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21st ACM UIST Symposium, NordiCHI, CSCW 2008
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Developing Accessible Applications with SAP NetWeaver Available as e-book

Developing Accessible Applications with SAP NetWeaver as eBook available

Now, the bestselling book Developing Accessible Applications with SAP NetWeaver, written by members of SAP's Accessibility team, is also available as accessible e-book. We are very proud that Galileo Press has chosen our book as first e-book in their product portfolio.
Go See the accessibility section in Resources • Read Breaking Down Barriers

Featured Articles

  • new Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback Part 2 In the second part of this short series of three articles, our author looks at different types of feedback that can be given in the event of a delay: Immediate feedback and different forms of busy feedback, such as busy indicator feedback, working indicator feedback, as well as informed feedback, such as progress bars and system messages.
  • Book Review: GUI Bloopers 2.0 Seven years after the original publication of his famous GUI Bloopers book, Jeff Johnson published the second edition, GUI Bloopers 2.0, announcing on the cover that it has been "totally updated and revised." Of course, "updated and revised" points to the fact that the essentials of the book have remained unchanged – and that is a good thing, because GUI Bloopers was already a useful book in its first edition.
  • Rapid User-Centered Design for Mobile Enterprise Applications This report summarizes a design and research project carried out earlier this year within the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. The University and LG Mobile initiated a project to develop innovative design concepts for future scenarios of mobile interaction.
  • A Walk Through Some Buzzwords In his summer editorial for 2008, our author would like to take his readers on a tour of many of the buzzwords that have been used for our profession of designing usable software applications. Do not expect him to be objective, complete, fair, or politically correct in his observations. This is just a subjective tour of some buzzwords that he has encountered, and he will share his personal opinions and, finally, his personal favorite.
  • Four New Articles About SAP's New Visual Design The SAP User Experience – Visual Design team is proud to present a brand new visual design for SAP products. Designed and developed in Walldorf, Germany by our in-house design team, the new Signature design is a milestone in product design at SAP and in the business software industry. Four new articles in the Resources section cover this exciting topic.