SAP DESIGN GUILD

Article List – UI Design

Last update: 10/08/2008 • Compiled and edited by the SAP Design Guild Team

On these pages, we offer a complete list of articles irrespective of the section they are located in. We list the articles by topics; articles may be assigned to several topics.

Advanced User Interfaces, Future Trends

Announcing a Project – Understanding the Role of Emotion in eLearning (Community, Stories)
From GUIs to Narrative Interfaces – From Point-and-Click to Computers Telling Stories (Community, Editorials)
Future Scope – Tangible Information (Community, Stories)
Future Scope – Communication, Coordination, and Collaboration with Intelligent Agents (Community, Stories)
Future Scope – A Networked World (Community, Stories)
Future Scope – The Post-PC Era (Community, Stories)
Innovative Interfaces Between Man and Machine – Software With Extra Likeability (Editions, Edition 8)
Narrative User Interfaces (Community, Design Tidbits)

Design, UI Design, Application Design

A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • A Layman's View on Interaction Styles – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
A Whole New Mind (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Adding Value to Your Interface by Using Simple Math and Matching (Community, Design Tidbits)
Bringing Design to Software (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Design Research (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Designing the User Interface (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Digital Ground (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Finding Common Ground... (Community, Editorials)
Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces (Community, Design Tidbits)
GUI Bloopers (Book review; Community, Books & People)
GUI Bloopers 2.0 (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Introducing Grand Design to the Digital Domain (Editions, Edition 0)
Leonardo's Laptop (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Participatory IT Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Performance – Merely A Technical Problem? (Community, Editorials)
Press On – Principles of Interaction Programming (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Selecting Objects By Attributes Part I • Selecting Objects By Attributes II (Community, Design Tidbits)
Sketching User Experiences (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Speeding UI Design Forward (Editions, Edition 0)
Stumbling Blocks for Good Application Design (Community, Editorials)
Technology as Experience (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Construction Cycle – Another Way to "Organize" the Design Process (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Design of Everyday Things (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Dilemma of Good and Bad Examples (Community, Editorials)
The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction (Book review; Community, Books & People)
The Software Works the Way I Think: Beyond Point and Click (Community, Design Tidbits)
Thoughtful Interaction Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Usability Levels – Three Ways to Care for Usability (Community, Editorials)
User Interface Controls and Interaction Techniques of Horror (Community, Design Tidbits)
Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 1 (Community, Design Tidbits)
Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 2 (Community, Design Tidbits)
What is an Application Design)? (Community, Editorials)
What Matters Most? (Community, Editorials)
Windows and Mirrors (Book review; Community, Books & People)

User Interface Patterns

Introduction to User Interface Patterns at SAP (Community, Design Tidbits)
Software Design with User Interface Patterns: Centered on the User (Community, Stories)
User Interface Patterns – Components for User Interfaces (Editions, Edition 8)

Hierarchies

Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques I (Community, Design Tidbits) • Appendix: Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Presentation Techniques II (Community, Design Tidbits)
Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Part I: Basics (Community, Design Tidbits) • Fighting (with) Hierarchies – Part II: Presentation (Community, Design Tidbits)
Hierarchies – Categories vs. Vectors (Community, Design Tidbits)

Documentation, Help

How Much Documentation Do Applications Need? – A Simple Example (Community, Design Tidbits)
Self-explanatory Web Design: How Can Portals be Designed so that they are Easy to Use and that Users Find the Information and Functionality they Need? (Editions, Edition 1)

Simplification

Anti-Simplification – How to Make Life Harder for Users (Community, Design Tidbits)
Don't Let Your Interface Lie (Community, Design Tidbits)
Don't Let Users Suffer from System Weaknesses (Community, Design Tidbits)
Error Prevention Comes First (Community, Design Tidbits)
Reducing Complexity (Community, Design Tidbits)
What Does "Simple" Mean? (Community, Design Tidbits)

Selection

Did You Make Your Selection? – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • Did You Make Your Selection? – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits) • Did You Make Your Selection? – Part III (Community, Design Tidbits) • Did You Make Your Selection? – Part IV (Community, Design Tidbits)
Selecting Objects By Attributes Part I • Selecting Objects By Attributes II (Community, Design Tidbits)

Screen Design

Screen Layout – Part I: General Considerations (Community, Design Tidbits) • Screen Layout – Part II: Layout Hierarchy (Community, Design Tidbits) • Screen Layout – Part III: Examples (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Art of Hiding – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • The Art of Hiding – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)

User Productivity

Creating the SAP Product Language (Editions, Edition 8)
Leading Article: Matthias Vering on Usability and User Productivity – More Than Just a Pretty Interface (Editions, Edition 8)
Overview Article: User Productivity Worldwide – Branding, Design, Accessibility (Editions, Edition 8)
Reducing TCO with Increased User Productivity (Editions, Edition 8)
SAP Accessibility Competence Center – Accessibility for Everyone (Editions, Edition 8)
The Usability Engineering Center at SAP – User-Friendly Software Is Not a Matter of Chance (Editions, Edition 8)
User Productivity at SAP Labs (Editions, Edition 8)

Visualization

Elements of Graph Design (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Information Dashboard Design • Book Summary (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Information Visualization (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Information Visualization, (Second Edition) (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Selecting Objects By Attributes Part I • Selecting Objects By Attributes II (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Craft of Information Visualization (Book review; Community, Books & People)
Visualization (Community, Books & People)
Visualization – New Controls and Applications (Community, Books & People)

Web, Web Design (General)

Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part I (Community, Design Tidbits) • Concept Statements and Website Messages – Part II (Community, Design Tidbits)
From Dropdown Listboxes to Comboboxes (Community, Design Tidbits)
List Box Tweaks (Part II) (Community, Design Tidbits)
The Web – A Short Introduction (Community, Design Tidbits)
Web Bloopers (Book review; Community, Books & People)

Web Application Design

An Introduction to Designing User Interface Controls at SAP (Community, Design Tidbits)
Making the Web Work (Book review; Community, Books & People)

Projects

Announcing a Project – Understanding the Role of Emotion in eLearning (Community, Stories)
Knowledge and Innovation in Administrative Areas – Part I • Knowledge and Innovation in Administrative Areas – Part II (Community, Stories)
Multimodal Warehouse Application (Community, Stories)
User Interface Design in APO (updated 07/16/2003; Community, Stories)
Working as a Designer in a Global Team (Community, Stories)

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