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Featured Recent Additions

Book Review : Gamification at Work – Designing Engaging Business Software Do you want to learn more about gamification? How it belongs in the workplace? And the design best practices that can increase the efficacy of enterprise gamification efforts? Then stay tuned because here will you get a sneak peek, prepared by Rikke Friis Dam from IDF, into the insightful and powerful book Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, written by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger, who help you learn how to answer these questions.

SAP's UX Strategy Read about our new user experience strategy in an article by Esther Blankenship, User Experience Evangelist at SAP. You can also download a short brochure describing the strategy, which consists of the three pillars: new, renew, and enable.

Book Review: The Design Way We live in a world, which, on the one hand, has been shaped by natural forces and according to natural laws but which, on the other hand, has been shaped through human activity to such a degree that, as the authors of The Design Way write, "scientists have begun to label the present epoch as the Anthropocene era." They explain that "as human beings, we continuously create things that help reshape the reality and essence of the world as we know it. When we create new things ... we engage in design." The authors, however, bemoan the fact that "design has remained surprisingly invisible and unrecognized in the world at large." They point out that their book, The Design Way, is an attempt to change this, making the case for design as its own tradition by "delivering what has been missing, namely "writing a book about the philosophy of design" and "formulating its fundamental core of ideas."

Password Usability: To Protect or Prohibit? We are required to use an increasing number of user names, passwords and PINs in our daily lives. We use them for logging on to computers and networks, specific applications and websites, bank cards, mobile phones and even entry door systems. In this article, Rikke Friis Dam from IDF explains "What you should take into account when designing password input forms."

How to Increase Online Sales? In this short article, Rikke Friis Dam from IDF explains that "making customers register before they checkout is a barrier to purchase" – and provides some evidence for it.

 

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