SAP DESIGN GUILD

SAP Design Guild Site News Archive

Last update: 09/19/2008

2008 Site News

09/19/2008: New design tidbit (Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 2)
08/11/2008: New book review (GUI Bloopers 2.0)
08/08/2008: New report about mobile interaction (Rapid User-Centered Design for Mobile Enterprise Applications)
08/08/2008: New editorial published (A Walk Through Some Buzzwords)
08/06/2008: Four new articles about SAP's new visual design in Resources (Visual Design for Business Software and three further articles)
07/18/2008: Article about the SAP CRM Web Client UI in Stories (Providing a Web-Like User Experience to Business Users – The New SAP CRM Web Client User Interface)
06/27/2008: New book review (Press On – Principles of Interaction Programming)
06/26/2008: UI Guidelines for CRM WebClient User Interface published
06/23/2008: New design tidbit (Waiting at the Computer: Busy Indicators and System Feedback – Part 1)
06/11/2008: Presentation about the Signature Design in Resources (The Signature Design – The New Visual Design for SAP Products; withdrawn on 08/06/2008 and replaced by new articles)
06/04/2008: New CHI 2008 report in Stories (CHI 2008 Report – Not Only a Rant...)
05/29/2008: Article about SAP's new visual design in Stories (A Fresh Look for a Better User Experience)
05/08/2008: New editorial (The Three Pillars of Human Performance at the Computer – Which One Fits Best?)
05/06/2008: New CHI 2008 report in Stories (CHI 2008 – Trip Report)
04/25/2008: New book review (Processing)
04/17/2008: New CHI 2008 photo story (SAP's Presence at CHI 2008 in Florence, Italy – A Photo Story)
03/31/2008: New book review (The Plenitude)
03/20/2008: Further CSUN 2008 presentation
03/12/2008: New design tidbit (User Interface Controls Interaction Techniques of Horror)
03/12/2008: CSUN 2008 presentation
03/10/2008: New design tidbit (Selecting Objects By Attributes – Part I and II)
02/21/2008: New editorial published (SAP at CHI 2008 – Florence, Italy)
02/19/2008: New accessibility guidelines (Keyboard Access for Web Dynpro for ABAP / for Java)
02/12/2008: New book review (Information Visualization, 2nd Ed.)
01/22/2008: New editorial published (Finding Common Ground...)
01/14/2008: New book review (Access by Design)

2007 Site News

12/19/2007: New editorial published (Performance – Merely a Technical Problem?)
12/10/2007: Highlight topic Universal Usability published
12/06/2007: New book review (Usability Management bei SAP-Projekten)
12/05/2007: Article about Universal Usability in Design Tidbits
11/12/2007: WUD 2007 report in Stories (World Usability Day 2007 – "Making Life Easy")
10/18/2007: New and updated accessibility guidelines
09/20/2007: New book review (Universal Usability)
09/06/2007: New desktop motives (Skies from Southern France)
08/14/2007: Part 2 part of new desktop motives (Mostly Swedish Skies – Part 2)
08/14/2007: New desktop motives (Mostly Swedish Skies – Part 1)
07/24/2007: New editorial (The Logic of the Illogic...)
07/19/2007: New book review (Effective Prototyping for Software Makers)
06/26/2007: Resources section restructured
06/22/2007: New book review (Information Dashboard Design)
06/19/2007: Site adapted to new sap.com look
06/11/2007: New story (Participant Groks Usability at ASUG 2007 Annual Conference)
05/22/2007: New story (Breaking Down Barriers)
05/10/2007: New story (SAP User Experience at ASUG/SAPPHIRE 2007!)
05/03/2007: New story (SAP's Presence at CHI 2007 in San Jose, California – A Photo Story)
04/26/2007: New story (Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign, Potsdam, Germany)
04/19/2007: Newsfeed started
03/22/2007: New book review (Designing Interactions)
03/19/2007: New book review (How Designers Think)
03/16/2007: New editorial (SAP at CHI2007 – San Jose, California)
02/14/2007: New editorial (To Err Is Human – A Two-Sided Issue...)
02/13/2007: New book review (The Design Of Everyday Things)

2006 Site News

12/21/2006: New "special edition" on SAP User Experience • New WUD article in Stories (World Usability Day 2006: Making Life Easy )
11/24/2606: New story on WUD published (World Usability Day 2006 – "Making Life Easy")
11/14/2006: Frontend Requirements and Infrastructure for Accessibility updated
11/13/2006: Accessibility for Enterprise Software – Architecture and Constraints published
11/06/2006: New book review published (The Laws of Simplicity)
10/27/2006: New design tidbit (The Software Works The Way I Think: Beyond Point and Click) and new editorial (Make Yourself Useful on November 14, 2006 – Celebrate The World Usability Day) published
10/25/2006: New book review published (Hertzian Tales)
10/24/2006: New book review published (The International Handbook of Creativity)
10/23/2006: Forum closed
09/08/2006: New editorial published (Your Doctor Says: Usable Applications Are Good for Your Health!)
08/30/2006: SAP UCD Overview and UCD success story (User-Centered Design Success Story: SAP Analytics Customer Validation Project) published
08/29/2006: New book review published (Universal Principles of Design)
08/28/2006: New story on a multimodal warehouse application published (Multimodal Warehouse Application)
07/17/2006: Accessibility Guidelines for ABAP Dynpro published
07/06/2006: New book review published (Writing Effective Use Cases) • Complete article list available
06/26/2006: CHI 2006 report published in Stories (CHI 2006 – A Selective Reflection...)
06/23/2006: Article on User Experience and SAP UCD published in Stories (The Art and Science of Usability)
05/11/2006: New book review published (Systemisches Design )
04/12/2006: New story on global teams published (Working as a Designer in a Global Team)
04/11/2006: New editorial published (SAP at CHI2006 – Montréal, Québec, Canada)
03/22/2006: New Design published
03/09/2006: New book review published (Shaping Things ) • Book & People section updated
02/23/2006: First audio article (From GUIs to Narrative Interfaces – From Point-and-Click to Computers Telling Stories)
02/09/2006: New book review published (Understanding Your Users)
02/07/2006: New editorial published (The Blessings of Large Displays... )
02/03/2006: User-Centered Design page and User Experience Glossary published • Process and Archive parts of Resources restructured
01/16/2006: New book review published (Designing the User Interface)

2005 Site News

12/21/2005: New book review published (Thoughtful Interaction Design ) • Semiotic Engineering Glossary added to Resources
12/16/2005: Keyboard Control of UI Element (German Version) added to Resources • New book review published
12/15/2005: New editorial published (What Matters Most?)
12/06/2005: New desktop motives added to Goodies (Southern Germany)
10/26/2005: New book review published (In the Bubble)
10/12/2005: Personal INTERACT 2005 report published in Stories (INTERACT 2005 – Communicating Naturally Through Computers?)
07/15/2005: New book review published (A Whole New Mind)
06/13/2005: New book review published (Participatory IT Design), Books & People section updated
06/07/2005: Edition on Accessibility published
05/25/2005: Personal CHI 2005 report published in Stories (CHI 2005 – Spotting the Trends ...)
04/29/2005: Norway, Greece, and Turkey desktop motives published in Goodies
03/31/2005: New Editorial published (SAP at CHI 2005 in Portland, Oregon)
03/24/2005: New book review published (Technology as Experience), Books & People section updated
02/22/2005: Article series on capturing and editing screenshots added to Design Tidbits (Part I • Part II)
02/10/2005: New book review published (Digital Ground), Books & People section updated
01/31/2005: Lofoten 2004 desktop motives published in Goodies

2004 Site News

12/09/2004: Edition article User Interface Patterns – Components for User Interfaces updated, English version available
12/06/2004: SAP Usability Activities at ASUG Events updated
12/03/2004: Australia 2003 – Part 2 desktop motives published in Goodies
11/19/2004: Edition on User Productivity published • New Editorial published
10/26/2004: Australia 2003 – Part 1 desktop motives published in Goodies
10/21/2004: Frontend Requirements and Infrastructure for Accessibility added to Resources
10/18/2004: Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces added to Design Tidbits
09/28/2004: New book review published, Books & People section updated
09/14/2004: New Story on an ethnographic study published in two parts (Part II)
09/07/2004: Quotes Found for You added to Books & People section
08/17/2004: Minor updates to SAP R/3 Icons and SAP Reference Lists (Resources)
08/16/2004: Minor updates to SAP R/3 Style Guide and Optical Ilusions (Resources)
07/23/2004: Lofoten desktop motives published in Goodies
06/07/2004: New Story published
05/13/2004: New Story published • New book review published, Books & People section updated
03/26/2004: New Editorial published
03/13/2004: New Future Scope article published in Stories
03/10/2004: New Design Tidbit on user interface tricks published
02/18/2004: New book review, Books & People section updated

2003 Site News

12/08/2003: Books & People section updated
12/02/2003: Second design tidbit on interaction styles published
11/24/2003: Article on IT Architectures added to Edition on Composite Applications
11/21/2003: New Future Scope article published in Stories
11/20/2003: New design tidbit on user interface patterns published
11/19/2003: Article on ASUG activities updated
11/14/2003: Updates to Books & People in the Community section
11/11/2003: New design tidbit added to Community section
11/10/2003: Article on Next Practices added to Edition on Composite Applications
11/06/2003: New editorial published
11/05/2003: Minor redesign of homepage and overview pages
10/31/2003: Article on Web Services added to Edition on Composite Applications
10/23/2003: Article list added to Info Area
10/20/2003: New edition on composite applications published
10/10/2003: New book review and infos added to Books & People in the Community section
10/09/2003: New design tidbit added to Community section
09/17/2003: New book review and infos added to Books & People in the Community section
09/12/2003: New design tidbit on controls and new Stories article on the third Future Scope lecture added to Community section
09/03/2003: List of Acronyms added to Info Area
08/28/2003: New design tidbit and a book review added to Community section
08/21/2003: SAP Style Guide for PDA Applications updated (Resources)
07/24/2003: New editorial and two book reviews added to Community section
07/16/2003: SAP Style Guide for PDA Applications updated (Resources; formely White-collar PDA guidelines)
06/13/2003: Two new book reviews added to Books & People
06/02/2003: New article Future Scope – A Networked World in Stories
05/20/2003: New report CHI 2003 – New Horizons, But What Are They? in Stories • New Books and People corner in Community • Readers' Contributions renamed into Stories
05/05/2003: New article on SAP Usability Activities at ASUG Events (2003 version) in Readers' Contributions
04/29/2003: New article on User Interface Patterns in Readers' Contributions
04/24/2003: Books in the Goodies section updated
03/20/2003: New editiorial on three years SAP Design Guild published
03/18/2003: Minor updates to SAP Usability Glossary, SAP Web Glossary and Color Glossary
03/14/2003: Branding Glossary added to Goodies
03/10/2003: New design tidbit on Narrative User Interfaces published
02/21/2003: New edition on branding published
02/11/2003: SAP Style Guide for White-Collar Worker PDAs and SAP Style Guide for Blue-Collar Worker PDAs published
01/17/2003: New design tidbit on documentation published

2002 Site News

12/11/2002: New editiorial on creativity published
11/22/2002: SAP R/3 Icons updated
11/21/2002: New editorial and Readers's Contribution article on narrative user interfaces • Optical illusions updated
11/05/2002: Icons moved from SAP Reference Lists to SAP R/3 Icons
10/31/2002: New article in Collaboration Edition (Aventis)
10/30/2002: New design and structure published • Two new articles in Collaboration Edition (Fraunhofer, SAP)
10/16/2002: SAP Reference Lists updated
09/12/2002: New edition "Collaboration – Working Efficiently in a Complex Network of People and Information " published • SAP Collaboration Glossary added to Goodies
07/31/2002: Form layout added to SAP HTMLB Guidelines
07/26/2002: SAP Icon Style Guide updated
07/23/2002: New Readers' Contribution: Announcing a Project: Understanding the Role of Emotion in eLearning
07/09/2002: A newcomer's CHI 2002 report in Readers' Contributions • New and updated design process papers published
07/01/2002: New design tidbit: Screen Layout – Part III: Examples • New editorial on the findings from the SAP Design Guild Survey published
06/17/2002: Changed top navigation: Editions now subsumed into top section for ease of navigation
06/05/2002: New CHI 2002 report and updated ASUG article in Readers' Contributions
05/23/2002: SAP iView Guidelines published (new version)
05/02/2002: SAP Design Guild Survey published: From May 2 to May 24 you have the chance to win a book and tell us your opinion about the SAP Design Guild
04/18/2002: Anniversary editorial published • Two new Design Tidbits articles published: "The Art of Hiding - Part 2" and a second article on layout
04/11/2002: SAP Portals HTMLB Guidelines published
04/05/2002: Updates of Color Glossary, SAP Usability Glossary, and SAP Web Glossary • Newsletter Archive published
03/28/2002: New article on ASUG 2002 usability activities in "Readers Contributions" • New Design Tidbits article "The Art of Hiding"
03/20/2002: New design tidbits article on layout published
03/15/2002: SAP links page added
03/04/2002: Sitemap design changed to a linear, more accessible one
02/14/2002: Fourth edition of the SAP Design Guild on "Accessibility" published in cooperation with the ACC at SAP Labs in Palo Alto • New editorial
02/13/2002: New article in "Readers Contributions"
02/11/2002: "Info Area" introduced in "Home & Services" - new elements are: "Top 10 Quick Tips", "FAQs"
02/01/2002: Redesigned version externally available

2001 Site News

12/07/2001: Redesigned version internally available
10/19/2001: Print versions (PDF) for guidelines available
09/01/2001: New section "Community" published
07/26/2001: An introduction to perception added to Optical Illusions
07/16/2001: Information on Software Accessibility for Users with Disabilities (508) published
07/04/2001: New SAP MiniApp Guidelines for Java published (replace current MiniApp Guidelines)
07/27/2001: Software-Ergonomie '99 Website (German) added to Goodies
07/26/2001: A list of all major events on usability and user interface design added
08/21/2001: New articles in Section Opinion
07/27/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion"
06/29/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion"
06/29/2001: Three new articles added to Section "Innovation"
06/08/2001: Third edition published in Section "Innovation"
05/18/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion"
05/08/2001: Preliminary Quick Guide to Simplification added to Goodies
04/27/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion" (last additions on 03/30/2001)
03/30/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion" (last additions on 03/09/2001)
03/09/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion" (last additions on 02/16/2001)
03/05/2001: R/3 icon lists added to SAP Reference Lists
02/19/2000: English Version of "Berichtswesen - Vereinigung von Gegensätzen" (Innovation) article available
02/16/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion" (last additions on 01/26/2001)
02/13/2001: New function key norm added to SAP Reference Lists
01/31/2001: SAP Reference Lists published
01/31/2001: Recommendations for Charts and Graphics published
01/26/2001: New articles in Section "Opinion" (last additions on 12/22/2000)
01/12/2001: New "Goody": Optical Illusions
01/11/2001: Interaction Design Guide for Touchscreen Applications published

2000 Site News

12/22/2000: Second edition of the SAP Design Guild featuring articles on "Reporting" published
12/20/2000: SAP R/3 Mini Style Guide published
01/19/2001: Technical changes may cause temporary page access problems: Read more...
12/22/2000: New articles in Section "Opinion" (last additions on 12/01/2000)
12/08/2000: New "Goody": Color Glossary
12/01/2000: Guidelines for capitalization added to SAP Interaction Design Guide for Internet Application Components
11/13/2000: New "Goody": SAP Web Glossary
12/01/2000: New articles in Section "Opinion" (last additions on 11/17/2000)
11/13/2000: Quick Guide to Creating Information-Oriented Web Sites published
10/27/2000: "Goodies" for you... (SAP Usability Glossary, Links and Books)
10/27/2000: New articles in Section "Opinion" (previous additions 10/10/2000 and 09/18/2000)
10/10/2000: New articles in Section "Opinion" (previous additions 09/18/2000)
09/01/2000: Section "Opinion" open
09/01/2000: Section "Forum" open
08/21/2000: MiniApp Guidelines and Web Guidelines Contact usd
08/01/2000: WAP Guidelines published
08/01/2000: New SAP Design Guild Edition published in section "Innovation"

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