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Editions and Highlight Topics – OverviewUpdated: August 5, 2010 Editions offer article collections dedicated to a UI-related topic in the SAP environment. Highlight topics are collections of related articles that had been published on the SAP Design Guild before and are now offered under a common framework. Below, you will find the latest editions and highlight topics that were published on the SAP Design Guild Website.
Edition 11: 10th Anniversary EditionPublished March 3, 2010 This is the eleventh edition of the SAP Design Guild Website, and it is a very special one. It commemorates the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Website in April 2010 and will be our special way of celebrating this event. The overall theme will be current and future trends in HCI, UI design, or user experience – whichever term suits you and our authors best. We have deliberately left the topic somewhat vague so that both external and SAP authors can join us and contribute articles to the edition.
Aligning with our editorials, the articles will be written in conversational style. Rather than discussing topics in-depth, their aim will be to provide "food for thought" and for possible further articles that cover topics in-depth in other sections of our Website. All in all, this edition will be an adventure for the SAP Design Guild team and for our visitors. Although we have done some planning and preparation work in advance and have produced an outline of possible articles to come, we will be starting off with no real idea of how the edition will actually look in the end. But that's what makes this adventure such an exciting one. Go to 10th Anniversary Edition
Highlight Topic 2: Human Performance at the ComputerPublished November 13, 2008; updated March 4, 2010
We have also provided a few new articles, including a glossary, a list of references and links, and a collection of performance analogies. We will also follow the tradition of the first highlight topic Universal Usability and add a few new articles over the course of the year 2009. Go to Highlight Topic Human Performance at the Computer
Highlight Topic 1: Universal UsabilityPublished December 10, 2007; updated March 4, 2010
Our first highlight topic offers a selection of articles centered on the topic "Universal Usability." It starts with three recent articles on universal usability:
We complement these three pieces with additional information from previous accessibility editions, hoping that our visitors will find them also useful in the context of Universal Usability and its related concepts, Universal Access and Universal Design. The information covers topics such as universal design, assistive technology, information equivalence, and an introduction to visual impairments. Last but not least, we added two new articles: One is a collection of references and links that will allow our visitors to delve more deeply into the field of Universal Usability. The second is a Universal Usability glossary. Go to Highlight Topic Universal Usability
Edition 10: SAP User ExperiencePublished December 21, 2006; updated August 31, 2010 With this tenth edition we would like to depart somewhat from previous editions and feature the SAP User Experience (SAP UX) team, led by Dan Rosenberg since mid-2005, and its work. In this edition we would like to show two aspects of the SAP UX team. First we would like to present a series of successful projects completed by SAP UX team members, which demonstrate how the team's work has impacted SAP's software development and how this work will lead to substantial improvements with respect to usability and user experience. Secondly, we have collected a handful of SAP UX-related articles that have already been published in the SAP Design Guild and put them in one place, thus providing our readers with a better overview of the SAP UX team's work and the principles that it follows. One cornerstone principle is the new User-Centered Design process (UCD process) that is currently being rolled out at SAP and discussed in several articles. Our new standards and guidelines for SAP's user interface will follow. You will also see that the SAP UX team is a truly global team. It is spread out all over the world – from Palo Alto, USA to Walldorf, Germany, Sofia, Bulgaria, Ra'anana, Israel, Bangalore, India, and Shanghai, China. |
Highlight Topics
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Our second highlight topic is devoted to human performance
at the computer and includes topics such as responsiveness, perceived
performance, and busy feedback. The articles have
been published in different areas of the SAP Design Guild over the
course of about one year
and are now presented within a coherent
framework for easier access.
