http://www.sapdesignguild.org/rss/ SAP Design Guild News en-us (c) SAP AG, Germany Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:30:00 GMT http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:30:00 GMT This series of two articles is for readers who want to learn more about how ambient media could be used in a work context and who also like to engage in brainstorming. The second article in the series presents ideas about how the projects that were discussed in part 1 could be transferred to an office environment. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_swf_am_2.asp Wed, 21 Dec 2011 10:00:00 GMT This series of two articles is for readers who want to learn more about how ambient media could be used in a work context and who also like to engage in brainstorming. The first article in the series presents prototypical examples of ambient media conveying awareness information from the DIS 2010 conference in Aarhus, Denmark. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_swf_am_1.asp Tue, 21 Dec 2011 10:00:00 GMT In this article series, our author proposes and roughly sketches an " Employees' Commute Calculator " (ECC), which allows a company's employees to explore the environmental consequences of their commuting behavior in a playful way. Part 2 presents ideas for a more advanced version based on the room metaphor. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_ecc_2.asp Tue, 15 Dec 2011 11:30:00 GMT In this article series, our author proposes and roughly sketches an " Employees' Commute Calculator " (ECC), which allows a company's employees to explore the environmental consequences of their commuting behavior in a playful way. Part 1 of the series presents a simple version of it, the E2C2. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_ecc.asp Wed, 14 Nov 2011 17:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Sneak Preview into interaction-design.org Number Three... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#mads3 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:00:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Helmut Degen and XiaoWei Yuan: UX Best Practices – How to Achieve More Impact with User Experience. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Wed, 7 Dec 2011 14:00:00 GMT In preparation of the upcoming Accessibility edition, we updated three pages in the Accessibility part of the Resources section. These are the Accessibility Glossary, the Accessibility Links and References, and the article Vision and Visual Disabilities – An Introduction. We updated these articles in other places as well, but it is easiest to get to the updated pages by following the link (find the updated pages in the navigation). http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/acc.asp Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:30:00 GMT Today, we added one more new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely A Quick Look at the HCI Encyclopedia... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#hci_enc Fri, 2 Dec 2011 08:40:00 GMT In this article, the authors, Dan Rosenberg, SVP, SAP User Experience, and Janaki Kumar from SAP UX, offer some best-practice recommendations based on their combined experience of more than 40 years in the global UX field. They outline six scenarios for the mission of global UX teams and conclude with a few principles that apply universally. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_kumar_rosenberg.asp Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:30:00 GMT Today, we added another new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely One More Sneak Preview into interaction-design.org... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#mads2 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Bike Speedometers and Some Worst-Case Use Cases (or Scenarios). http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#bike_speedo Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Technology Serves People??? http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#clocks Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely A Sneak Preview into Interaction-Design.Org for SAP Design Guild Readers http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#mads Fri, 11 Nov 2010 13:00:00 GMT The World Usability Day 2011 was held in cooperation with UPA on November 11, 2011 at numerous locations all over the world. In this report, we offer photos from SAP UX activities at the local event in Mannheim, Germany. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_wud2011.asp Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Processing pour " l'art " ! http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#molnar Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely A Matter of (Visual) Perception... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#assi Tue, 27 Sep 2011 12:30:00 GMT In the sixth and final article in his series, our author will look at the " replacing physical objects with virtual (digital) ones " action item. This primarily constitutes a reduction strategy, and he will therefore also look briefly at related reduction strategies. This article has also been added to the new highlight topic about " sustainability " . http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_swf_6.asp Wed, 24 Aug 2010 11:00:00 GMT Today, we added three more features of UI and design people: Gavriel Salvendy, Julie Jacko, and Constantine Stephanidis. All three can also be found on our people list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#people Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:30:00 GMT In a series of six articles having the motto " Designing for a Work Force That Acts More Sustainably " , our author investigates how designers can contribute to making a company's workforce behave more sustainably. In this fifth article in his series, he will look at the action item " using persuasive design/technology " . This article has also been added to the new highlight topic about " sustainability " . http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_swf_5.asp Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:00:00 GMT Today, we added the third new article in a series of three to our UI Design Blinks column, havign the motto " Don't Take my 4:3 Monitor Away from Me - or Perhaps You Can? " . http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#monitor3 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely What Is a Usability Issue? http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#usab_issue Tue, 9 Aug 2011 10:30:00 GMT Today, we added two new articles in a series of three to our UI Design Blinks column, havign the motto " Don't Take my 4:3 Monitor Away from Me - or Perhaps You Can? " . http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks.asp Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:30:00 GMT In this fourth article in his series, Designing for a Workforce That Acts More Sustainably, our author will look at the second of four action items, namely using ambient media to support awareness of remote colleagues. This article has also been added to the new highlight topic about " sustainability " . http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_swf_4.asp Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:00:00 GMT In the summer editorial, our author points readers to two events: Firstly, to the two paper sessions at the DUXU 2011 conference that have been organized by SAP UX members and that appeared already in our SAP UI News; secondly, to the publication of our new highlight topic " Designing for a Sustainable Future " that has been released - already at an early stage - to support one of the two DUXU 2011 sessions, namely the one focusing on sustainability. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_03_2011.asp Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:00:00 GMT We released a new highlight topic to promote the sustainability session with SAP User Experience participation at the DUXU 2011 conference. This highlight topic is on the one hand meant to support the session and to complement it with further articles and information, and on the other to present sustainability-related information on the SAP Design Guild Website in one location for easier access. Because of the DUXU 2011 session, we released the highlight topic already at an early stage, that is, with a relatively small number of articles. We hope to extend the collection in the next months. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/highlight_articles_03/overview_highlight.asp Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:00:00 GMT In June 2011, SAP's Global Trade Services (GTS) version 10 successfully exited ramp-up and became generally available. This is a major achievement for the team since this release is full of break through innovation based on complex customer and requirements, and a thoughtfully redesigned user experience that hides much of this complexity from the end-user. This article tells the story of the user experience team's contribution to this milestone. We added the article also to our SAP User Experience edition. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_kumar_iphone.asp Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:00 GMT In a series of six articles, our author investigates how designers – particularly user interface (UI), user experience (UX), and interaction (IxD) designers – can contribute to making a company's work force behave more sustainably. In this and the following three articles, he looks at the action items that he identified for designers one by one and in more detail. He begins with the first action item, " designing for remote collaboration and communication " . http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_swf_3.asp Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:00 GMT Today, we added six new quotes to our collection of quotes from UI professionals and designers. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/quotes.asp Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:00:00 GMT We finally completed the 10th Anniversary Edition of the SAP Design Guild by adding a recently published article that perfectly fits the edition: The article provides an overview of how the site's design changed over the years, exemplified by home pages. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/dg_history.asp Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:00:00 GMT We also decided to move our article series about how designers can help making a company's work force behave more sustainably from the 10th Anniversary Edition to the design tidbits, because the series has grown bigger than expected. In July, we will also include these articles in an upcoming highlight topic about sustainability. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/sust_swf_1.asp Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:00:00 GMT Today, we published new desktop motives showing various macro shots. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_14.asp Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:30:00 GMT Today, we published the Accessibility Guidelines for SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe. These guidelines are an excerpt from the book " Developing Accessible Applications with SAP NetWeaver " edited by Josef Koeble from 2007. (Scroll down the page to the bottom to find the link to the guideline.) http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/acc.asp Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:00:00 GMT Alzheimer's disease is the most frequent form of dementia. In this article about designing for people with Alzheimer's, the authors first extend on the fact that environmental structures can support cognitive processes. They then describe some examples of how the purposeful design of artifacts support persons with Alzheimer's. Finally, they deal with the specifics of the design in this specific context, pointing out that supporting cognition is just one design goal, and it is a goal with limits. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/design_elderly4.asp Tue, 31 May 2011 11:30:00 GMT In the first part of his article about applying the visualization tool NodeXL to the European Song Contest (ESC) 2011 voting data, our author presents variations of the same graph that illustrate how certain NodeXL features help make the graph less cluttered yet more instructive: He starts with the default global appearance, and then uses NodeXL's autofill feature to apply global changes to edges and vertices based on graph metrics. Finally, he applies dynamic filters to change the graph selectively, with regards to edges, vertices, and filter opacity. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/esc_nodexl_1.asp Tue, 31 May 2011 11:30:00 GMT In the second part of his article, our author will demonstrate how you can assign category colors to edges and vertices. Categories can be assigned in various ways: automatically, manually, or by performing simple calculations or manipulations. Finally, he will show how you can use a map as graph background and thus provide a natural layout for data that has a geographic reference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/design/esc_nodexl_2.asp Mon 23 May 2011 15:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Full Press Snap and Dumb Users Who Do Not Know Their Cameras... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#fps Wed, 18 May 2011 11:30:00 GMT We added two new book presentations to our Books & People page: (1) Yvonne Rogers, Jenny Preece, and Helen Sharp, Interaction Design - Beyond Human-Computer Interaction (3rd Edition) and (2) Arnie Lund, User Experience Management - Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams. The books, and a few more, have also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Tue, 10 May 2011 10:30:00 GMT Today, we also published a photo page for SAP's presence at the CHI 2011 conference that will grow in the course of the conference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_chi2011_sap.asp Tue, 10 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT In a series of four articles, our author discusses how designers - particularly user interface (UI), user experience (UX), and interaction (IxD) designers - can contribute to making a company's work force behave more sustainably. In his second article, he steps back and investigates, which sustainability aspects designers can address in their quest. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/sust_swf_2.asp Fri, 6 May 2011 15:00:00 GMT Join us at CHI 2011! Find out about SAP UX, try StreamWork for free, and meet us in person at our CHI booth. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_chi2011_lp.asp Fri, 6 May 2011 13:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new page on which we collect the design history of the SAP Design Guild Website. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/dg_history.asp Tue, 3 May 2011 09:00:00 GMT Beginning with the redesign in April 2011, we will change the background photo of the Website monthly. Today, we added a new page on which we collect the backgrounds for your reference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/background_2011.asp Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new note from Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ceo.asp Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:30:00 GMT Today, we employed further changes to the design of the SAP Design Guild Website in order to make it more compatible with the www.sap.com company Website. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:00:00 GMT Today, we started making the design of the SAP Design Guild Website more compatible with the www.sap.com company Website. This will be gradual process - so be prepared for further design changes in course of the next months. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:30:00 GMT Today, we published a link to SAP UI Guidelines for mobile devices offered on the SAP Service Marketplace. These are the SAP UI Guidelines for iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and the Android Platform. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/uiguidelines.asp Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:30:00 GMT Five years after the CHI 2006 in Montreal, the CHI conference is returning to Canada and will be held in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, famous for offering some of the most spectecular scenery for a city in the world. Our editorial describes the upcoming CHI 2011 conference, the venue, and SAP User Experience's activities at the conference. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_02_2011.asp Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Missing and Misleading Error Messages from a Bank Statement Printer... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#error1 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:30:00 GMT Today, we published new SAP UI Guidelines for Dashboard Design (find section " Current Public SAP UI Guidelines " ). http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/uiguidelines.asp Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMT At the end of March 2011, the 10th anniversary year of the SAP Design Guild Website will be over, and the Website will celebrate its 11th anniversary. We will also complete the 10th Anniversary Edition in time - or rather, nearly in time, because two articles are still in progress and may not make it into the edition by then. However, we regard this delay only as a minor issue. It reflects that in the real world, not all plans are put into practice as intended. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/editorials/editorial_01_2011.asp Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely Enriching and not so Enriching Complexity. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#complex1 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:30:00 GMT We added a new book presentation to our Books & People page: Bill Moggridge: Designing Media. The book has also been included in our book list. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/book_people/book_people.asp#booke Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:30:00 GMT In his third article about designing for the elderly, our author approaches this topic from a personal point of view, putting the focus on reporting on his own experiences - including experiences with his parents and grandparents and on changes that accompany the aging process. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/design_elderly3.asp Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:00:00 GMT Designing for the elderly has become a prominent topic at UI and design conferences in recent years, but has not yet been covered accordingly on the SAP Design Guild Website. However, we are now gathering pace. Here is our second article from this domain, in which we would like to discuss a number of dilemmas that designers face when they design for elderly people - we view them as walking tightropes. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/design_elderly2.asp Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:00:00 GMT This short series of two articles begins by distinguishing between a sustainable work force and the sustainable behavior of a work force. The latter concept will be the sole subject of this article series, however, and it will also be approached from a designer's point of view. In the remainder of this first article, our author will briefly touch on some of the important factors that determine how sustainably a company's work force is and point out action items for designers. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition11/sust_swf_1.asp Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely The Plagues of Modern Times (1) – Online Software Updates http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#plague1 Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely A Clash of Conceptual Models Leads to Credit Card Hassles... http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#ccc_cch Wed, 16 Feb 2011 09:30:00 GMT We published a new Story reporting the participation of a UX team member in a podcast. Janaki Kumar from SAP User Experience, Palo Alto leads a team of interaction designers who design the Sustainability Suite of products at SAP. On January 12, 2011, Janaki took part in an Icon-o-Cast episode, joining LUNAR's Robert Howard and Travis Lee for a discussion of " Sustainability Design 2.0. " http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/readers/reader_kumar_podcast.asp Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:30:00 GMT Today, we added a new article to our UI Design Blinks column, namely The Blessings of Auto-Complete http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/blinks/ui_blinks_gw_02.asp#auto_comp Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:00:00 GMT Today, we updated our UI events page with further events for 2011 and beyond. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/community/events.asp Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:00:00 GMT Today, we published new winterly desktop motives. http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/desktop/desktop_13.asp