiful Renaissance buildings and art treasures. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_02_2008.asp Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:00:00 GMT We updated the guideline "Frontend Requirements and Infrastructure for Accessibility" in the Accessibility part of our Resources section. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/acc.asp Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:00:00 GMT We added new accessibility guidelines for keyboard access for Web Dynpro for ABAP / Web Dynpro for Java to the Accessibility part of our Resources section. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/acc.asp Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:30:00 GMT Seven years after the first edition of his textbook Information Visualization, Robert Spence published the second edition of his book, increasing the volume by more than 70 pages, although not the book's thickness – the new edition seems to be made of lighter and thinner paper. A The publisher explains that the second edition has been updated as follows: a new structure, new case studies, new material material on cognitive issues in human performance, and updated examples and illustrations. In addition, there are new student exercises at the end of each chapter, and a new DVD full of videos illustrating diverse visualization techniques. So, let's see what the new version of the textbook has to offer. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_info_vis2.asp Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:30:00 GMT From time to time, our author gets somewhat frustrated about the progress that the software industry has made with respect to delivering usable applications. In his opinion, one of the many reasons for this situation is the barriers that still exist between software developers and UI professionals. Developers and UI people seem to live in different worlds and speak different languages. In this editorial, our author wants to delve a bit deeper into this dilemma and look at the proposed solutions. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_01_2008.asp Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:30:00 GMT We added three new biographies of well known UI/design people to our Books & People page: Sarah Horton, Henry Lieberman, and Robert Spence. The biographies have also been added to the archive. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:30:00 GMT Our author cannot think of any other topic in the electronic universe for which so many guidelines and recommendations have been written as for the design of Websites. So, here is one more style guide for Web designers. This time, it has been written by Sarah Horton. Actually, Horton is an "old hand" in the Web style guide business. Together with Patrick Lynch, she co-authored one of the earliest and best known sets of guidelines for the Web, now called the Web Style Guide. Horton calls her latest style guide Access by Design – a Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers, indicating that she now follows a universal Web design approach. Our review examines what this means. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_acc_design.asp Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT We added one more, long overdue, new book presentation to our Books & People page: Alan Cooper, Robert M. Reimann & Dave Cronin: About Face 3.0. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:00:00 GMT We added three quotes from Sarah Horton to our selection of quotes in the Books & People corner. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/quotes.asp Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:00:00 GMT Two years ago in the last editorial for 2005, our author asked "What Matters Most?" and took a look at the most severe obstacles to usability. In this editorial, the final one for 2007, he would like to gloss over a related topic, namely "What influences performance at the computer?" When he looks back to the 2005 editorial, he finds that waiting times and system crashes were the primary factors. On closer inspection, however, it shows that the performance issue encompasses a great deal more than just technical factors. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_04_2007.asp Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:30:00 GMT We added three new book presentations to our Books & People page: (1) Rich Gold, The Plenitude; (2) Harold Thimbleby, Press On; (3) Reas & Fry, Processing. The books have also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Mon, 10 Dec 2007 13:00:00 GMT With this first selection of articles under the common framework of a "Highlight Topic" we would like to start a new tradition on the SAP Design Guild Website. We intend to offer articles, which have already been published on our Website and relate to a common topic, within a coherent framework similar to an edition. We hope that having the articles in one place will make it easier for our visitors to catch up on a certain topic from the UI field. We begin with a selection of articles centered around the topic "Universal Usability." http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/highlight_articles_01/overview_highlight.asp Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:15:00 GMT Until now, there was no specific approach available for usability management in SAP projects and SAP implementation projects in particular. Now, there is a new book on this topic, targeted at decision makers and consultants who implement SAP software systems in companies. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_usab_manag.asp Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:00:00 GMT Universal usability is a fairly new concept in the user interface design field. This article explains what universal usability means and how it is related to similar concepts, such as universal access and universal design. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/universal_usability.asp Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:30:00 GMT SAP NetWeaver UI offers a User Interface Designer position at Walldorf, Germany. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/jobs_nw2.asp Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT We added the WUD 2007 report also to the SAP User Experience Edition. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition10/wud2007_photos.asp Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT We published a short report with photos of the German WUD 2007 event in Mannheim. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_wud2007.asp Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:30:00 GMT We added the new Accessibility Guidelines for Web Dynpro for ABAP and Web Dynpro for Java to the Accessibility part of our Resources section and also updated the Accessibility Guidelines for ABAP Dynpro to version 3. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/acc.asp Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:15:00 GMT On September 19th, 2007 a new era started for SAP customers, users of SAP software, and the company itself. At a global press event in New York, USA, SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann unveiled the company's entirely new business software solution SAP Business ByDesign™ for the midsize market. It complements the existing small and midsize enterprise product portfolio, employs a new business model, also also breaks new grounds with respect to user experience. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT Book Review: Universal Usability Jonathan Lazar's book Universal Usability provides a rich and valuable overview of the current research into universal usability. It is probably the most comprehensive book on universal usability and its applications to date. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_univ_usab.asp Thu, 6 Sep 2007 08:30:00 GMT We published another set of desktop motives showing skies from Southern France. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_7.asp Mon, 3 September 2007 12:30:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page. Jeff Johnson: GUI Bloopers 2.0. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:00:00 GMT The second part of the "Mostly Swedish Skies" desktop motives has been published. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_6.asp Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:00:00 GMT After a longer break, we continue with the tradition of offering photo motives for the desktop. The second part will follow shortly. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_5.asp Tue, 26 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT On our SAP-internal SAP User Experience Website, we publish a series of articles called "DAU reports," in which authors from UX report failures of computer users, where these may feel like the "dumbest assumable user," or DAU in short. Usually, these stories are only for internal use. In this editorial, however, our author would like to present a recent story by Gudrun Krebs and add a few comments to it. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_03_2007.asp Tue, 24 July 2007 10:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page. Petra Abele, Joerg Hurtienne, & Jochen Pruemper: Usability Management bei SAP-Projekten. Grundlagen – Vorgehen – Methoden (in German). The book has also been included in our book list. It includes a chapter written by SAP User Experience colleagues Ulrich Kreichgauer and Gerd Waloszek. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:00:00 GMT SAP User Experience colleagues Jonathan Arnowitz and Michael Arent, together with Nevin Berger from Ziff Davis Media, have invested a great deal of time and effort to put together Effective Prototyping for Software Makers, which is probably the most comprehensive book about prototyping for software applications to date. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_eff_prototyping.asp Tue, 17 July 2007 10:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page. Robert Spence: Information Vizualization (2nd edition). The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:30:00 GMT The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2007, will be held in Beijing, P.R. China, from July 22-27, 2007. SAP User Experience will have a recruiting booth at the conference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:00:00 GMT We restructured the Resources section and moved all outdated UI guidelines and papers to the Resources Archive. New UI guidelines will be published as soon as these are released to the public. Currently, we cannot specify a date. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/resources.asp Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:00:00 GMT According to our reviewer, Stephen Few's book Information Dashboard Design gives a concise overview of the various aspects that should be considered when designing dashboards. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_idb_design.asp Tue, 19 June 2007 09:00:00 GMT Today, we adapted the SAP Design Guild Website to the new look of the www.sap.com Website, SAP's company Website. Further design adaptations will follow in the course of this year. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Tue, 19 June 2007 09:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page. Stephen Few: Information Dashboard Design. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Mon, 11 June 2007 08:30:00 GMT We published a short article on how Thomas Otter, a Business Solutions Architect with SAP AG, Germany, reflected about his ASUG 2007 experience and the process of User Centered Design on his blog. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_asug2007_blog.asp Mon, 11 June 2007 08:30:00 GMT We added also the English version of the accessibility interview to the SAP User Experience Edition. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition10/acc_blaupause_0207.asp Wed, 6 June 2007 14:00:00 GMT Today, we published the English version of Angelika Jung's interview of Dr. Tanja Schätz and Gisbert Loff about SAP's approach to ensuring accessibility of its software applications. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_blaupause_0207.asp Tue, 5 June 2007 6:30:00 GMT We updated the events on the ASUG page and provided new contact information. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/asug.asp Mon, 4 June 2007 15:00:00 GMT The Creativity & Cognition conference 2007 will be held in Washington DC, from June 13th, 2007 through June 15th, 2007. The conference series began in 1993 and has evolved into a lively multidisciplinary event combining research and practice. Industry sponsors include SAP (SAP Research, Palo Alto). http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Fri, 25 May 2007 10:30:00 GMT We added two book presentations to our Books & People page. (1) Johnathan Lazar (Ed.): Universal Usability, (2) Sarah Horton: Access by Design. Both books have also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Wed, 23 May 2007 09:30:00 GMT We present a new book, written by SAP UX colleagues, on developing accessible software with SAP NetWeaver. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp Tue, 22 May 2007 17:15:00 GMT Angelika Jung from the DSAG member magazine blaupause interviewed Dr. Tanja Schätz and Gisbert Loff, both SAP User Experience, about SAP's approach to ensuring accessibility of its software applications (German only, English version in preparation). http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_blaupause_0207_d.asp Tue, 22 May 2007 17:15:00 GMT Today, we added one more article, which has also been published in the Stories section, to the SAP User Experience Editions. It covers SAP's approach to accessibility. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition10/overview_edition10.asp Mon, 7 May 2007 10:00:00 GMT Read the latest SAP UI News: (1) CHI 2007 Is Over -- CHI Tour, Too... - (2) SAP Usability Activities at 2007 ASUG Annual Conference - (3) Interaktionsforum Interaktionsdesign - And More... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/news.asp Mon, 14 May 2007 16:00:00 GMT Today, we added two articles, which have recently been published in the Stories section, to the SAP User Experience Editions. They cover SAP's presence at ASUG 2007 and the CHI 2007 conference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition10/overview_edition10.asp Thu, 10 May 2007 13:00:00 GMT SAP User Experience had the privilege of conducting a full roster of usability activities at this year's ASUG Annual Conference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_asug2007.asp Mon, 07 May 2007 10:00:00 GMT The CHI 2007 conference on human factors in computing systems, held in San Jose, California, USA, is over. The SAP booth had been busy from the beginning and continued so: On Tuesday, there was an author meets designer signature event with Karen Holtzblatt and Joerg Beringer. On Thursday, there was a Q&A session with Dan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, SAP User Experience, during the morning break. SAP participated in the CHI tour the day after the conference: On May 4, Google, Intuit, Frog Design, and SAP invited CHI attendees to visit each of their campuses to meet their designers and tour their facilities. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Fri, 04 May 2007 16:00:00 GMT The CHI 2007 conference on human factors in computing systems, held in San Jose, California, USA, is over. The SAP booth had been busy from the beginning and continued so: On Tuesday, there was an author meets designer signature event with Karen Holtzblatt and Joerg Beringer. On Thursday, there was a Q&A session with Dan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, SAP User Experience, during the morning break. SAP participates in the CHI tour the day after the conference: On May 4, Google, Intuit, Frog Design, and SAP invite you to visit each of their campuses to meet their designers and tour their facilities. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Fri, 04 May 2007 16:00:00 GMT We updated our photo story of SAP's presence at the CHI2007 conference in San Jose, California with some photos from the Q&A event with Dan Rosenberg. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_chi2007.asp Thu, 03 May 2007 15:00:00 GMT We started a photo story of SAP's presence at the CHI2007 conference in San Jose, California. We hope to add a few photos in the course of the following days. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_chi2007.asp Wed, 02 May 2007 12:30:00 GMT The CHI 2007 conference on human factors in computing systems, held in San Jose, California, USA, has opened. The SAP booth has already been quite busy and will continue so: On Tuesday, there was an author meets designer signature event with Karen Holtzblatt and Joerg Beringer. On Thursday, there will be a Q&A session with Dan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, SAP User Experience, during the morning break. Our team awaits you at the booth! SAP will also be part of the CHI tour the day after the conference: On May 4, Google, Intuit, Frog Design, and SAP invite you to visit each of their campuses to meet their designers and tour their facilities. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Wed, 02 May 2007 10:30:00 GMT The Design Services Team offers a new User Researcher position at Palo, Alto, CA. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/user_researcher.asp Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:00:00 GMT The CHI 2007 conference on human factors in computing systems will be held in San Jose, California, USA, from April 28 - May 3, 2007. As in previous years, SAP will be a Champion Sponsor to CHI and have a booth. See you there. SAP will also be part of the CHI tour the day after the conference: On May 4, Google, Intuit, Frog Design, and SAP invite you to visit each of their campuses to meet their designers and tour their facilities. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_02_2007.asp Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:30:00 GMT At the end of March 2007, several SAP colleagues including our author had the opportunity to attend the Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign in Potsdam, Germany. It was a small but excellent design conference held by the BA/MA Program for Interaction Design and the Interaction Design Lab of the University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_ifid.asp Wed, 19 Apr 2007 14:00:00 GMT Today, the SAP Design Guild Website started a new newsfeed service. Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:00:00 GMT When our reviewer received Bill Moggridge's book Designing Interactions, a book about interaction design and the evolution of graphical user interfaces, he immediately thought, "Wow! Will I ever manage to get through that book?" But finally, his review is at your disposal. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_des_interact.asp Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:00:00 GMT According to our reviewer, Bryan Lawson's book How Designers Think, should be standard reading for all those with a general interest in the topic. The book touches on the basics of the complex and difficult topic of design and attempts to explain design by analyzing the basic factors involved: the designer, the process of design, the product produced, and the customer. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_designers_think.asp Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:00:00 GMT This year marks the 25th anniversary of the CHI conference, one of the leading leading human-computer interaction (HCI) conferences in the world – some professionals would even say that the CHI conference is THE leading conference in the HCI realm. CHI2007 will be held in San Jose, California, from April 28th to May 3rd, 2007 – so it will be located close to the pulse beat of Silicon valley. Read more about CHI 2007 and SAP's presence there in our editorial. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_02_2007.asp Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:00:00 GMT When searching for new quotes to publish on the SAP Design Guild, our author scanned Don Norman's book, The Design of Everyday Things, that he had just read – and he was successful: he found two interesting quotes in the chapter To Err is Human. They highlight the fact that people make errors, and that, if there is a chance of an error being made, someone will eventually make it. But he felt somewhat uneasy with Norman's statements. After a while, he knew why: Norman's view of errors is – at least with respect to these two statements – incomplete. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_01_2007.asp Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:00:00 GMT Don Norman's "All-time classic" book The Design of Everyday Things has recently become "required reading" for SAP User Experience. And – shame on our reviewer – he had to admit, he hadn't read it up to now, even though it's been on the bookshelves since 1988 (first under the title "The Psychology of Everyday Things" or POET) and available in paperback with the current title since 2002. Well, he finally read the book, enjoyed it, and thought that other people should profit from his reading. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_des_ev_things.asp