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Article List – UI Design

Updated: May 22, 2013

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

A Lengthy Substantiation of Jeff Johnson's Book, Designing with the Mind in Mind (Community, UI Design Blinks)
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)
UI Guidelines Are a Developer's (or UI Designer's) Best Friends! (Community, UI Design Blinks)
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

General

A Humanistic Framework for Design (Community, Design Tidbits)
A Whole New Mind (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Bridging the Gap Revisited – Are UI Patterns Removing the Mystery from Design? (Community, UI Design Blinks)
Bringing Design to Software (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Design is the Solution – From Visual Clarity to Clarity in the Mind (Editions, Edition 11)
Digital Ground (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Finding Common Ground... (Community, Editorials)
Introducing Grand Design to the Digital Domain (Editions, Edition 0)
Introduction to Design Thinking (Community, Design Tidbits)
Inventing the Medium (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Leonardo's Laptop (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Participatory IT Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Sketching User Experiences (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Speeding UI Design Forward (Editions, Edition 0)
Technology as Experience (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Design of Everyday Things (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Design Way (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Thoughtful Interaction Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Transformative User Experience – Beyond Packaged Design (Community, Stories)
Windows and Mirrors (Book review; Community, Books & People)
User Experience and Experience Design (Community, Design Tidbits)

Design Examples and Projects

Adding Value to Your Interface by Using Simple Math and Matching (Community, Design Tidbits)
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)
Dan Rosenberg on Design (Community, Stories) • Dan Rosenberg on Design (Editions, Edition 10)
The Software Works the Way I Think: Beyond Point and Click (Community, Design Tidbits)
When Social Gets Serious (Community, Stories)

Teaching Design

A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part I • A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
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)
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)
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)
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)
How to Increase Online Sales? (Community, Design Tidbits)
Inventing the Medium (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Password Usability: To Protect or Prohibit? (Community, Design Tidbits)
Press On – Principles of Interaction Programming (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Progressive Disclosure (Community, Design Tidbits)
Refreshing Three HCI Laws: Fitts' Law, Hick's Law, and the Power Law of Practice (Community, Design Tidbits)
Stumbling Blocks for Good Application Design (Community, Editorials)
The Dilemma of Good and Bad Examples (Community, Editorials)
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)
What is an Application Design? (Community, Editorials)
What Matters Most? (Community, Editorials)

Special Design Topics

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)

Performance

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)

Simplification/Complexity

Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users (Community, Design Tidbits)
Enriching and Not-So-Enriching Complexity (Community, UI Design Blinks)
Living with Complexity (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Progressive Disclosure (Community, Design Tidbits)
Reducing Complexity (Community, Design Tidbits)
What Does "Simple" Mean? (Community, Design Tidbits)

User Interface Patterns

Bridging the Gap Revisited – Are UI Patterns Removing the Mystery from Design? (Community, UI Design Blinks)
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)

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)

A New Approach to the Gamification of Websites – Finding the Relevant Content (Community, UI Design Blinks)
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)
Responsive (Web) Design (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

A Mobile App and User Experience Success Story (Community, Stories)
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)
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)
User Interface Design in APO (updated 07/16/2003; Community, Stories)
Visualizing the Future (Community, Stories)
When Social Gets Serious (Community, Stories)
Working as a Designer in a Global Team (Community, Stories) • Working as a Designer in a Global Team (Editions, Edition 10)

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)

Design Issues and Dilemmas

A Clash of Conceptual Models Leads to Credit Card Hassles... (Community, UI Design Blinks)
Caught in an Accessibility Trap... (Community, UI Design Blinks)
Enriching and Not-So-Enriching Complexity (Community, UI Design Blinks)
Missing and Misleading Error Messages from a Bank Statement Printer... (Community, UI Design Blinks)
What Is a Usability Issue? (Community, UI Design Blinks)

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