SAP DESIGN GUILD

SAP Design Guild Newsletters 2010

Updated: December 14, 2010

Newsletters: 74 | 73 | 72 | 71 | 70 | 69 | 68 | 67

Nothing gets lost at the SAP Design Guild. Here is the archive of our newsletters from 2010.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – December 2010 (No. 74, 12/14/2010)

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

• We continued work on the 10th Anniversary Edition and published two more articles:
  • Sustainability, SAP, and Design...
  • Design is the Solution – From Visual Clarity to Clarity in the Mind
  • We plan to publish one more article about Designing for the Elderly by the end of this year, but we may have to delay it until January, as well.
• We also published a new editorial:
  • Final Spurt for 2010 on the SAP Design Guild
• We added three articles to our UI Design Blinks column:
  • Excel Strikes Back: Bye-Bye Processing – Hello Excel?
  • Processing Strikes Back: Simple Table Lenses Programmed Using Processing
  • Virtual Possessions
  • Perhaps there will be even one more UI Design Blink this year…
• We updated our events page and now display events for 2011 and 2012 on the main events page
• Finally, we added two new book presentations and applied some updates to the Books & People section

Moreover, we made a number of updates to our link pages in the Goodies section.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – November 2010 (No. 73, 11/18/2010)

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

• After a long break, we added a new article to the 10th Anniversary Edition:
  • Harmonization of International Standards and Guidelines as a Basis for the Inclusion of Everyone
• We also published a new photo page in our Stories section
  • SAP's Presence at World Usability Day 2010 – A Photo Story
• We added two articles to our UI Design Blinks column
  • Annotators Not Welcome in the Age of Ebooks
  • Bye-Bye Excel – Hello Processing!
• We published two new book reviews in the Books & People section:
  • Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson (appendix)
  • Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL by Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, and Marc Smith (appendix)

SAP UX Activities

• Once again, we would like to draw your attention to SAP User Experience’s worldwide hiring initiative. Please take a look at our page with job offers and feel free to forward this information to possible applicants.
• SAP UX will also be present at a number of job events at universities in Germany (Münster, Köln, Potsdam)

Outlook

In addition, we are still busy preparing new articles (to be published in December) for the 10th Anniversary Edition.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – September/October 2010 (No. 72, 10/21/2010)

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

• We published two new articles in the Stories section:
  • SAP's Presence at DIS 2010 in Aarhus, Denmark – A Photo Story
  • DIS 2010 – A UI Design Practitioner's Report
• We added six new quotes to our Quotes for You page
• Last but not least, we introduced a new column with short, blog-like articles (but not a blog…) called UI Design Blinks:
  • We started the column with three articles (overview); a fourth article was published just recently
• Furthermore, we will soon publish a new book review in the Books & People section:
  • Book review: Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson (appendix)
    The review will be out next week – please check the site from time to time.

SAP UX Conference/Event Activities

SAP User Experience will sponsor and take part in the following conferences and events:

• World Usability Day 2010, November 11, 2010, local event in Stuttgart, Germany (gold sponsor, recruiting booth)
• DMMK Young Professionals 2010, November 13, 2010, in Stuttgart, Germany (silver sponsor, recruiting booth)
• SAP UX will also be present at a number of job events at universities in Germany (Heidelberg, Münster, Köln, Potsdam)
• Once again, we would like to draw your attention to SAP User Experience’s worldwide hiring initiative. Please take a look at our page with job offers and feel free to forward this information to possible applicants.

Outlook

We have still two book reviews in our pipeline (Presentation Zen Design by Garr Reynolds, preliminary review page; Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL by Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, and Marc Smith, preliminary review page). We hope to publish the latter in the beginning of November.

In addition, we are still busy preparing new articles for the 10th Anniversary Edition, but it will take until November/December before we will be able to publish them.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – July/August 2010 (No. 71, 08/10/2010)

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

• We published two new articles in the Stories section:
  • SAP User Experience Conference in China 2010
  • Beyond Clicking: Successful 2010 SAP User Experience Conference in Shanghai – the report about the conference that was announced in the first article
• Furthermore, we published two new book reviews in the Books & People section and added a new book presentation:
  • Book review: The Art of Seeing by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi & Rick E. Robinson
  • Book review: Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable by Nathan Shedroff
  • Book presentation: Storytelling for User Experience by Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks
• Finally, we would like to once again draw your attention to SAP User Experience's worldwide hiring initiative. Please take a look at our newly updated page with job offers and feel free to forward this information to possible applicants.

SAP UX Conference/Event Activities

SAP User Experience will sponsor and/or take part in the following conferences and events:

• DIS 2010, from August 18-20, 2010, in Aarhus, Denmark (sponsor, recruiting booth)
• Mensch & Computer, from September 12-15, 2010, in Duisburg Germany (silver sponsor)
• World Usability Day 2010, November 11, 2010, local event in Stuttgart, Germany (gold sponsor, recruiting booth)
• DMMK Young Professionals 2010, November 13, 2010, in Stuttgart, Germany (silver sponsor, recruiting booth)

SAP UX Usability Activities

SAP User Experience will sponsor Usability Testcenters at the following events:

• 11th DSAG annual congress (11. DSAG-Jahreskongress): September 21-23, Nuremberg, Germany
• ASUG Fall Focus & SAP BusinessObjects: October 4-7, Orlando, FL, USA
• SAP TechEd Europe: October 12-14, Berlin, Germany

Outlook

We have still one book review in our pipeline (Presentation Zen Design by Garr Reynolds; preliminary review page).

In addition, we are busy preparing new articles for the 10th Anniversary Edition, but it will take a while before we will be able to publish them.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – May/June 2010 (No. 70, 06/25/2010)

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

• We published two new articles in the Stories section:
  • SAP's Presence at Usability Professionals' Association International Conference 2010 in Munich, Germany – A Photo Story
  • iKitchen, a co-publication contributed by Frank Reichert, Fabian Kraft & Thomas Hirt
• We also published an editorial announcing SAP's presence at the UPA 2010 conference:
  • SAP User Experience at UPA 2010
• Furthermore, we updated the Books & People section with three new profiles, two new book presentations, and a number of other changes such as new additions to our book and people lists.
  • Featured UI and Design People
  • Featured Books
• Our newsletter archive has been restructured, and there are also some minor updates regarding the info area and on the sitemap.
• Finally, we would like to draw your attention to the current worldwide hiring initiative at SAP User Experience. Please take a look at our page with job offers and feel free to forward this information to possible applicants.

Outlook

We have three book reviews in our pipeline (Presentation Zen Design, by Garr Reynolds, Design is the Problem, by Nathan Shedroff, and The Art of Seeing, by Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi & Rick E. Robinson). We hope to publish the last one in the near future – so please check the preliminary review page).

In addition, we are preparing new articles for the 10th Anniversary Edition.

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – April (No. 69, 04/27/2010)

First, we would like to inform you that the SAP Design Guild Website celebrates its 10th anniversary in April 2010. In an editorial, long-time team members Christine Ronnewinkel and Gerd Waloszek provide a quick summary of the history of the site as well as a brief outlook with regard to its future and thank all their visitors for their long-standing support:

• 10th Anniversary of the SAP Design Guild

Furthermore, we would like to inform you of the following additions to the Website:

• We added one new book review to our Books & People section:
  • Biomimicry (by Janine Benyus)
• We also added a new article to our Stories section:
  • The Promise of Using UI Patterns For Large Software Packages Revisited

Last, but not least, we would like to inform you of the following SAP User Experience sponsoring activities (SAP UI News):

• SAP will be a Platinum Sponsor to Usability Professionals’ Association International Conference 2010 in Munich, Germany. Dan Rosenberg, SVP SAP User Experience, will have an invited talk at the conference, titled Global Sustainability: Fit or Misfit for HCI?.
• SAP was a contributing sponsor to CHI 2010 in Atlanta, GA, USA

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – February/March 2010 (No. 68, 03/03/2010)

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

• The SAP Design Guild team is proud to present a new edition, commemorating upcoming the 10th anniversary of the Website in April, 2010:
  • 10th Anniversary Edition – please note that this will be a "cumulative" edition!
  • Leading article covering the history of SAP Design Guild editions and highlight topics
• We also published a new editorial that announces the edition:
  • Announcing the 10th Anniversary Edition
• We added two new book reviews to our Books & People section
  • Presentation Zen (by Garr Reynolds)
  • Design Research (Ed. Brenda Laurel)
• We updated the Books & People section with two new book presentations, and a number of other changes.
• We also updated and rearranged the SAP's UI history area in the Goodies section:
  • In particular, we added a new overview page
• We further updated our page listing UI events with a few more events in 2010: UI Events: Conferences, Workshops, and More
• Finally, we added a number of new quotes to our "quotes page: Quotes Found for You

 

SAP Design Guild Newsletter – January 2010 (No. 67, 01/20/2010)

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

• We published three new pages with desktop motives in the Goodies section:
  • DSLR macros and close-ups
  • Digicam macros and close-ups – Part 1
  • Digicam macros and close-ups – Part 2
• We updated our page listing UI events to accommodate events in 2010: UI Events: Conferences, Workshops, and More
• We also added four new quotes to our "quotes" page: Quotes Found for You
• Last, but not least, we updated the Books & People section with a new profile, a new book presentation, and a number of other changes.

 

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