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Updated: August 31, 2010

The Stories section offers a growing selection of articles centered around reports and projects from the UI and graphic design field.

 

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SAP's Presence at DIS 2010 - A Photo Story

August 31, 2010: The DIS 2010 Conference was held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI from August 16-20, 2010 at the School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. SAP was a sponsor to DIS 2010 and had a recruiting booth at the conference. In this report, we offer some photos from the booth and the event.

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Beyond Clicking: Successful 2010 SAP User Experience Conference in Shanghai

SAP User Experience Conference in China 2010August 5, 2010: In July 2010, the SAP user experience (UX) team organized the SAP User Experience Conference at Shanghai International Convention Center. Over 200 industry practitioners, university professors, and students from the UX field joined the one-day event. Drawing on years of experience in user interface (UI) design, senior members of the SAP UX team shared their insights into current business application design, illustrated with examples from SAP's state-of-the-art solutions. Experienced designers from peer companies and university researchers shared their design thinking and speculated on emerging UI technology trends, making the conference a grand gathering for the UX community in China. Read a review of the event by Jeff Zhu.

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SAP User Experience Conference in China 2010

July 9, 2010: SAP User Experience conference will be held at Shanghai International Convention Center on July 17th, 2010. Dan Rosenberg and Michael Arent of SAP User Experience will share their 30 years of UX experience. Moreover, a reputable group of industry experts and college professors will discuss with you innovative ideas, research, and project operation in workshops and round table sessions. The SAP User Experience team will provide you with a great opportunity for UX professionals to catch the hottest topics and build connections with international experts and peers.

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iKitchen

iKitchenJune 22, 2010: In this report, Frank Reichert and Fabian Kraft, together with their supervisor Thomas Hirt, present a novel interactive kitchen system that they created as part of their studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. The challenge that Frank and Fabian faced was another facet of Thomas Hirt's interests: to develop visionary concepts and designs for an interactive kitchen interface. The project was a collaboration with an industry partner so the project was not only about design but also involved the entire product development life-cycle, including a market analysis on which the final design concepts were based.

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SAP's Presence at UPA 2010 - A Photo Story

June 9, 2010: SAP was a platinum sponsor of the UPA 2010 Conference, held from May 24-28, 2010 at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich with the motto: "Embracing Cultural Diversity - User Experience Design for the World." SAP had a recruiting booth there. Dan Rosenberg, SVP SAP User Experience, was one of the invited speakers and also visited the booth. In this report, we offer some photos from the booth and the event. (Updated June 29, 2010)

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The Promise of using ui patterns for large software packages revisited

Apr 26, 2010: In this case study Annette Stotz and Udo Arend reflect on how a UI pattern-based design for building standard business software affects the user experience and the user-centered design process. Pattern-based design does not optimize the user experience per se. Additional factors, such as user-centered design, prototyping tools, and management support determine the success or failure of the pattern-based approach. Interweaving the factors in the right way is a prerequisite for success.

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INTERACT 2009 – Research & Practice?

INTERACT 2009 posterDec 10, 2009: INTERACT 2009, the 12th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction took place in Uppsala, Sweden, the country's oldest university city. This conference has a more European "feel" than, for example, the CHI conference, is one of the smaller international HCI conferences, and has a chiefly academic touch. The conference hosts do, however, seem to have already identified this bias as an issue and attempted to counteract it: The conference motto was "Research & Practice", and an "industry day" was introduced as a new ingredient. But was that enough to justify the motto? Our author will return to this question at the end of his report.

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