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SAP Design Guild Newsletters 2005-20078

Last update: 03/19/2008 • Compiled and edited by the SAP Design Guild Team

Newsletters 2008 || 2007: 50 | 49 | 48 | 47 | 46 | 45 | 44 || 2006: 43 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 38 || 2005: 37 | 36 | 35 | 34 | 33 || Newsletters 2003-2004 || Newsletters 2000-2002

Nothing gets lost at the SAP Design Guild. Here is the archive of our newsletters.

 

2007

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 49 - 09/25/2007

Hot News

On September 19th, 2007, SAP's CEO Henning Kagermann unveiled the company's entirely new business software solution SAP Business ByDesign™ for the midsize market. Amongst others, the new product breaks new grounds with respect to user experience. (Read more on www.sap.com)

We will provide you with more information about the user interface of SAP's new product in the near future.

In addition, we would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

Books & People

We published a new book review Universal Usability (edited by Jonathan Lazar) and a tabular overview of the book.

Outlook: We intend to publish two more articles related to universal usability in the remainder of this year

Goodies

We resumed the good old practice of offering photo motives for the Desktop:

• Skies from Southern France 2007
• Mostly Swedish Skies - Part 1
• Mostly Swedish Skies - Part 2

Further Updates and Changes

We made a couple of further updates to the site, and also moved the Goodies as well as articles on SAP's GUI history to a new Goodies section of its own.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 48 - 07/25/2007

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

Editorials

We published a new editorial: The Logic of the Illogic...

Books & People

We published a new book review Effective Prototyping for Software Makers and a summary of the book.
The book was written by SAP User Experience colleagues Jonathan Arnowitz and Michael Arent, together with Nevin Berger from Ziff Davies Media.

Further Updates

We made a couple of further updates to the site. Among others, we added a new rule to the Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces, a new quote to our collection of quotes, and, last but not least, a new person to our list of featured UI professionals. There are also several new book presentations on our Books & People page.

Finally, we would like to remind you our our RSS feed, which offers more up-to-date news than our site news and newsletters (see our RSS page for details).

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 47 - 06/28/2007

New Design

The design of the SAP Design Guild Website was adapted to the new sap.com design.

US Participant Recruitment Page

The US Participant Recruitment Page is up again.
You can register now to be involved in upcoming user research activities again.

Stories Section

• Participant Groks Usability at ASUG 2007 Annual Conference
• Breaking Down Barriers

Books & People

We published a new book review Designing Information Dashboards and a Summary of the Book.

Resources

We restructured the Resources section and moved all outdated UI guidelines and papers to the Resources Archive. New guidelines will be published as soon as these are released to the public.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 46 - 05/23/2007

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

Stories Section

• Innovationsform Interaktionsdesign, Potsdam, Germany
• SAP's Presence at CHI 2007 in San Jose, California - A Photo Story
• SAP User Experience at ASUG/SAPPHIRE 2007
• Breaking Down Barriers (Hürden überwinden); English version will be published soon

SAP Design Guild Newsfeed

Since the CHI 2007 conference, we offer a newsfeed service: http://www.sapdesignguild.org/rss/newsfeed.xml

In order to use our newsfeed service, you need a newsreader application or an RSS-enabled Web browser.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 45 - 04/12/2007

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

Books & People Section

The Books & People section features two new reviews of the following books:

• How Designers Think by Bryan Lawson
• Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge

Editorials

We would like to remind you that SAP has once more become a Champion Sponsor to CHI conference and will have a booth, where you can meet and talk with SAP's usability professionals.

Read our editorial for more information about SAP's presence:

• SAP at CHI2007 - San Jose, California

Further Updates

There are a few updates on our events and accessibility pages.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 44 - 02/26/2007

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website.

Books & People Section

The Books & People section features a review of the following book:

• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman

Editorials

• To Err is Human - A Two-Sided Issue...

Further Updates

• We prepared our Events page for 2007
• We added a few new Quotes Found for You
• We updated the article list of the SAP Design Guild Website

SAP Sponsor to CHI 2007

We're happy to announce that SAP has become again a Champion Sponsor to CHI 2007. The CHI 2007 conference on human factors in computing systems, the world's largest conference in the UI field, will be held in San Jose, California, USA, from April 28 - May 3, 2007.

See all CHI 2007 Sponsors: http://www.chi2007.org/sponsor/sponsors.php

 

2006

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 43 - 12/21/2006

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website.

Editions Section

We are proud to publish a new "special edition" on SAP User Experience. It is a mixture of already published and new articles showing the work and principles of SAP User Experience. This is an open edition that will grow in the course of the next year. So please stop by from time to time and look for new additions.

Books & People Section

The Books & People section features a review of the following books:

• The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda (reviewed by Kostanija Petrovic, SAP)

Resources: Accessibility

• Accessibility for Enterprise Software - Architecture and Constraints
• Update: Front-End Requirements and Infrastructure for Accessibility (Version 3.0)

Stories

• World Usability Day 2006: Making Life Easy (Silke Ecker, SAP)
• World Usability Day 2006 - "Making Life Easy" (Gerd Waloszek, SAP)

Happy Holidays and all the best in the New Year, Gerd & Christine

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 42 - 10/31/2006

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The Books & People section features a new UI person and reviews of the following books:
  International Handbook of Creativity, by James C. Kaufman & Robert J. Sternberg (Eds.) (reviewed by Mark Detweiler, SAP)
  Hertzian Tales, by Anthony Dunne (reviewed by Gerd Waloszek, SAP)
• In "Design Tidbits," we published The Software Works the Way I Think: Beyond Point and Click (by Hendrik Achenbach, SAP)
• There is a new editorial about the World Usability Day at SAP:
  Make Yourself Useful on the 14th of November, 2006 - Celebrate The World Usability

In order to streamline SAP's UI-related forum offerings and because of permanent intrusion of SPAM entries, we closed the SAP Design Guild forum. For UI-related questions, please use one of the SAP Developers Networks (SDN) forums. These forums are moderated. Particularly, we recommend the following two SDN forums:

• User Experience & Design
  This forum is a key collaboration channel for SAP, customers and partners to ask questions and share knowledge in the areas of user experience and design surrounding SAP NetWeaver and composite application development. Enjoy and we look forward to hearing from you.
• SAP GUI
  This is the forum to discuss questions about SAP GUI for Windows and Java, the Web Dynpro clients for Windows and Java and automation and testing of applications using eCATT and the Scripting API.

Please note that using the SDN forums requires a free registration. In case, you are not transferred to the requested forum after registration, please click the link to the forum once again.

User Experience Events

• World Usability Day (WUD):
  The agenda and registration information for the regional World Usability Day event on November 14, 2006 at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany can be found on the German WUD Homepage.
• User Friendly 2006:
  SAP has become a Diamond-Level Sponsor to the User Friendly 2006 conference in Hangzhou, China. This conference, held by DDF.UPA, China, brings together usability practitioners, designers and technologists from across China and internationally. Keynote speaker will be Dan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President for User Experience, SAP AG.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 41 - 09/10/2006

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The Books & People section features a new review of the following book:
  Universal Principles of Design, by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, & Jill Butler (reviewed by Joachim Sander, SAP)
• In "Stories," we published a case study and an article about the SAP User-Centered Design Process (originally published in Interactions magazine):
  Multimodal Warehouse Application
• User-Centered Design Success Story: SAP Analytics Customer Validation Project
  The "Resources" sections offers two new documents:
  The SAP User-Centered Design Process
  Accessibility Guidelines for ABAP Dynpro
• There is a new editorial:
  Your Doctor Says: Usable Applications Are Good for Your Health!

User Experience Events

• World Usability Day (WUD):
  The agenda and registration information for the regional World Usability Day event on November 14, 2006 at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany can be found on the German WUD Homepage.
• User Friendly 2006:
  SAP has become a Diamond-Level Sponsor to the User Friendly 2006 conference in Hangzhou, China. This conference, held by DDF.UPA, China, brings together usability practitioners, designers and technologists from across China and internationally. Keynote speaker will be Dan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President for User Experience, SAP AG.
• Germany, Land of Ideas, Wednesday, 04.10.2006, Fachhochschule Potsdam - Studiengang Interface Design - IDL Interaction Design Lab, Potsdam: Annual presentation, exhibit with technical lectures
  Dr. Gerd Waloszek & Christine Wiegand, SAP User Experience were invited to be the keynote speakers of this event. More information about this event can be found on the Germany Land of Ideas Website.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 40 - 07/11/2006

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The Books & People section features a new UI person (Aaron Marcus) and two new reviews of the following books:
  Writing Effective Use cases, by Alistair Cockburn (reviewed by Lucy Dobler, SAP)
  Systemisches Design, by Cyrus D. Khazaeli (in German) (reviewed by Joachim Sander, SAP)
• In "Stories," we published a CHI 2006 report and an article about the SAP User-Centered Design Process (published in SAP World magazine, too):
  CHI 2006 - A Selective Reflection
  Art and Science of Usability
• We added an alphabetically ordered list of all SAP Design Guild articles – now finding articles should be much easier.

We're happy to announce that SAP has become a Sponsor to Mensch & Computer Conference, and will organize a regional World Usability Day (WUD) event at the SAP headquarters in Walldorf, Germany together with Kuehlhaus AG, and two other companies/organizations.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 39 - 04/20/2006

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• In "Editorials," we published an article about "SAP at CHI2006 - Montréal, Québec, Canada"
• The Stories section features a new article which was originally published in the Interactions magazine "Working as a Designer in a Global Team"

In addition, our Website appears in a new design which more closely resembles the sap.com Website.

As already announced in our last newsletter, SAP has become a Champion Sponsor to CHI 2006 and will have an exhibit booth there. The CHI2006 conference on human factors in computing systems will be held in Montréal, Canada, next week (April 24-27, 2006). The motto of this year's CHI is: "Interact. Inform. Inspire."

Among other topics, SAP presents its user-centered design process. Professionals in user experience will be available at our booth to discuss UI topics and career opportunities at SAP.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 38 - 03/10/2006

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The Books & People section features a new UI person (Bruce Tognazzini) and three new reviews of the following books:
  Designing the User Interface, by Catherine Plaisant & Ben Shneiderman
  Understanding Your Users, by Catherine Courage & Kathy Baxter
  Shaping Things, by Bruce Sterling
• In "Editorials," we published an article about "The Blessings of Large Displays"
• The Process and Archive parts of the Resources section have been restructured; a new "SAP User-Centered Design" page and a User Experience Glossary have been published
• In response to a visitor's request, we published our first audio article "From GUIs to Narrative Interfaces - From Point-and-Click to Computers Telling Stories" (an editorial from 2002)

We're happy to announce that SAP has become a Champion Sponsor to CHI 2006 in Montréal, and a Silver Sponsor to UPA 2006.

 

2005

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 37 - 12/21/2005

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The Books & People section features a new prominent UI person (Catherine Plaisant) and two new reviews of the following books:
  • Thoughtful Interaction Design, by Jonas Löwgren & Erik Stolterman
  • The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction, by Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
  • See also the Semiotic Engineering Glossary as a complement to the second review
• Our latest editorial asks a very basic usability question: What Matters Most
• Accessibility: Keyboard Control of UI Elements (German version)
• Southern Germany desktop motives published in Goodies
• SAP Enduster Testing: You can announce your interest in taking part in SAP Usability Activities in Germany and the U.S.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 36 - 10/26/2005

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The Books & People section features three new reviews of the following books:
  • In the Bubble, by John Thackara
  • A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink
  • Participatory IT Design, by Ken Boedker, Finn Kensing & Jesper Simonsen
• In "Stories," we published an article about Interact 2005 conference:
  • Interact 2005 – Communicating Naturally Through Computers?

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 35 - 06/07/2005

Edition Accessibility

We are pleased to announce a new edition of the SAP Design Guild Website, featuring the topic "Accessibility." This ninth edition draws a picture of the current legislation, outlines the need for harmonized standards, and highlights our effort to incorporate accessibility into our products.

Enjoy our latest edition, Accessibility, which has been published in cooperation with SAP's Accessibility Competence Center (ACC) in Walldorf, Germany.

More Additions and Updates

• CHI 2005 – Spotting the Trends..., by Gerd Waloszek
• Norway, Greece, and Turkey desktop motives published in Goodies
• Books & People section updated

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 34 - 03/31/2005

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• Our new editorial "SAP at CHI 2005 in Portland, Oregon" offers an invitation:
  The CHI 2005 conference will take place in Portland, Oregon from April 2 to 7, 2005. SAP will be a Champion Sponsor of the conference and invites conference attendees to stop by its recruiting booth.
• The Books & People section features a new short bio of an UI professional and offers a review of the book, Technology as Experience, by John McCarthy & Peter Wright.
• In a series of two articles on capturing and editing screenshots in our Design Tidbit section, we want to help you avoid the greatest obstacles in dealing with screenshots:
  Part I looks at what screenshots can be used for and where you can get them from. It offers some general recommendations for capturing screens and ends with a plea against the use of the JPEG file format for screenshots, with illustrative examples.
  Part II briefly covers simple editing tools, comments on how to patch screens together, considers what to observe when dealing with screen text, and provides hints on batch processing and Web galleries.

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 33 - 02/14/2005

We would like to inform you of the following new additions to the SAP Design Guild Website:

• The Books & People section features a new short bio of an UI professional and offers a review of the book, Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing, by Malcolm McCullough
• New quotes in "Quotes found for You" (Books & People section)
• Update of SAP Usability Activities at ASUG Events
• English version of User Interface Patterns – Components for User Interfaces available
• Australia 2003 Part 2 and Lofoten 2004, the North Cape, and More desktop motives published in Goodies

 

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