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EditorialsUpdated: May 7, 2010 The Editorials section collects articles that present the SAP Design Guild's editors' thoughts and experience.
Recent AdditionsSAP User Experience at UPA 2010
10th Anniversary of the SAP Design Guild
Announcing the 10th Anniversary Edition
Is There Such a Thing as Perceived Quality?
Technology Connects People!
Living in Bubbles
E-Mail-Driven Work01/12/2009: On our author's very first day at SAP, he was introduced to two software applications: R/Mail and Kale. Even though he had some prior experience with e-mail at university, he had no idea how important e-mail would become for his work.
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05/07/2010: 
04/08/2010:
Ten years ago, on April 1, 2000 the SAP Design Guild Website was opened
to the public. In this editorial, long-time team members Christine Ronnewinkel
and Gerd Waloszek want to say thank to the visitors of the site, look
briefly look back in the site's history, and provide a brief outlook
of the future. 
03/03/2010:
In less than a month's time, the SAP Design Guild Website will celebrate
its 10th anniversary. The SAP Design Guild team decided to celebrate
this anniversary in a special way, namely by cumulatively collecting
articles in an "anniversary edition" throughout the anniversary
year. In this editorial, the team announces the edition. 
09/01/2009:
In October 2009, Dan Rosenberg, senior vice president, SAP User Experience,
gave a keynote speech at the German Quality Engineering 2009 conference
in Frankfurt, Germany, titled "The Human Factor as an
Integral Component of Quality Measurement." For this reason, he
asked the Perceived Performance (PeP) team at SAP User Experience for
input. This incident started an unconscious process in our author's brain
that tried to pull two buzzwords together that had not had any association
for me previously: "perceived" and "quality." He
asked himself whether there is such a thing as "perceived quality."
In this editorial, he will look for some first answers.
06/16/2009: Many
people blame technology, and in particular information technologies,
for alienating people. Think of the teenagers who sit in front of their
computers playing games all day. Other people, however, hold exactly
the opposite to be true: They believe technology connects people. There
are also many examples of this, starting with the Internet, instant messaging,
discussion boards, and cell phones. In this editorial, our author wants
to tell a few loosely connected true stories that also prove that technology
connects people, provided that a few preconditions are met – by
both the technology and humans.
05/05/2009: The author of our latest editorial was inspired by his current slow
walking speed to write an editorial about "living in a bubble,"
actually "living in many bubbles." With this phrase, he intends to
point out that we often live in closed, separate "worlds" of our own
or of a specific community. Typically, we are not even aware of this
fact – that is the "dangerous" aspect of these bubbles. Of course,
our author also discovers bubbles in his own professional field.