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Updated: May 3, 2012

The Stories section offers a growing selection of articles centered around reports and projects from the UI and graphic design field.

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Young, Mobile, and App-fluent

May 3, 2012: As product manager for one of SAP's hottest mobile apps, Rebekka Koehnen knows the importance of designing software for the "Mobile Natives". She shares her insights.

Interaction 2012 – Again, a UI Design Practitioner's Report

Congress Centre Dublin April 26, 2012: 2011 was a year without any conference visits for our author and, consequently, he did not contribute any new conference reports to the SAP Design Guild Website. In February 2012, however, he had the unexpected opportunity to attend the Interaction 2012 conference in Dublin, Ireland. Here is his "practitioner's" report on it.

Transformative User Experience – Beyond Packaged Design

April 3, 2012: In this article, the authors, Markus Latzina and Joerg Beringer from SAP, discuss the conception of Transformative User Experience and apply it to the user interface itself. They conclude that this is a promising conception for bridging the omnipresent chasm between the levels of content-agnostic operating systems on the one hand, and packaged applications on the other.

Dan Rosenberg on Design

February 15, 2012: In an interview with Paul Baur from SAP Info, entitled "Design as Intuitive as the iPhone", Dan Rosenberg, SAP's former SVP for User Experience discusses product design at SAP and the influence of mobile, Apple, and gamification on enterprise software. Read the interview also on the SAP Design Guild.

Leading Global UX Teams

December 2, 2011: In this article, the authors, Dan Rosenberg, former 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.

SAP's Presence at World Usability Day 2011 in Mannheim, Germany – A Photo Story

November 11, 2011: SAP was a sponsor to the World Usability Day 2011 having the motto, "Designing for social change". The event was held worldwide on November 10, 2011. SAP supported the local event in Mannheim, Germany, as a sponsor. One SAP UX colleague gave a presentation, two further held a workshop, and we provide a few photos thereof.

SAP Helps Apple Keep iPhone Away from Bad Guys – A User Experience Perspective

Janaki Kumar July 5, 2011: 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.

SAP's Presence at CHI 2011 in Vancouver, Canada – A Photo Story

May 9, 2011: SAP was a Champion Sponsor of the CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, held from May 7 to 12, 2011 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. As in previous years, SAP had a booth at the conference. This page presents a couple of photos showing the SAP UX booth, life at the booth, SAP UX participants in CHI panels, and more.

Welcome CHI Attendees to SAP at CHI 2011

May 6, 2011: Join us at CHI 2011! Find out about SAP UX, try StreamWork for free, and meet us in person at our CHI booth (the conference is over).

Janaki Kumar at LUNAR Podcast "Sustainability Design 2.0"

Janaki Kumar February 9, 2011: 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." This title indicates that sustainable design is entering a new phase as it moves from environmental activism to an approach based around a range of improved business processes that make a difference. In the podcast, Janaki, Robert, and Travis discuss how designers can be leading participants in this shift by being aware of all of the concerns of the entire business.

SAP's Presence at World Usability Day 2010 – A Photo Story

November 18, 2010: 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. We also added a page with photos from the local event in Stuttgart, Germany.

DIS 2010 – A UI Design Practitioner's Report

October 13, 2010: 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.

SAP's Presence at DIS 2010 – A Photo Story

August 31, 2010: The DIS 2010 Conference was held in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI from August 16-20, 2010 at the School of Architecture in Aarhus, Denmark. SAP was a sponsor to DIS 2010 and had a recruiting booth at the conference. In this report, we offer some photos from the booth and the event.

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