SAP Design Guild Newsletters 2006

Updated: June 24, 2010

Newsletters: 43 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 38

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

 

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