SAP Design Guild Newsletters 2004

Updated: June 24, 2010

Newsletters: 32 | 31 | 30 | 29 | 28

Nothing gets lost at the SAP Design Guild. Here is the archive of our newsletters from 2004.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 32 - 11/22/2004

Edition User Productivity

We are pleased to announce a new edition of the SAP Design Guild Website, featuring the topic User Productivity.
This eighth edition focuses on user productivity in general, and on SAP's User Productivity group that cares for it, in particular.

The overview page of the new edition presents a brief introduction and links to all of this edition's articles.

The first section is introduced by our leading article More Than Just a Pretty Interface featuring an interview with Matthias Vering, Vice President, User Productivity at SAP. He talks on how fresh solution designs help SAP customers' employees work more productively. The leading article is complemented with articles on the notion of a user-friendly enterprise, the cooperation between SAP and its American user group, ASUG, the Contextual Design approach by Karen Holtzblatt and Hugh Beyer, and how increased user productivity helps to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

The second section is devoted to the teams within the User Productivity group itself and their main topic areas. This section is introduced by an overview article that briefly presents the teams. Further articles cover the individual teams and their missions. Then there is an article presenting UI First, SAP's new way of placing users at the center of the design process, and another one on SAP's groundbreaking, pattern-based approach to building user interfaces efficiently. The edition is rounded off with three articles on innovative approaches to user interfaces and usability testing.

We hope that you will find our selection of articles interesting, and, as always, we look forward to hearing your comments.

Enjoy our latest edition, User Productivity, which has been published in cooperation with SAP INFO and SAP INFO Online. Read also our new editorial, which focuses on the edition.

More Additions and Updates

  • Frontend Requirements and Infrastructure for Accessibility added to Resources
  • Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces added to Design Tidbits
  • Australia 2003 – Part 1 desktop motives published in Goodies

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 31 - 09/28/2004

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

  • We published a new Story on an ethnographic study by Dr. Carlos Bezos Daleske, responsible for Corporate Development at DaimlerChrysler Espana Holding: Knowledge and Innovation in Administrative Areas – Part I; Part II
  • The Books & People section features a new short bio of Rolf Molich and offers a review of the book, A Guide to Managing Knowledge: Cultivating Communities of Practice, by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder
  • On the new Quotes Found for You page we collect the quotes from people of the UI and graphic design field
  • What else is new in the Resources section: Minor updates to SAP R/3 Icons, SAP Reference Lists, Optical Illusions, and SAP R/3 Style Guide
  • Lofoten desktop motives published in Goodies

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 30 - 06/07/2004

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

  • CHI 2004 – A Personal Report
  • SAP's Presence at April's CHI 2004 in Vienna, Austria – A Photo Story
  • The Books & People section features a new short bio of an UI professional and offers a review of the book, Design Research: Methods and Perspectives, edited by Brenda Laurel

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 29 - 03/29/2004

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

  • Our new editorial SAP is Waiting for You – at CHI 2004, Vienna by Matthias Vering (Vice President, User Productivity, SAP AG) offers an invitation: The CHI 2004 conference will take place in Vienna from April 24 to 29, 2004, and SAP will be a Champion Sponsor of the conference.
  • We have a new design tidbit on user interface tricks:
    Have you ever wondered how Amazon can know about your interests so well or how Microsoft Office applications adapt menu items to the user's behavior? Is it magic that does these tricks or is it something trivial?
    In this article, the author offers answers to these questions and shows that magic is not needed: Adding Value to Your Interface by Using Simple Math and Matching
  • In Stories, we published a new Future Scope article:
    Professor Alexander Schill from the Technical University in Dresden, Germany, discussed context-sensitive business applications for mobile and heterogeneous environments: Future Scope – One Backend for All Platforms

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter No. 28 - 02/24/2004

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, Windows and Mirrors, by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala:
    • Book Review: Windows and Mirrors
  • Moreover, we published a list of user interface styleguides of other companies.

We are pleased to announce that SAP has become a Champion Sponsor of the CHI 2004 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. The conference will be held on April 24-29, 2004 in Vienna, Austria. The annual CHI conference is the premier international conference for human-computer interaction. This year's conference theme is CONNECT: CHI 2004 Website

Besides, the SAP Design Guild masthead received a visual face lift. This contribution was made by Peter Eckert of Projekt202, LP. Peter has supported SAP over the last 5 years with leading-edge UI design work for a number of SAP products and even the initial release of the SAP Design Guild. Learn more about Peter and Projekt202 at www.projekt202.com.

 

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