http://www.sapdesignguild.org/rss/ SAP Design Guild News en-us (c) SAP AG, Germany Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:00:00 GMT Design for the elderly has become a prominent topic at UI and design conferences in recent years. On the SAP Design Guild, it has not been covered yet specifically - only in the context of universal usability. This is our author's very first article about this topic, and therefore he will focus on getting a foothold in the domain. He will look for aspects that define and drive design activities in support of elderly people. Personal references from conference visits and a few personal experiences with old people are included to spice this article up a little. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/design_elderly.asp Tue, 14 Dec 2010 9:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Virtual Possessions http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_01.asp#virtual_poss Fri, 10 Dec 2010 11:30:00 GMT As 2010 draws to a close, the SAP Design Guild Website publishes a small wave of articles for its 10th Anniversary Edition. In this editorial, our author would like to touch briefly on the challenges we faced with the anniversary edition in the summer, spend a few words on the newly published articles, and provide a brief outlook on the 10th Anniversary Edition in 2011. Then he will take the opportunity to direct your attention to a new section on the SAP Design Guild, the UI Design Blinks, which has not been covered in an editorial yet. He will close this editorial with a glimpse at the first ideas for the SAP Design Guild Website in 2011. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_04_2010.asp Tue, 7 Dec 2010 14:30:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Mikde Kuniavsky: Smart Things – Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:00:00 GMT In 2009, SAP introduced a marketing campaign that promoted the concepts of " clear enterprises " and " clarity. " Interestingly, SAP's marketing campaign did not make any mention of one team in its organization whose job it is to strive for clarity, albeit at a different level: SAP User Experience (SAP UX). Therefore, our author would like to use this article to approach clarity from a UI design point of view, as SAP UX does. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/clarity.asp Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:15:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Processing Strikes Back: Simple Table Lenses Programmed Using Processing http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_01.asp#tablelens Wed, 1 Dec 2010 09:00:00 GMT Sustainability has been a prominent topic in the " real " world for decades, but has also become more visible in the HCI community in recent years. For our author, however, sustainability is a fairly new topic in the context of UI design: His recent review of Nathan Shedroff's book Design is the Problem constituted his first encounter with it. With this more personal article, he continues his sustainability engagement in the UI design field on the SAP Design Guild. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/sust.asp Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Don A. Norman: Living with Complexity. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Thu, 25 Nov 2010 13:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Excel Strikes Back: Hello Excel - Bye-Bye Processing? http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_01.asp#excel2 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:00:00 GMT We added a page with photos from the local World Usability Day event in Stuttgart, Germany. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_wud2010-2.asp Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:30:00 GMT The World Usability Day 2010 was held in cooperation with UPA on November 11, 2010 at numerous locations all over the world. In this report, we offer photos from SAP UX activities at the local events at Stuttgart and Mannheim, Germany. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_wud2010.asp Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:30:00 GMT Finally, we added a new article to our 10th Anniversary Edition. This article introduces a new aspect of the general topic of " inclusion of everyone " : the global harmonization of standards and guidelines to ensure a barrier-free life for future generations. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/acc.asp Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column: Bye-Bye Excel - Hello Processing! http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_01.asp#excel Fri, 12 Nov 2010 13:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column: Annotators Not Welcome in the Age of Ebooks. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_01.asp#acrobat Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:00:00 GMT When our author attended a Web 2.0 symposium at the University of Bonn, Germany, in late 2006, the conference speaker who impressed him most was Marc Smith. Smith, who was working at Microsoft Research at the time, used beautiful graphs (probably bubble charts) to visualize social media networks that were derived from analyses of bulletin boards at Microsoft. This summer, some four years later, Ben Shneiderman drew our author's attention to a new book that he had co-authored with Marc Smith and Derek Hansen: Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL . Like Shneiderman, Hansen is a member of the HCIL, the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland. Once again, social media networks and Marc Smith were brought into our author's focus. The title suggests that the book is primarily about NodeXL , a tool for analyzing social networks. As we will see in the course of the review, this is only partly true. The book could actually be regarded as three books in one. But readers get much more than just three books inside one cover: They can also obtain the tool in question free of charge, because NodeXL is available in the Open Source community. What more could you want? Our author will come back to this question in his conclusion. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_ana_sm_nw.asp Wed, 27 Oct 2010 8:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Manuel Imaz & David Benyon: Designing with Blends - Conceptual Foundations of Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Tue, 26 Oct 2010 9:00:00 GMT Our author heard of Jeff Johnson's book Designing with the Mind in Mind for the first time shortly after the UPA International Conference 2010. As the book had just been released, Johnson expected it to be available at the book stand - but it was not, as a colleague told our author. This news inspired him to include the book in our book list and publish a short presentation on the SAP Design Guild. In time, however, the book disappeared from his horizon. Recently, however, Dan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, SAP User Experience, asked him whether he had read the book - Rosenberg had just finished reading it and had also attended a presentation by Jeff Johnson about the book's topics. This brought the book back to our author's attention - he rushed to buy a copy, read it, and review it. Here is his review! http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_des_mi_mi.asp Wed, 20 Oct 2010 9:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column: A Lengthy Substantiation of Jeff Johnson's Book, Designing with the Mind in Mind. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_01.asp#mimi Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:00:00 GMT DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) is one of the smaller design conferences, typically held every other year, and intended to " address design as an integrated activity spanning technical, social, cognitive, organizational, and cultural factors. " The conference announcement continues: " It brings together professional designers, ethnographers, systems engineers, usability engineers, psychologists, design managers, product managers, academics and anyone involved in the design of interactive systems. " As these statements sound quite ambitious, our author has included a reality check of them in his very personal DIS 2010 report, which was written from a UI design practitioner's perspective. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_dis2010_gw.asp Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT Today, we extended our selection of quotes with six new quotes, three from Jeff Johnson and three from Nathan Shedroff. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/quotes.asp Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:30:00 GMT Welcome to a new column of brief, blog-like articles about various UI design topics - inspired by daily work, conference visits, books, or just everyday life experiences. The column starts with three new articles. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks.asp Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:30:00 GMT While our very personal report of the DIS 2010 conference in Aarhus, Denmark, is still in progress, the appendix with photos and references is already available. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_dis2010_2_gw.asp Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:30:00 GMT Today, we published a photo story of SAP's presence at the DIS 2010 conference in Aarhus, Denmark. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_dis2010.asp Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Thomas Erickson & David W. McDonald: HCI Remixed – Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:00:00 GMT Today, we added three more features of UI and design people: Jennifer Preece, Allison Druin, and Benjamin Bederson. All three can also be found on our people list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#people Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman, and Marc Smith: Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL. The book has also been included in our book list. It will be available at the end of August, 2010. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Fri, 6 Aug 2010 10:30:00 GMT SAP User Experience offers a number of open positions world-wide. If you are interested in working for the SAP User Experience team, take a look at our " Job Offers " page, which we updated recently. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/jobs.asp Thu, 5 Aug 2010 08:30:00 GMT In July 2010, the SAP user experience (UX) team organized the SAP User Experience Conference at Shanghai International Convention Center. Over 200 industry practitioners, university professors, and students from the UX field joined the one-day event. Drawing on years of experience in user interface (UI) design, senior members of the SAP UX team shared their insights into current business application design, illustrated with examples from SAP's state-of-the-art solutions. Experienced designers from peer companies and university researchers shared their design thinking and speculated on emerging UI technology trends, making the conference a grand gathering for the UX community in China. Read a review of the event by Jeff Zhu. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_ux_china_2010-2.asp Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:30:00 GMT In the blog on the companion Website for his new book " Design is the Problem " , author Nathan Shedroff asks: " Are you as sick of sustainability as I am? " and continues: " It seems that everywhere you turn these days, sustainability is the hot topic. While this is a good thing - and a needed one - people are already getting 'green fatigue'. " One might be tempted to ask: " So, why another book about sustainability? " Shedroff argues, and would probably counter, that " over the last 40 years, little has changed in spite of all the discussions, while the issues have increased dramatically. [...] What needs to change is that we all need to decide, now, that sustainability is a given. " Shedroff's book intends to push everyone in this direction: While it deals with the negative as well as positive impact of his own profession, design, on sustainability, it considers the impact from a broader perspective - one which might help reach such an agreement. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_design_is_problem.asp Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks: Storytelling for User Experience. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Fri, 9 Jul 2010 09:30:00 GMT The SAP User Experience conference will be held at Shanghai International Convention Center on July 17th, 2010. Dan Rosenberg and Michael Arent of SAP UX will share their 30 years of UX experience. Moreover, a reputable group of industry experts and college professors will discuss with you innovative ideas, research, and project operation in workshops and round table sessions. The SAP User Experience team will provide you with a great opportunity for UX professionals to catch the hottest topics and build connections with international experts and peers. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_ux_china_2010.asp Tue, 29 Jun 2010 12:00:00 GMT Today, we updated (and finalized) our photo story of SAP's presence at the UPA 2010 conference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_upa2010.asp Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:00:00 GMT The Art of Seeing by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Rick E. Robinson is based on a psychological study to discover what constitutes an aesthetic experience. This work is a result of interpretations from interviews conducted with several museum professionals who are primarily 'consumers' of art (as opposed to 'creators' of art) – such as curators, educators, and directors of major art collections. This approach to defining an aesthetic experience from the consumer's point of view makes the subject particularly interesting to HCI professionals, because they can draw parallels with what constitutes an aesthetic experience for " consumers " of the software they build. Not surprisingly, many of the criteria for an aesthetic experience explained in this book bear a striking similarity to the fundamental design principles and methods that lead to good user experience. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_art_seeing.asp Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:30:00 GMT Today, we added three more features of UI and design people: John Karat, John Carroll, and Mary Beth Rosson. http://wwrotap4.wdf.sap.corp:2080/community/book_people/book_people.asp#people Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:30:00 GMT In this report, Frank Reichert and Fabian Kraft, together with their supervisor Thomas Hirt, present a novel interactive kitchen system that they created as part of their studies at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. The challenge that Frank and Fabian faced was another facet of Thomas Hirt's interests: to develop visionary concepts and designs for an interactive kitchen interface. The project was a collaboration with an industry partner so the project was not only about design but also involved the entire product development life-cycle, including a market analysis on which the final design concepts were based. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_ikitchen.asp Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:30:00 GMT SAP User Experience offers further new positions at a number of locations all over the world. If you are interested in working for the SAP User Experience team, take a look at our " Job Offers " page. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/jobs.asp Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:00:00 GMT We added two new book presentations to our Books & People page: (1) Jeff Johnson: Designing with the Mind in Mind – A Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules, (2) Nathan Shedroff: Design Is the Problem. The books have also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Fri, 21 May 2010 14:30:00 GMT SAP User Experience offers a number of new positions at Walldorf/St. Leon-Rot, Germany. If you are interested in working for the SAP User Experience team in Germany, take a look at our " Job Offers " page. Participants of the UPA 2010 conference have the opportunity to get directly in contact with SAP UX members, discuss UI design topics, and inquire about the positions at the SAP booth. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/job_offers/jobs.asp Fri, 7 May 2010 12:00:00 GMT " For the first time in its history, the UPA conference will travel to the heart of Europe, " proclaims the UPA 2010 website – namely, Munich, Germany, where it will be held from May 24 to 28, 2010. And it’s also coming to the home country of SAP! While SAP is now a multinational company with more than 95,000 customers in over 120 countries, it was founded in 1972 in Walldorf, Germany, where its headquarters still reside – about 300 km (or 200 miles) from Munich. Being so close to the conference, SAP User Experience (SAP UX) feels a strong pull to participate and will do so in a number of ways. In the editorial, our authors will take a brief look at SAP UX's upcoming activities at the conference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_03_2010.asp Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:30:00 GMT In this case, study Annette Stotz and Udo Arend reflect on how a UI pattern-based design for building standard business software affects the user experience and the user-centered design process. Pattern-based design does not optimize the user experience per se. Additional factors, such as user-centered design, prototyping tools, and management support determine the success or failure of the pattern-based approach. Interweaving the factors in the right way is a prerequisite for success. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_ui_patterns.asp Mon, 20 Apr 2010 17:00:00 GMT Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best ideas and adapts them for human use. Janine Benyus is a natural sciences writer, innovation consultant, and author of several books. In " Biomimicry, " she names an emerging discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's designs and processes. Read more about her recent book in our review. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_biomimicry.asp Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:00:00 GMT Ten years ago, on April 1, 2000 the SAP Design Guild Website was opened to the public. In this editorial, long-time team members Christine Ronnewinkel and Gerd Waloszek would like to 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. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_02_2010.asp Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:30:00 GMT In less than a month's time, the SAP Design Guild Website will celebrate its 10th anniversary. The SAP Design Guild team decided to celebrate this anniversary in a special way, namely by cumulatively collecting articles in an " anniversary edition " throughout the anniversary year. In this editorial, the team announces the edition. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_01_2010.asp Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:30:00 GMT The eleventh edition of the SAP Design Guild Website is a very special one. It commemorates the upcoming 10th anniversary of the Website in April 2010 and will be our special way of celebrating this event. " Special way " means that, unlike previous editions, this one will not be published " all in one go. " Instead, it will be a " growing " or " cumulative " edition, with articles being added in the course of the anniversary year. This publication style will keep the anniversary fresh in the minds of both visitors and the SAP Design Guild team and will thus provide a neat way of celebrating and commemorating it. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/overview_edition11.asp Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:30:00 GMT Today, we updated the English and German versions on the Frontend Requirements and Infrastructure for Accessibility guideline. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/acc.asp Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:15:00 GMT We added another new book presentation to our Books & People page: Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, & Carla Faria Leitao: Presentation Zen Design – Semiotic Engineering Methods for Scientific Research in HCI. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:30:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Garr Reynolds: Presentation Zen Design – Simple Design Principles and Techniques to Enhance Your Presentations. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:30:00 GMT Have you ever sat through a presentation that was much too full of information and much too long? You could hardly look at the slides, and there was clipart that was out of context? Looking back, you can hardly remember what the presentation was about, but you know that you had the feeling someone was stealing your time. Now, imagine having a completely different experience – or even being the one to offer people that different experience! Our author came across Garr Reynolds’ book, Presentation Zen, when when she had the pleasure of listening to a couple of presentations given by a colleague that were utterly and truly different from anything she had ever seen before. Read why she likes this book. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_presentation_zen.asp Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:00:00 GMT Today, we extended our selection of quotes with four new quotes from Alan Cooper. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/quotes.asp Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:00:00 GMT Today, we extended our selection of quotes with two new quotes. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/quotes.asp Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT Brenda Laurel's book Design Research, Methods and Perspectives is on the market since 2003 and still finds new readers. Our review author read the book just recently and was impressed by it. She felt like providing a detailed review of the book, because she found it extremely important for anyone in the user experience field to read. So, have a look at the review to find out why! http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/review_design_research2.asp Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:30:00 GMT Today, we extended our SAP UI History corner in the Goodies section and added a number of articles from other areas of the site related to visual design and branding as well as UI design. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/ui_history.asp Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:00:00 GMT Today, we extended our selection of quotes with four new quotes. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/quotes.asp Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:00 GMT Today, we added further events in 2010 to our UI events page. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/events.asp Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:00 GMT In addition, we published the second part of desktop motives showing digicam macros and close-ups. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_12.asp Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:00:00 GMT Today, we published the first part of desktop motives showing digicam macros and close-ups. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_11.asp Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:00:00 GMT Today, we also published desktop motives showing dslr macros and close-ups. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_10.asp Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:30:00 GMT Today, we updated our UI events page with further events for 2010 and beyond. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/events.asp Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:30:00 GMT Today, we added one more feature of UI and design people: Hartmut Esslinger. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/people_archive.asp#esslinger Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:30:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Hartmut Esslinger: A Fine Line – How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke