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10th Anniversary Edition

Special Edition: Edition 11 – published 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. "Special way" means that, unlike previous editions, this one will not be published "all in one go." Instead, it will be a "growing" or "cumulative" edition, with articles being added in the course of the anniversary year. This publication style will keep the anniversary fresh in the minds of both visitors and the SAP Design Guild team and will thus provide a neat way of celebrating and commemorating it. If you'd like to find out more about the motivation behind this edition, read the editorial, Announcing the 10th Anniversary Edition.

SAP Design Guild homepages in 2000 and 2010

So much for the technical and administrative stuff! You may, quite rightfully, be asking what the topic of the anniversary edition will be. 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.

At the edition's starting point, we will begin by looking back rather than debating future trends. In our lead article, we will take our readers on a short retrospective tour of previous editions and highlight topics. Two further articles will be devoted to themes from our two highlight topics, Universal Usability and Human Performance at the Computer, putting the spotlight on topics that have been covered extensively on this site in previous years.

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.

 

Read the leading article for a brief retrospective of SAP Design Guild editions.

See also the editorial, Announcing the 10th Anniversary Edition.

 

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