SAP Design Guild Newsletters 2013

Updated: May 23, 2013

Newsletters: 98 | 97 | 96 | 95

Nothing gets lost at the SAP Design Guild. Here is the archive of our newsletters from 2013. Older newsletters can be accessed through the links in the navigation on the left.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter –  May 2013 (No. 98)

We would like to inform you of the following additions to the Website:

  • We co-published three new articles, a story, and two design tidbits:
    • SAP's UX Strategy (story)
    • How to Increase Online Sales? (design tidbit)
    • Password Usability: To Protect or Prohibit? (design tidbit)
  • We published in the Books&People section:
    • A review of The Design Way ( Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman) including an appendix
    • Two new book presentations ( Colin Ware: Information Visualization, Third Edition; Harri Oinas-Kukkonen & Henry Oinas-Kukkonen: Humanizing the Web – Change and Social Innovation ); we also added both books to our book list
  • W e published a new article in our UI Design Blinks column :
    • Human Memory Is Fallible…
  • Finally, we published a German translation of the System Usability Scale (SUS )

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter –  April 2013 (No. 97)

 We would like to inform you of the following additions to the Website:

  • We published four new articles, an editorial, a story, and two design tidbits:
    • Spring Editorial 2013 – Overview of SAP's Design and UX Activities in 2013 (editorial)
    • SAP Sponsorship Provides Free Textbooks that Enable Better Software (story)
    • User Experience and Experience Design (design tidbit)
    • Progressive Disclosure (design tidbit)
  • W e published two new article s in our UI Design Blinks column :
    • SAP Sponsors the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF)
    • Spring Awakened My iPad – and Old Questions
  • We are still busy with reviewing the book The Design Way by Harold G. Nelson and Erik Stolterman, but we added already a n extensive appendix , including a glossary, a tabular overview of the book, and more, to the Books&People section. Perhaps we can manage to publish a draft review by the end of this week (before my vacation)…

We would also like to inform you that SAP will be an exhibitor at the CHI 2013 conference in Paris, France (April 27-May 2, 2013). Positions are available, so come by booth 7 to meet Michelle Clary and Bernard Rummel and find out how you can join SAP's dynamic team of user experience and design professionals.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – March 2013 (No. 96)

 We would like to inform you of the following additions to the Website:

  • We published one new article in our UI Design Blinks column :
    • More on Multiple Skyline Graphs
  • In the Books&People section we added:
    • A new book review(New Smart by Howard Rheingold; with an extensive appendix)
  • In our Goodies section we added:
    • Two new glossaries in one page: Online Community and Social (Media) Network Glossaries
      (These glossaries were collected from two book reviews (Net Smart and Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL). We hope that they are more prominent this way.)
    • Five new quotes from Harold Nelson and Erik Stolterman to our Quotes collection, which now reached a total of 100 quotes.

We would also like to inform you that SAP has become the first main sponsor of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF).
Read more on IDF's sponsoring page.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – January/February 2013 (No. 95)

We would like to inform you of the following additions to the Website:

  • We published three new articles in our UI Design Blinks column:
    • A New Approach to the Gamification of Websites – Finding the Relevant Content
    • Bill Caemmerer on Multiple Skyline Graphs
    • Is the iPad – or Any Other Tablet Computer – a Productivity Tool?
  • In the Books&People section we added:
    • A new book presentation (Intersection by Milan Guenther); we added the book also to our book list.
  • In our Goodies section we added:
    • Two new pages with desktop motives: Mostly Natural Patterns 2011-2012 – Part 1 and Part 2
    • New quotes from Howard Rheingold to our Quotes page
    • We also updated a number of links on various pages and added new ones.
  • We prepared a new UI events page for 2013.
  • Last but not least, we updated our job offers (new visual designer position in Germany).

 

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